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Daniel is disappointed when his mum buys him a robot dog in Micro the Metal Dog. He wants a real dog, not a metal dog like Micro. Will Daniel change his mind if Micro learns to act like a real dog? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality...

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...

Meet Grace Barry in Grace the Pirate. Grace is a wild young girl; she is captured by pirates and marooned on a desert island. But nothing can stop Grace for long... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore...

'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read' Rebecca Gowers* * * * * *From the bestselling author of Born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898703627Author Josef PieperFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 165mm * 6mm

Meet Scrapman in Scrapman. Scrapman doesn't know who he is, but how can he find out? Especially as Winston hasn't given him a very good brain... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own...

Meet Scrapman in Scrapman. Scrapman doesn't know who he is, but how can he find out? Especially as Winston hasn't given him a very good brain... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In The Seven Kids, the bad fox comes to call when Mum's at the shops. The Level 2 More Songbirds phonics books revise all...

The True Performing Of It places the two writers side by side and examines the resultant analogies in their work that spring from this positioning. After a teasing prologue, the book begins by reflecting on the significance of Dylan's remarks on...

In Twice Upon a Time, three mysterious old women bestow magic on Will and Courtney, but things don't go according to plan. You've never read fairy tales quite like these. Will they end happily ever after? Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short...

In Twice Upon a Time, three mysterious old women bestow magic on Will and Courtney, but things don't go according to plan. You've never read fairy tales quite like these. Will they end happily ever after? Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short...

Gods of Thunder retells two myths about gods. The first features the Norse god, Thor, who finds that someone has stolen his magic hammer and he needs to get it back before the ice giants invade! The second is about the Roman god, Vulcan, who is thrown...

This is the new edition of Linguistics: An Introduction. It is a bestselling introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. This reworked edition features: -new chapters on sign languages, writing, and text and...

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In...

I am the fastest! I am the best! I should have a medal to wear upon my chest! chants Frog in Fast Frog. Frog likes being the best at things, but when he decides he wants to be the fastest he has to find new ways to beat the competition. TreeTops Fiction...

Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a...

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. Dani...

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. Dani...

English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through...

English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through...

Part of the Modern History for Modern Languages SeriesFrance since 1815 provides an accessible overview of the major socio-political changes in France during this period. Designed for area studies students studying French, it presents the historical...

Patrick Penn tries to do the right thing but when he becomes too absorbed in inventing things go wrong in The Mean Dream Wonder Machine. The real problems begin when he decides to improve Professor Scriffle's brilliant latest invention TreeTops Fiction...

Man Meets Metal provides an introduction to ancient Britain, by introducing children to the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does...

Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with this fantastic story featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. The micro-friends rip-jump to an apparently normal-looking dimension. But things turn...

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from...

Petey is a story about the future, where house robots are designed to do everything their human masters tell them. But one day, Sophie and Sam's robot develops a mind of his own... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

The Level 2 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 and More Stories B offer a predictable...

How can Mrs Green feed her cat in No Milk Today? Level 5 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds oo as in moon, oo as in good, ow as in down, oi as in coin and soft c as in dice. The focus phonics in this...

How can Mrs Green feed her cat in No Milk Today? Level 5 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds oo as in moon, oo as in good, ow as in down, oi as in coin and soft c as in dice. The focus phonics in this...

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new robot micro-friend, Eight. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. The Excelsa is...

Football is Sean's world in In the Shadow of the Striker. He can't wait for Saturdays when he plays for his team and he wouldn't swap a ticket for the match between City and United for anything. Suddenly, Sean's life turns upside down. Why do his mum 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...

Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage...

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...

In King Arthur Needs You!, YOU get to choose what happens next! Where will your adventure take you? Are you brave enough to talk to a dragon or face the giant? Chucklers is a series of funny novels, short stories, anthologies and comics that make...

A Textbook in Classical Tibetan is the first comprehensive course book in the Classical Tibetan language written in English. The textbook describes the grammar of pre-16th-century Classical Tibetan works for beginners and students of intermediate level...

In Waiting for Goldie Danny's grandad is in hospital, so Danny must record the time that Grandad's champion racing pigeon, Goldie, returns from the race. What will Danny do when Goldie doesn't come back? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality...

A Communicative Grammar of English was first published in 1975, since then the book has established itself as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanations. It is now available in this fully revised and redesigned...

The micro-friends, and Nok, are on a school trip to the woods. They shrink for some micro-fun, and find a strange-looking object hidden in some leaves. Find out what they discover in An Amazing Find. The friends find themselves on board Nok's lost...

Winner of the Swedish National Language Council's Erik Wellander Prize, 2003Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thorough...