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On fine summer days all the toys are taken down to the lawn to have tea - all of them, that is, except the window doll. Then one day everything changes, and the window doll reaches the beautiful garden. But how is she to get back to her windowsill?
Every little girl loves a princess . . . With breathtakingly beautiful artwork and a charming retelling of each story, this gorgeous book captures all the sparkle and romance of six favourite fairy tales: - Cinderella - Beauty and the Beast - Thumbelina - Snow White - Sleeping Beauty - The Princess and the Pea There’s also an illustrated quiz at the end to encourage children to look more closely at the amazingly fine details in Siân Bailey’s intricate artwork.
All fairies love to dance and feast, so there is great excitement when the Fairy King and Queen invite everyone to Princess Petal's birthday party. The fairies start working happily on their special presents for the royal baby – the Waterfall fairies weave long grasses, the Ice fairies carve ice and the Woodland fairies gather fluffy down. See if you can guess what presents the fairies are making, then join them at the fabulous party.
A sumptuous collection of favourite tales by renowned author Helen Cresswell, with exquisite illustrations by Siân Bailey.
When Heena came out of her house, Rainbow was waiting in her garden, glowing like a pearl in the light of the Blessing Moon.
While on summer holidays in 1936, fourteen-year-old Evan meets a mysterious girl who bears a striking resemblance to the Alice of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Mrs Pepperpot never knows when she's going to shrink to the size of a kitchen pepperpot, and its usually at the most inconvenient moments But she would never have met the little people in the Magic Wood, or been taught to swim by a frog, or ridden on a mouse's back if she had been her normal size.
This textbook is intended for students of mathematics who have completed the foundational courses of their undergraduate studies and now want to specialize in Data Science and Machine Learning. It introduces the reader to the most important topics in the latter areas focusing on rigorous proofs and a systematic understanding of the underlying ideas. The textbook comes with 121 classroom-tested exercises. Topics covered include k-nearest neighbors, linear and logistic regression, clustering, best-fit subspaces, principal component analysis, dimensionality reduction, collaborative filtering, perceptron, support vector machines, the kernel method, gradient descent and neural networks. The author Sven A. Wegner earned his PhD in Functional Analysis in 2010. After several international academic positions, he is currently affiliated with the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Pirouettes, magic and romance – this enchanting collection of six favourite ballet stories captures all the wonder of the ballet! Each charming retelling is true to the ballet performed on stage with an exquisite 24-piece jigsaw depicting a scene from the dance. With breathtakingly beautiful artwork, this is a perfectly gorgeous book for all budding ballerinas! - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - Coppelia - Swan Lake - The Firebird - The Nutcracker There's also an illustrated quiz at the end to encourage children to look more closely at the amazingly fine details in Siân Bailey's intricate artwork.