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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547406282Author Scott O'DellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

Three children and their mother live on a little island in a little cottage shaped like a hat. When their mother goes out searching for yarn, the children of hat cottage promise to be good. They try to be helpful by sweeping the chimney and washing their...

In Rome you can learn about the days of the week while discovering the city: enjoy delicious gelato on Tuesday, ride your scooters past the Colosseum on Thursday, and visit St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday.About the AuthorAshley Evanson is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787012936Author Tom CornellFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Lonely PlanetPublisher Lonely PlanetWeight(grams) 962gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 282mm * 18mm

Rebel Voices: Disruptive Stories from Trailblazing Women - a new Puffin Classics collection, celebrating International Women's Day 2023To me, writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way...

From the authors who wrote and illustrated Ola, Leif the Lucky, and Children of the Northlights comes their collection of Norwegian folktales. First printed in 1938, this selection of timeless stories returns to enchant audiences all over again...

Follow a river from its source to the sea and see how it adapts to its surroundings in this highly photographic non-fiction report by Fiona Macdonald. Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined...

New translation and commentary on the 11th century tale of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan. It is introduced by its author as a microcosm of Baghdad. This work, written in prose but containing numerous poems, is widely hailed among scholars as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761370833Author Lyn LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786570222Author Jen FerozeFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Lonely Planet Global LimitedPublisher Lonely Planet Global LimitedWeight(grams)...

Factology: Ancient Egypt is a fact-packed introduction to this iconic time in history, presented in maps, timelines, diagrams and statistics. Did you know that the pyramids of Giza were once covered in a white casing made of glimmering limestone that was...

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554536597Author Kim BellefontaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Kids Can PressPublisher Kids Can Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448484266Author Janet B. PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 194mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919615707Author Gregory GreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Max ToperPublisher Gregory Grey

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913603021Author Steven SavileFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint BOTH PressPublisher BOTH PressWeight(grams) 129g

Agnes knows she is at home before she even opens her eyes in the morning. The sounds and smells and people swirl around her-she always knows what everyone is up to in the tight-knit apartment building where she lives. But she also knows what it is like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558180Author Beth WalrondFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Little GestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

"An appealing, elegantly designed introduction to another much-maligned species." -Kirkus (starred review)"A fascinating, informative, and inclusive window into a feared and misunderstood species." -Booklist (starred review)This myth-busting addition to...

The true story of Phyllis Webstad and her orange shirt that started the "Orange Shirt Day - Every Child Matters" movement. When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to Residential School for the first time. On her first day at school, she...

A man, his burros, and his books bring joy to children in remote Colombian villages in this inspiring book based on a true story by celebrated picture book creator Jeanette Winter.Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977797967Author Adam GamblePage Count 20Imprint Our World of BooksPublisher Our World of BooksWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 154mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626179592Author Alicia Z KlepeisFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

Join intrepid explorer Benjamin Blog and his inquisitive dog Barko Polo as they travel to one of the world's most fascinating countries: Scotland! The book includes chapters on Scottish history, geography, cities, people, and food, as well as visiting...

Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580891547Author Darrin LundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780545818391Author Allan ZulloFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 145mm * 15mm

"We had been in the cottage for a week when the cormorant was delivered, that October evening." When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626177376Author Emily Rose OachsFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Bellwether MediaPublisher Bellwether Media

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston went on to become a talented...

Explore the stories of fifteen incredible landmarks, from Angkor Wat to Stonehenge to the Colosseum, in this comprehensive illustrated guide. Readers will get to know the people who built these places of wonder, the best ways to visit them and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806298Author Heather SancheFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

On ordinary days, you could see him. A beautiful boy, but small with a smile given only to lilacs growing between broken sidewalks carrying in his pockets a sound. Before Prince became one of the bestselling musicians of all time, he was a boy...

We often know and recognize the skyline of cities but are completely unaware of what is hidden underground: discover the underground city in the Australian desert, learn about Canada's shopping arcades or New York's spider-web-like underground transport...

Imagine over three million square miles of sand dunes that are as tall as a ten-story building. That place is real -- it's the Sahara Desert! Vast, yes! And home to fascinating creatures such as ostriches and fennec foxes as well as amazing plant life...

At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738818839Author Yeonsil YooFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Upfly BooksPublisher Upfly BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783124800Author Kay WoodwardPage Count 112Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

This anthology of alphabetical verse is designed for anybody between four and 104 years of age. Young children will enjoy the sound of the words read to them, and older children will be stimulated to improve and increase their vocabularies. Illustrations...