: A lively story with humorous illustrations, ideal for children who are beginning to read for themselves, or for reading aloud together. With simple rhyming text and phonic repetition, this book is specially designed to develop essential language and early reading skills. Also includes guidance notes for parents at the back of the book.
: A charming retelling of this magical tale of power and justice. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Power in the Tempest. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross's engaging black-and-white illustrations, each play is vividly brought to life allowing these culturally enriching stories to be shared with as wide an audience as possible.
: The Greatest Short stories of Leo Tolstoy (No:7022)
: Leo Tolstoy
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: The Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (18281910) ranks as one of the world’s great writers, and his “War and Peace” has been called the greatest novel ever written. The purpose of all true creative art, he believed, is to teach. But the message in all his stories is presented with such humour that the reader hardly realises that it is strongly didactic.
: Merry The Elephant's Paper Plane (Little Books Lovers') (No:15056)
: Karishma Mahbubani
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: Merry the Elephant has made a paper plane at school today! She can’t wait to decorate it with glitter paints and stickers.
On the way back home, Merry bumps into her friend, Rino the Rhino. He tries to fly the plane but the wind suddenly blows it away!
: Meet Merry, a happy little elephant!
On her first day of school, she just wants to paint a nice picture for her teacher, Miss Moo. Maybe it will be displayed on the special board reserved for the best ones.
: In a tiny school in the Uttarakhand hills Himani and her classmates learn how to solve real-life problems. The story takes you through her diary entries as she learns the steps to solve problems big and small.
: Long, long ago, when people lived in caves, two brothers in the northeastern part of India, now called Arunachal Pradesh, decided to build their own house. In a folktale that refers to the rich fauna of this region, we learn how the first house was built.