Mr Slater, Gladiator: Genie Street: Ladybird Read it yourself


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Mr Slater Gladiator is book six of Ladybird's Genie Street fiction series. This exciting new ebook contains two short chapter stories for independent readers who are ready and want to read real fiction for the first time. In Mr Slater Gladiator we once more follow Daisy and Tom as they journey to Lampland, and find themselves in the middle of a Gladiator match! Their adventure sees the children rescue Mr Slater and his furry friend, and race two fearsome guards in a chariot race. There is never a dull moment for Tom and Daisy! In the second story - Madame Zarr Circus Star - Tom and Daisy have been given a Special Delivery by Genie Street's postman, Mr Mistry, that they must deliver to Madame Zarr. But the greatest trapeze artist in all of Lampland seems rather familiar. Who could she be? Genie Street is the next step up from Ladybird's Read it yourself Level 4. With short chapters, simple vocabulary and a clear layout, these ebooks will encourage and build confidence when reading. Other stories in this series include Mrs Kramer Dragon Tamer, Mr Chan Rocket Man, Mrs Greene Mermaid Queen, Dr Singh Pirate King and Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor.




Hugo's Runaway Legs


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Hugo's legs have run away. They simply didn't want to stay at home where they just lay about. Hugo's legs just wanted out! Hugo Holt's legs have run away and jumped on the bus! Hugo can't do without them. How on earth will he catch his runaway legs?




Five Minutes to Bed! A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book


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"But Captain, we're not tired yet! We're terrors of the seven seas! We're rough tough noisy pirates! Just five more minutes, please!" Captain Cutlass's crew aren't quite ready for bed yet. What jobs can he find to keep his trusty pirates busy? Why, there's washing to scrub and hats to stitch and cracks in the hull to seal with pitch! With delightful rhyming text, humorous illustrations, and read-along audio narration, Five Minutes to Bed! will help your little darlings go to bed and stay there.




Teatime for Pirates!: A Ladybird Skullabones Island picture book


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"But Captain, what's this on our plates? We don't want this for tea! Sausages aren't pirate food. You don't eat those at sea!" Captain Cutlass's crew don't want to eat their tea so he has to convince them that sausages, carrots, peas and mash will help make them rough tough, noisy pirates. With delightful rhyming text, humorous illustrations and read-along audio narration, Teatime for Pirates! will help make sure every little pirate eats their tea! This enhanced ebook has read-along audio, too! Other titles in the Skullabones Island series from Ladybird Books: Yo-ho-ho (A Ladybird noisy book), A Week of Pirate Tales, All Aboard the Pirate Ship (A Ladybird Lift-the-Flap book), Pirate Playtime (A Ladybird sticker activity book), Pirate Time (A Ladybird clock book), How to be a Skullabones Pirate (A Ladybird sticker activity book), Five Minutes to Bed and Pirate Post




Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas


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A beautifully illustrated collection of new Doctor Who stories, each featuring one of the twelve Doctors on a festive adventure in theTARDIS. Written by six authors and with a full-page colour illustration for each story, these tales are full of magic, mystery, wonder, excitement - and everything else that fans love about a Doctor Who Christmas special.




The Secret History of the Handbag


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From the earliest practical containers to the star handbags of today, this book is a comprehensive gallimaufry of the handbag through the ages.




Scaling Up Compensation


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Miss Magenta, Sweet Inventor: Genie Street: Ladybird Read it yourself


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Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor is book five of Ladybird's Genie Street fiction series. This exciting new ebook contains two short chapter stories for independent readers who are ready and want to read real fiction for the first time. In Miss Magenta Sweet Inventor, Tom and Daisy are needed urgently in Lampland! Miss Magenta has been kidnapped by the evil Count Sourtooth. Tom and Daisy journey to Lampland and must try to help Miss Magenta escape, but will they succeed before Count Sourtooth and his evil goblins see them? In the second story - Mr Moley, Robot Goalie - Tom and Daisy find themselves at a football match in Lampland, but the players are all robots! Genie Street is the next step up from Ladybird's Read it yourself Level 4. With short chapters, simple vocabulary and a clear layout, these ebooks will encourage and build confidence when reading. Other stories in this series include Mrs Kramer Dragon Tamer, Mr Chan Rocket Man, Mrs Greene Mermaid Queen and Dr Singh Pirate King.




Anagram Solver


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Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.




Armouron: Prisoner on Kasteesh


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THE ARMOURON Elite warriors who banded together centuries ago to fight for justice and for freedom. PLANET EARTH Under the control of a huge corporation, led by the power-mad Chairman. THE CADETS Trainee gladiators at the Nu-Topian Academy - where something is very, very wrong. SALT The grizzled old master of the armour workshop, with a secret in his past. THE STORY Set out of the reaches of Earth on planet Kasteesh, home to the lizard creatures. Every generation of the Armouron has a lizard rider in their group, a knight who has a very special relationship with the lizards on Kasteesh. When Snow, one of the orphan cadets, is drawn by an insistent voice in her head to a interplanetary freighter she is overcome and collapses. When she wakes up she finds herself on Kasteesh and right in the middle of a mission to rescue the lizards that are being experimented on by the Perfect Corporation for their amazing telepathic powers.