A sunny garden hums, buzzes, creeps and crawls with life... Peep inside to see what you can find. A beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture book for very little children with lots of flaps to lift, holes to peep through and animals and insects to spot. Children can peek at the insects buzzing beneath flower petals, spot a sleepy toad hiding in a logpile and lift a lily pad in the pond to...

Kolejna komiksowa gratka dla fanów Królowej kryminału! W miasteczku Nassecombe w Devonie przygotowywany jest wakacyjny festyn. Jego główną atrakcją ma być „Polowanie na mordercę” – zabawa polegająca na poszukiwaniu sprawcy fikcyjnego morderstwa na podstawie ukrytych w parku śladów i wskazówek. Scenariusz „Polowania” podejmuje się opracować znana pisarka kryminałów Ariadna Oliver,...

Skrzaty z Zaczarowanego Lasu mają talent do pakowania się w kłopoty, ale na szczęście są odważne i pomysłowe. Osiłek i Ważniak znajdują dzban, z którego wychodzi... dżin. Jak wiadomo, każdy dżin musi spełniać życzenia osoby, która go uwolniła, jednak ta magiczna istota ma z tym duże problemy. Dlaczego tak się dzieje? Aby rozwiązać zagadkę i pomóc nieporadnemu dżinowi, Smerfy będą...

A sneaky fish learns a lesson in crime and punishment in the bestselling, multiple award-winning sequel to I Want My Hat Back. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal 2014 From the creator of the bestselling I Want My Hat Back and Sam and Dave Dig a Hole comes the story of a tiny fish who proudly wears a blue hat. It fits him perfectly. Problem is, trouble could be following...

Come along with Peppa on her holiday adventures! Join Peppa and her family as they visit lots of exciting places in this sticker-filled book. Featuring over 200 stickers, little hands can help Peppa pack her suitcase, choose souvenirs from the souvenir shop and get ready for a day on the beach! With twelve different places to visit, it's the perfect book to keep Peppa fans busy.

All aboard this exciting addition to the much-loved That’s not my... series. Babies and toddlers will love touching the textured patches as they look at buses with shiny doors, squashy bumpers and sparkly lights. The bright pictures and textures to stroke are designed to help develop sensory and language awareness.

Dyson has become a byword for great design, brilliant invention and global success. Now, James Dyson, the entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure. 'By continually challenging ourselves, investing in the future and experimenting, we can continue to make the future. We must never stop. Never, for one...

Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to...

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series for children aged 3-11 learning English as a foreign or second language. The series includes traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction. Beautifully illustrated and carefully written by language learning experts, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help...

From the forageable to the bizarre, this book is an introduction to 50 of the fungi kingdom’s most interesting mushrooms. Mushrooms have existed for millennia, which can make it overwhelming to dip into mycology. Used throughout human history for food, medicine and expanding our consciousness, fungi have shaped the planet and the past, appearing everywhere from fairy tales and health-food...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in...

Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III remains...

'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life' Daily Telegraph You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day...

Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear here for the first time. Like their author, Crowley's stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in...

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford...

Europe's cathedrals are magnificent. They outstrip palaces and castles. They are the most sensational group of structures anywhere in the world - which everyone should 'see before they die'. They are also hugely popular, most of them absolutely packed. They are humankind's greatest creations. In Europe's 1oo Best Cathedrals, Simon Jenkins has travelled the continent - from Chartres to York,...

Kolejny tom kolekcji „Najwybitniejsi Naukowcy”, prezentującej postaci ludzi nauki, których badania przyczyniły się do rozwoju ludzkości w różnych dziedzinach – medycynie, przyrodzie, fizyce czy astronomii. Jego bohaterem jest Galileusz, astronom, eksperymentator, dociekliwy i uparty badacz, którego obserwacje potwierdziły to o czym ponad 100 lat wcześniej pisał Mikołaj Kopernik – że Ziemia...

From the  NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLING  author, Rebecca Yarros, comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to  TIKTOK SENSATION  and  RADIO TWO BOOK CLUB  pick  Fourth Wing . . . Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College, Violet included. But Threshing was only the first...

Головні герої два друга Білчик і Ведмідь, які проводять дні разом без нудьги. Вони ходять на риболовлю, разом з кроликами навчаються хоровим співам, купаються в річці, кидають виклик бурі та багато іншого. Книга складається з 20 самостійних історій, які зручно читати з дитиною та поринати у неймовірні пригоди. Кожна розповідь здатна захопити уяву та подарувати світлі теплі емоції.