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Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can't be identified - LBJ (the letters stand for Little Brown...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912611324Author Claire HewsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Practical Pre-School BooksPublisher Practical Pre-School Books

Follow the narrator as he takes us through the good and bad aspects of micro-organisms in this fun rhyming poem by Sam McBratney, explaining that while these unseen bugs can ruin food and make us ill, they also keep our world under control, by rotting...

Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world will die along with them, what cultural riches, what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855032293Author Jenny MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint LDAPublisher LDA

A simple retelling of the Easter story, with 60 colourful rebus stickers for children to fill in the gaps in the story. Beautifully illustrated by Norman Young.About the AuthorHeather Amery was born and brought up in Bath, Somerset. Heather has written...

Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed by WJECHelp every student to develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best with the market-leading series for...

Working Welsh offers a new approach to building up and consolidating learners' fluency and confidence, focusing on the mechanics - the words and phrases that build and drive sentences and make them fit together.200 Welsh words and phrases are listed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122546Author Steve PalinFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 168mm *...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier...

Providing plenty of practice questions for children to work through, this English skills book helps to build confidence and improve English skills at Key Stage 2. Children can use this book at home for SATS revision, and to build on topics covered in the...

'I couldn't put it down, read it cover to cover in a day... A fabulous chilling thriller.' NetGalley reviewer, A mysterious figure. A whispering community. A deadly secret... ...

'Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which - as both common sense and experience show - happiness is impossible. Therefore: happiness depends at least partly on good grammar.'So...

Details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.About the AuthorBefore becoming Director of Education for The Olympus Academy Trust, a cross-phase...

When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'?This superbly...

'This "essential cornucopia" aims to inspire you to use uncommon words in their original contex'- BooksellerEver wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words...

The Extended Project Student Companion covers project management skills, research skills, presentation skills, report writing and includes checklists, questions for mentors and project plans. Everything a student needs for their AQA Extended Project...

Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage...

Fluff the kitten is missing from Apple Tree Farm! Young children will love finding out what happens in this charming short story, specially written for new readers.About the AuthorHeather Amery was born and brought up in Bath, Somerset. Heather has...

Level: KS3 Subject: Science Targeted practice questions covering the Year 9 science curriculum Research proves that repeated practice is more effective than repeated study, which...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and...

Providing plenty of practice questions for children to work through, this English skills book helps to build confidence and improve English skills at Key Stage 2. Children can use this book at home for SATS revision, and to build on topics covered in the...

King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's...

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet,...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: Physics Suitable for the 2024 exams Targeted practice questions...

The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 5C contains three levels of differentiated challenge built-in to each lesson as well as extra consolidation and extension activities to ensure rapid progression for every child. The Busy Ant Maths Pupil Book 5C...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855033825Author Veronica BirkettFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint LDAPublisher LDA

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them, and indeed learn to communicate with them? This highly...

Do you want to communicate easily and freely in French?Master French grammar and broaden your vocabulary with your very own French Tutor. This contemporary interactive workbook features 200 activities across a range of grammar and vocabulary points with...

A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-have for all history and geography enthusiasts and...

Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom is an inspiring collection of some of her best quotes on love, style, life, art and more, and celebrates the Mexican icon's immense legacy.Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and influential painters of the...

Mop the puppy is accidentally left behind on the newly-restored steam train. Can Rusty the dog save the day? Young children will love finding out what happens in this charming short story, specially written for new readers.About the AuthorHeather Amery...

The phenomenal bestseller, The Wonky Donkey, is now a board book with a super fun "Hee haw!" sound that children will love! Who ever heard of a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey?...

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,...

Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty - not least his own.Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. When...

Timely advice for a milestone birthdaySo what if you're turning 60? After all, with age comes wisdom - and more excuses to share your valuable life lessons with literally anyone who will listen. Hey, at least you're not 70! Packed with celebratory...

When Zoe visits Unicorn Island she mistakenly opens the Box of Winds, unleashing a terrible storm over the island. Can Zoe and her best friend Astra, the fairy unicorn, stop the winds before it's too late? An exciting story addition to the Fairy Unicorn...

Level: KS3 Subject: Science Targeted practice questions covering the Year 8 science curriculum Research proves that repeated practice is more effective than repeated study, which...