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*** BILL ODDIE READS GOOSE*** When Sophie meets Goose on a trip to the park, they soon become inseparable. An enchanting story about an unusual and heart-warming friendship. AGES: 3-4 AUTHOR: Laura Wall has been exhibiting her art in galleries around the Southwest of England since she was a teenager and is well-known for her series of paintings called 'Love at the Seaside'. You can often find her in bookshops, or on the beach getting her next bit of inspiration. SELLING POINTS: * Loveable, humorous character * Bold, colourful illustrations * Heart-warming and humorous stories * Read alone or share at storytime * Fabulous, collectable series
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive ...
Featuring loveable character, Goose, from award-winning artist Laura Wall's popular picture book series, these bright, bold board books ensure toddlers have lots of fun as they learn numbers and colours.
In this hilarious, adventure-filled fantasy set in a city where almost everyone can fly, a girl discovers she has a newfound power: she can become invisible. She soon teams up with a belligerent boy to figure out who and what she is.
*** BILL ODDIE READS GOOSE*** When Sophie meets Goose on a trip to the park, they soon become inseparable. An enchanting story about an unusual and heart-warming friendship. AGES: 3-4 AUTHOR: Laura Wall has been exhibiting her art in galleries around the Southwest of England since she was a teenager and is well-known for her series of paintings called 'Love at the Seaside'. You can often find her in bookshops, or on the beach getting her next bit of inspiration. SELLING POINTS: * Loveable, humorous character * Bold, colourful illustrations * Heart-warming and humorous stories * Read alone or share at storytime * Fabulous, collectable series
It's Goose's birthday, and Sophie is throwing him a party... but where has he gone? An engaging story, with simple text and bright, bold, humorous illustrations to captivate young readers.Another delightful story in the fantastic series of stories about a heart-warming - and unusual - friendship, from award-winning artist, Laura Wall.
An enchanting story about an unusual and heart-warming friendship. AGES: 3-4 + AUTHOR: Laura Wall has been exhibiting her art in galleries around the Southwest of England since she was a teenager and is well-known for her series of paintings called 'Love at the Seaside'. You can often find her in bookshops, or on the beach getting her next bit of inspiration. SELLING POINTS: * Loveable, humorous character * Bold, colourful illustrations * Heart-warming and humorous stories * Read alone or share at storytime * Fabulous, collectable series
Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as integrated halves of a single whole. In it, Humboldt espoused the idea that, while the universe of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty and order, the very idea of the whole it composes, are human achievements: cosmos comes into being in the dance of world and mind, subject and object, science and poetry. Humboldt’s science laid the foundations for ecology and inspired the theories of his most important scienti...
These simple, sequencing stories, featuring Sophie and Goose from Laura Wall's popular picture book series, are specially written for toddlers to encourage those all-important routines.In toddler-friendly board book formats, these shorter Goose stories are excellent for encouraging a love of books and reading from an early age.
In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.