Soggy the Bear


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There's a Bear in Your Book


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A new interactive adventure from the bestselling author of There's a Monster in Your Book—perfect for bedtime! YAAAWN! A sleepy little bear is in YOUR book! Can you help Bear get ready for bed? This warm, gentle adventure combines interactive fun with a night-time routine to help little ones wind down before they go to bed. Kids can help give Bear a bubble bath, rock Bear like a baby, and help Bear count sheep—all while being lulled to sleep alongside their new friend. Tom Fletcher is one of Britain's bestselling children's authors (in addition to being a rock star!), and his YouTube videos have been viewed tens of millions of times.




You Call That a Nose?


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While the Garbage Gang is out exploring the trash dump, they find a lost little girl. The gang is curious about the human's senses, and as they take a closer look they say, "You call that a nose?" They gang helps the lost girl use her senses to find her dad, and in the end, their question is answered.




Bonnie's Heart


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This story is about two strangers, both emotionally scarred and embittered by the events of their past. They are thrust together in a wilderness survival setting over which they had absolutely no control. Their survival demanded that they work together as a team.




What's with the Long Naps, Bears?


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While the Garbage Gang is out exploring the trash dump, they meet a bear named Otto. When Otto explains that bears hibernate, the gang wonders, "What's with the long naps, bears?" But the gang learns that bears aren't the only animals that hibernate, and their question is soon answered.




The Last Polar Bear


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The earth appears to be getting warmer and the polar ice cap is melting. The ozone layer is receding. The sky is about to tear wide open and the results will be devastating. This is the story of Lucy, Whitey and Thomas the Inuit, three teenage orphans who run away from home in a beat up school bus named the Pequod, then take off to find The Far North and hopefully prevent a worldwide environmental catastrophe. Saving the world however, may prove to be far easier than saving their best friend as Lucy struggles to understand the loss of her family, and wonders about the meaning of her own very complicated life.




Ganymede's Cup


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GANYMEDES CUP reveals a palimpsest that exposes the inextricable relationship between human beings and the ties that bind them to a world where the lines that separate good and evil are not only porous but also entwined. Stephen Lawrence, an intern with a prestigious NewYork firm, finds that he is a twenty-fifirst century Ganymede and cup-bearer to the gods of commodity culture, gender identity, and stem cell research. The Twin Towers loom large in the background as Stephen tries to maintain his ethical standards in the midst of a chaotic, consumer-driven world that grasps the innocent and ascends with them to the twenty-first century Mount Olympus of cultural consumerism.




Bear Hugs


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Martin hasn't known Eric long, but he thinks Eric is awesome. The extent of Eric's awesomeness becomes clear when their special magic awakes Eric's shapeshifting ability. All Eric needed was someone to hug him properly; he needed his sidekick.




Exploding The Creativity Myth


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Karl Lagerfeld's description of his sunglasses as a 'Burqa for my eyes' drew a huge amount of commentary. But what was going on within that phrase? Why was it deemed original and contentious and what can it tell us about creativity? Taking us through cliché, metaphor, analogy, neologism and surrealism, amongst other creative tropes, Tony Veale offers a comprehensive guide to the actual processes behind linguistic creativity. By grounding his approachable examples in easy to replicate methods, the book is perfect as a resource for individual creative exploration. Anyone with an open mind and a computer and a desire to learn about how we creatively say things with words will love this book.Written by an expert in natural language generation, this deceptively simple book offers powerful tools for reconceptualising creativity.