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Shulman Mark: Super Colossal Book of Storytime Stckers

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Super-big, super-fun, SUPER COLOSSAL! This is one of the biggest collections of our popular Storytime Stickers series ever, giving kids even more entertainment than before! It’s the princess’s birthday: Find her hidden present. Let the unicorn games begin: Laugh and play with these magical creatures. A Secret Garden: Gather wildflowers on a very special morning. Enter the Magic Forest: The…

Camilleri Andrea: August Heat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut and sat down on top of it. When the beam from Livia's torch shone on his face, he automatically smiled. 'What's in the trunk?' Livia asked. 'Nothing. It's empty.' How could he possibly have told her there was a corpse inside? The lazy, slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is, Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia as they prepare for…

Stone Norman: The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War

Скачать книгу (размер 3 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 712) Аннотация: After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powersthe Americans, the British, and a small band of allieswere caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing armies, and civil wars that sprung from all sides. The Cold War had begun in earnest. In The Atlantic and…

Cookson Paul: The Works: Every Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The Works is 10 years old and this special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom and Pie Corbett. The Works contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape…

Robert W. Bly: The Ultimate Book of Words Students Should Know

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: An indispensable accessory for the autodidact, this petite yet compendious dictionary is packed with hundreds of 50-cent words guaranteed to make you sound smarter — or at the very least, better educated. Articulate your most sublime aspirations, avoid mortification, and scintillate in conversation, from classroom to boardroom to dining room.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince

Скачать книгу (размер 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 109) Аннотация: For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince has captured the hearts and minds of its readers. The whimsical story with a fairy tale touch has sold over 80 million copies in 230 languages. This exciting graphic adaptation features beautiful, new artwork by Joann Sfar. Hand-chosen by Saint-Exupery's French publishers for his literary style and sensitivity to the original,…

Long David: When Did Big Ben First Bong?

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Millions live there, millions more visit each year — but how many really know London? Do you know when Big Ben first bonged — or even who Ben was? Why the River Thames is so-called? Which top Nazi was locked up in the Tower? Or what runs through the more than 50 miles of train-size tunnels which ring the city, stretch further than the Channel Tunnel and lie deeper than the Tube — and, no, the…

Shaw Karl: Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The English aristocrat John Mad Jack Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, Well, the hiccups is gone, by God. An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent…

Zemke Deborah: Super Hero Food Doodles: Oodles of Step-By-Step Super Doodles: Spiral-bound

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Superhero fruits and vegetables are the stars in Deborah Zemke's latest doodle fest. With with oodles of step-by-step super doodles, kids of all ages can turn mild-mannered fruits and vegetables into super-charged super foods. One small tomato transforms into «The Tomatonator,» big, bold, and delicious; an onion becomes an «Allium Alien»; an ear of corn becomes «Colonel Kernels.» An appetizing…

Wright Robin: Doodle Bug!

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Each page features inspiring designs to copy — from aliens and robots to dragons and monsters — as well as space for children to draw their own doodles. The book features a friendly Doodle Bug, to help guide children through the pages, as well as handy introduction pages to teach children about letters and numbers. The reader will also learn about shape, scale, shading and 3D, to help them to…

John Le Carre: Our Kind of Traitor

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young…

Barner Bob: Walk the Dog: A Parade of Pooches from A to Z

Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Bob Barner's colorful collage illustrations; a bouncy, fun-to-read-aloud text; and bonus information about each breed make this book a playful introduction to man's (and kid's) best friend. SALES HANDLE: Brings this lively, energetic story to a new audience of babies and toddlers with bright, friendly colors and simple, rhyming text. HOW WILL THIS TITLE BE DISTINCTIVE: A unique combination of…

New York in Photographs

Скачать книгу (размер 259 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 52) Аннотация: Titles in Barron's brand-new series of Art Portfolios each present 24 stunning reproductions of memorable works from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enlightening descriptive texts supplement these large reproductions, each of which is true to its original artwork. Pictures are printed on heavy matte-coated paper and are easily removable from its portfolio, which makes…

Willis Jeanne: Sing a Song of Bottoms!

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Join Jeanne Willis in the funniest talent show ever. In a fabulous rhyming text, meet bears with baggy bottoms, pigs with perky pinky ones and peacocks who love to put theirs on display. Perfect for reading aloud and guaranteed to cause fits of giggles, one thing's for sure — whoever is the winner, bottoms are top! This title is from the dynamic duo behind Bottoms Up!

Schwarz Viviane: There Are No Cats in This Book

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: The interactive cats are back, but not for long! They're eager to go off to see the world. So will someone please help them get out of the book? Our lovable feline friends Tiny, Moonpie, and Andre have returned, and this time they're filled with the spirit of adventure: they want to go off to explore the world! They have their suitcases packed and are ready to set out, but can't get out of the…

Downer Jim: Timmy the Tug

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames & Hudson is publishing a children's poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years. Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer's story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy's escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas. Downer's…

Jon J. Muth: Zen Ghosts

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner! When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a…

Mayer Mercer: Jack and the Beanstalk

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Illustrated in full color. Little Critter appears as Jack in this simple retelling of the story of the boy who swaps his cow for a bag of magic beans.

Anatomica: The Complete Home Medical Reference

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The best-selling Anatomica, now completely revised and updated, is a complete medical reference for the home. Organised thematically, the main part of the book covers major body locations, systems, health issues, and diagnostic techniques, from the head, neck, and skin, to infectious diseases and behavioural disorders. Detailed explanations written by a team of medical experts cover the role and…

America: A Visual History

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Life America tells the story of the country's extraordinary history in pictures, often contrasting the past and present — the then and now. Before there were the buildings, there was the land — and in the first section Life's editors travel the country exploring what was there before the coming of man. From the heights of Denali to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the Virginia coast when it…