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Bahrain, 1970. After a summer spent with her family, fifteen-year-old Anna is flying back to boarding school in England when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and taken to the Jordanian desert. Demands are issued. If they are not met, the terrorists will blow up the plane, killing all hostages. The heat becomes unbearable; food and water supplies dwindle. All alone, Anna begins to face the possibility that she may never see her family again. Inspired by true events in the author’s life, this is a story about ordinary people facing agonizing horror with courage and resilience. Includes Q&A with the author.
Dr Molly's medicine case is the best (and MOST MAGICAL) in the whole world - it has EVERYTHING in it to make anyone feel better! Can you help her find just the right cure and heal all her patients? Molly LOVES playing dress up. Today she is going to be ... Dr Molly! And her surgery is really very busy - there are lots of patients to see: a sneezy polar bear, a clumsy crocodile and one very croaky pelican. Molly just needs one thing ... her very special, MAGICAL Medicine Case! In this brilliantly interactive book, open Molly's case, look in the little pockets and help her find just the right cure to soothe all her patients back to perfect health!
The familiar frenzy of mother getting her child ready for school is warmly portrayed in this comforting tale. Full color.
Ollie Otter is left with Grandma for the night, as his parents have to go away. As expected he is anxious, but Mum gives him her glove to keep and promises she'll be back after just one sleep. Time soon flies by and before he realises it, Mum and Dad are back.
At the end of the long Arctic winter, a polar bear and her young cubs leave their den to play in the midnight sun. The cubs are bewitched by stories of whalesong, and scamper away from their mother to search for it.
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A lost little polar bear cub and his friends create a Snow bear mother for the little cub.
A warm-hearted story about a little bear and the special relationship between parent and child, perfect for reading together. Mum and Billy are very, very late. Billy says it's Rabbit's fault - Rabbit won't eat her breakfast. And now they have to run all the way to nursery. But in all the rush of saying goodbye, Mum forgets to tell Billy something very important . . . I Forgot to Say I Love You is a charming story from much-loved children's author, Miriam Moss, perfectly complemented by warm, classic-style illustrations from Anna Currey, illustrator of One Ted Falls Out of Bed and Rosie's Hat written by Julia Donaldson.
On a day like any other, Adam receives a call from his daughter's school. Miriam, his brilliant fifteen-year-old, has collapsed and stopped breathing; her heart has inexplicably stopped.
Little Tapir is sleeping next to his mother when he is woken by Spider and led deep inside the jungle following the beat of Spider's song. Monkeys, firebirds, snakes and insects all add their own rhythms to the music but when the beat stops and Tapir is all alone, he realises how dangerous the jungle can be. But Mother Tapir is there to save the day.