The classic fairy tale. Rapunzel is stolen from her parents by a witch and forced to live in a tower. Every day, the witch climbs up Rapunzel's hair into the tower. Then one day, a prince rides by... Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills…
The irrepressible Monster is back--and this time, he wants to see the world. Mrs. Mo is busy painting, so Monster decides to go alone. He's packed everything he needs: an umbrella, a tea pot, a trumpet . . . and his globe, of course! But when his adventure becomes bigger than he expected, Monster wishes Mrs. Mo had come after all--and brought lunch.
he's smelly, but he's very brave.
This series explores the world of machines and takes a detailed look at how they operate. Highly technical and realistic artwork is presented with cutaways and exploded views to help children understand how various components work.
Let Sparky show you the way in this definitive guide to the 50 most important inventions of the last 1,000 years, from eyeglasses to the ever-present internet itself. The little lightning-bolt character talks children through the text, providing quips and comments on the science, context and historical development of technology (fancy getting burnt at the stake for heresy?) and the spreads are …
The garden's in trouble! Slimy Super-Slugs led by the evil Cyber Snail are headed for the vegetable patch. T.T. jumps out of the tree and out of his shell. With a backflip and a bump he lands in a leaf-pile. There's a clank and a clonk, a rustle and a bonk. He is ready for action in his turbo shell with super powered jets - he is Turbo Tortoise - superhero! Can Turbo Tortoise and his trusty sid…
This book will help budding young programmers design their own games and animation sequences. Learn how to plot out a game, design animated characters and check the code for bugs, then hop online to try out your new skills on the companion website. Let's get coding! Kids Get Coding is a fantastic, hands-on resource for anyone looking to get started with coding. The eight books cover key area…
This book will help budding young programmers discover the technology in the world around them. Learn how computers play a big part in our everyday lives, controlling our cars, traffic lights, shopping and money, robots and much more, invent your own programs for everyday situations, then hop online to try out your new skills on the companion website. Let's get coding! Kids Get Coding is a f…
Discover the history of computers and coding, from Ada Lovelace's initial idea of computer programming to today's coding languages like Scratch, Python, Javascript, and more, in this Level 2 nonfiction reader featuring photographs, diagrams, fun facts, and strong visual clues. What exactly is a computer? How do they work? What is a code? What are the different coding languages and how are th…
Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah…
Offers information about all eighty-eight constellations of the northern and southern skies and provides simple star charts for easy identification.
Provides comprehensive coverage of the key skills and techniques to support you throughout course. Following the key stages of the creative process from the development of a project to the final outcome, it is the only textbook fully matched to the Cambridge IGCSE and O Level syllabuses.
Providing clear and detailed support for teachers to enable them to use the resources easily and flexibly in the classroom
Harum Scarum is the biggest, baddest, hairiest, scariest wolf in the city, and he loves to frighten people! But after a really good day of frightening little children, old people, and even a builder, Harum Scarum gets back home and finds he's lost his teddy.
Mighty rockets are good at zoom, zoom, zooming, 5 4 3 2 1 and lift off! Blasting into space. Come on a fantastic adventure to the moon and deep into space. This exciting book is packed with amazing astronauts, super space vehicles and losts more!
Babies and toddlers will delight in this picturebook full of trucks, lorries, diggers and tractors, with simple easy-to-follow annotation.
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The Three Little Pigs leave home to build a house of their own, but a big, bad wolf has other plans for the brothers! Discover what happens next in this retelling of the classic fairy tale.
Countess Olenska, having suffered the collapse of her marriage in Europe, arrives in New York. Newland Archer anticipates marriage to May Welland, the countess's cousin, but eventually falls in love with the countess. He discovers the real anguish of loving outside of society's rules.
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812.
When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses and fears in their lives.
lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a youn…
The concluding volume of master storyteller Tad Williams' long-awaited return to epic fantasy by James Barclay.