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Roald Dahl
A Penguin Readers ELT graded reading series of your favorite Roald Dahl characters and stories! Designed for learners of English aged 7+
With carefully adapted text, illustrations, language practise activities…
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A Penguin Readers ELT graded reading series of your favorite Roald Dahl characters and stories! Designed for learners of English aged 7+.
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In this rotsome twist on the classic poem, the Enormous Crocodile gets up to no good on Christmas Eve!
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all were in bed, When…
Joan Aiken
Eight wonderfully imaginative modern fairy tales from the mind of Joan Aiken, now back in print after 30 years
Join master storyteller Joan Aiken and illustrator extraordinaire Quentin Blake for…
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The Complete Roald Dahl Classic Collection offers readers Roald Dahl's cannon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by…
"From Willy Wonka's scrumptious candy to Matilda's chocolate cake, Roald Dahl has been creating mouth-watering food in his books for decades. Now there is a ... cookbook featuring fifty recipes…
"Celebrate Easter with this gloriumptious lift-the-flap board book! Inspired by the wonderful world of Roald Dahl, this rhyming board book has flips filled with delumptious fun and shiny eggs inside!"--
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Matilda uses her newfound powers to expel the evil, child-hating headmistress Miss Trunchbull from school and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Prepare for Halloween by learning how to recognize the tricks and treats of witches, ghosts, and candymakers.
"Christmas is the most fizz-whopping time of the year, filled with grand feasts, good tidings, and gifts that make you feel like you won a golden ticket."--
Michael Rosen
A heartbreakingly honest account of a father’s grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children’s Laureates.
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Former Children’s Laureates Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a personal and uniquely affecting collection of poems about migration.What you leave behindWon’t leave your mind…
David Walliams
The sparkling debut children’s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country, with sparkling new cover look to tie in with later books.
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Celebrate mom in this Mother's Day board book from Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.
A read-aloud read-over-and-over-again rhyming board book that celebrates the brilliance of moms everywhere. Perfect for mothers…
Joanna Carey
Quentin Blake is a collaboration between Tate and the House of Illustration, published to coincide with the gallery’s inaugural exhibition; Inside Stories, a landmark show by Quentin Blake.
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Quentin Blake
A remarkable collaboration - that brings together giants of the picture book world - to create a funny, anarchic and utterly delightful picture book. A classic of the future.
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"On a hill above the valley there was a wood. In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr…
The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look.
These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting…
"To pay Mrs Twit back for the worms…
Dive into the magical world of Quentin Blake, with 17 spectacular stories perfect for bedtime listening. From the bottomless pockets of Angelica Sprocket to Fantastic Daisy Artichoke (who isn’t quite…
Jenny Uglow
A fascinating, fully illustrated overview of the life and work of one of the world’s best-loved illustrators, Quentin Blake, celebrating more than seventy years of work that has redefined illustration.
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from…
John Yeoman
A beautiful edition of Quentin Blake’s Magical Tales, the wonderfully illustrated collection of more than a dozen tales of magical fun and mystery from all over the globe.
Mr Hilaire Belloc
This omnibus of Belloc’s stories is a feast of delightful tales told in rhyme - all with a dramatic moral twist in the tail. Are you prone to pulling faces…
A never-before published personal account of the work of the inimitable author and illustrator Quentin Blake, providing an insight by the artist himself into his own practice and his famous…
Sir Quentin Blake
Angie, Ollie, Simona, Mario and Eric are five fantastic friends, each of whom has an unusual ability. Disaster strikes on a day out to the countryside but, working together and…
Quentin Blake,Will Self
Bringing together two formidable talents for the first time, this literary and artistic collaboration on the theme of night travel features original artwork by Blake (known for his work with…
!Una deliciosa celebracion del arte de envejecer para que disfruten ninos y jovenes de 4 a 114 anos! A delicious celebration of the art of aging for kids and adults…
Children will have fun counting to ten in this rhyming picture book about poor Mr. Magnolia who has lost one of his shoes.
Three Little Owls is a charming rhyming story by the Italian artist Emanuele Luzzati, and presented here in an English version by John Yeoman and with gorgeous new illustrations by…
A quirky, goodhearted tale of a pet bird that finds freedom in an unexpected way from a bestselling author/illustrator and winner of the Kate Greenaway medal. Full color.
The title was suggested by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. I have many, often quite serious, pictures of people drawing animals or (more often) birds. Here they are…
I had an idea about doing some drawing of costume, called Modest Attire, and then somehow it divided itself into two. One is this -improvised costumes of material of no…
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