Catherine and Laurence Anholt's Big Book of Families


Book Description

Packed with tales of families of every kind, this book is about big families and small families; busy families and noisy families; happy families and fighting families; and families at home and families on holiday. Whatever a family is like, it is featured in this book




Big Book of Families


Book Description

Poems, letters, and illustrations celebrate the entire family, including grandmothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. Suggested level: primary.




Sophie and the New Baby


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Sophie waits eagerly for the arrival of the new baby, but when her brother is born, she finds that her own role in the family has changed.




Harry's Home


Book Description

When Harry goes away from home for the very first time to stay with his grandad on his farm, he feels a bit funny. The countryside is very quiet, so different from Harry's home in the city. But then Grandad has a clever idea ...Young children and adults alike will enjoy sharing and talking about this much-loved classic picture book all about the importance of home - wherever that is.




Chimp and Zee


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Chimp and Zee go to Jungletown with Mumkey to buy some bananas. But Chimp and Zee think shopping is boring and start to monkey about. They play hide-and-seek with Mumkey, and hide in her banana basket on top of a big grey stone. But the stone starts to wobble, then gets up and walks away!




One World Together


Book Description

I want a friend but who will I choose? Take a trip around the world, meet children from lots of different places and peep into their lives. This is a delightful story about friendship across nations and cultures, in which one small child visits nine different countries to find a friend - and ends up being friends with ALL the children he meets. Along the way he discovers how children live in other countries and the things they enjoy doing - showing both how their lives are different, and how many of the things children enjoy are the same throughout the world. The countries featured are: USA, Brazil, China, Russia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan and Morocco




Billy and the Big New School


Book Description

A new edition with a new cover design and new ISBN of a picture book telling of a little boys experience of starting at a new school, just like the baby bird he has been looking after must leave his nest for the big world. Illustrated by Catherine Anholt.




Babies Love Books


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Babies love books!




All about You


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A series of questions introduces words for feelings, clothing, food, animals, daily activities, and more.




The Hypnotist


Book Description

WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2017 Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South. He has certain skills, honed over his lifetime, that he mostly keeps hidden. Skills in hypnotism and mind control . . . Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer, hired as a farm-hand, and as carer for the farmer's wife. But Pip is black. The farmer and his wife are white. And this is 1960s America, where race defines you and overshadows everything. As racial tensions reach boiling point with a danger closer to home and more terrifying than either thought possible, Jack and Pip's lives become inextricably linked. And Jack's hypnotic skills are called on as never before . . .