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Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it's not just for politicians: it's all around us, whether you're buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After...

Here Comes Trouble tells the story of clumsy Trudy Hubble. The trouble is that Trudy is always tripping up and knocking things over TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading...

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

In Danny's Secret Fox a young fox visits the factory late at night. Dad takes a photo of it and Danny cannot forget its magical fiery eyes. When the factory closes down can Danny help the fox? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories...

In Danny's Secret Fox a young fox visits the factory late at night. Dad takes a photo of it and Danny cannot forget its magical fiery eyes. When the factory closes down can Danny help the fox? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories...

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries...

This two-way dictionary (Scots-English/English-Scots) provides: * Modern Scots, with some literary words likely to be met in stories or poems * Notes on how to get the most out of your dictionary * Grammar notes and verb lists * Spelling guidance * Help...

Sugar Plum is a tooth fairy but she's not very good at it! She's always crashing into pillows and dropping teeth. Sugar Plum tries to find a new job, but there aren't any jobs for a clumsy fairy ... then the faries' coins are stolen, and it's up to Sugar...

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

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. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202716Author Joseph RosenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Polish. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary...

One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies,this Routledge Translation Classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline.Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentiethcentury,...

A pocket glossary explaining Yorkshire idioms.Book InformationISBN 9780902920736Author Edward H. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Abson Books LondonPublisher Gemini Books Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858582276Author Carl ChinnFormat PaperbackImprint Brewin BooksPublisher Brewin Books

Engaging decodable stories fully aligned to Letters and Sounds enable your pupils to practise their phonics skills with their favourite characters. Written by Roderick Hunt MBE and illustrated by Alex Brychta, award-winning creators of the Oxford...

Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are six exciting new wordless stories in the Oxford Reading Tree series. They continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. The wordless stories...

Staying with her granny in London, in The War Monkey, Tegan stumbles on a family mystery - a girl called Alice. Was she really killed by a bomb in WWII or is she still alive? Everything depends on a child's toy called Monkey TreeTops Fiction contains a...

In Tin Cat Ant makes a cat using some tin cans and teaches it to do some tricks. How much can Tin Cat learn before he starts to get tired? Cat tries to teach Cog Dog to sit but he won't stay. Will he do as he is told when Nok tells him? Find out in Sit,...

I hear with my little ear...a poem and a story in The Deer and the Earwig. Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as...

Uncover the hidden and often surprising connection between words.Written in a clear and informative style, the more than 8,000 articles reveal the origins of and links between some of the most common English-language words. What is the link between map...

The Child Language Reader provides an introduction to the most important research in child language acquisition and development. Including extensive editorial introductions, which explain key background, assumptions and terminology, and organized into...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Pirates, Pirate Jack and Pirate Jade both want the gold. The Level 4 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics...

The Moon in the Pond is a Brer Rabbit tale from African-American traditional stories. Rabbit tells Bear and Fox that the moon has fallen in the pond. Will they be able to rescue it? This humorous story written by Chris Powling and beautifully...

Everyone is making things for the craft fair in The Squink. Shahnaz wants to make something extra special. But what is a squink and will anyone want to buy one? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and...

The International Bestseller - Featured on BBC Radio 4 Love it or hate it, the exclamation mark has been with us from Beowulf to the spam email - an enthusiastic history for language lovers! Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate...

Colloquial Norwegian provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate...

The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich's most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality and identity are still powerful and...

Cat and Ant are on a day out at the beach with Nok. Nok thinks he sees a grey cloud, but what is it really? Find out in The Seagull. In Nok Gets Homesick, the micro-friends build Nok a new spaceship, but how far will he get? When Nok shows off his...

Chip is surprised in A Knight in Town when the magic key brings them home in the middle of an adventure. Is the adventure really over? Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex...

From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the...

Basic Polish presents concise explanations of grammar with related exercises, to build confidence in using the modern language.Assuming no previous knowledge of Polish, the book's step-by-step approach guarantees a thorough grounding in the basics of...

A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions.The dictionary is based on data from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Mix, Mix, Mix, Bob Bug is let loose in the kitchen! The Level 1+ More Songbirds books consolidate phonics introduced to...

Jack sells his family's cow for five beans. His mum is very cross and she throws the beans away. Overnight a huge beanstalk grows in the garden, what will Jack find at the top of it? This popular story written by Gill Munton and magically illustrated...

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...