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Nanny Hen is coming to baby sit Little Donkey, but he doesn't want a sitter. In true little-kid style, Little Donkey soon figures out the rules aren't always the same when Mama is away. Full color.

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There's a huge, hungry monster on the loose, eating everything in its path. Munch, the little monster, stays at home to guard his house.

Uses graphics to explain the facts behind the big issues. This title contains information on an encyclopaedic range of topical subjects. It takes various facts and figures, analyses them, spots the trends hiding beneath the surface and presents them in an understandable way. It also explains how things might work tomorrow.

Coming up with fresh ideas for logo jobs can be a very demanding process. This book offers designers many new ways to approach, or think about, each individual job, and Gill's message is that for every logo job, there are many solutions. In the back of the book, he proves this by designing 31 different logos for the same company, providing a quick-hit 'idea book on how to conceptualise a logo idea'. These pages illustrate very simple ways to think about a logo, providing designers with the inspiration and understanding that a busin... read more

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Some styles never go out of fashion because their elegance and simplicity have a timeless quality that endures as other fashions come and go. This new collection epitomizes intangible yet chic, classic style of the town-and-country sensibility. Stunning, easy-to-knit sweaters, jackets, twin sets, capes and boleros are inspired by the garments of classic designers and are brought up-to-date with contemporary yarns.

This comprehensive guide tells you everything you need to know to keep your old iron chugging happily along, and is fully updated and revised from the 1998 version. Now with all colour photography and new design, this book covers all the basic questions. You and your tractor; it was love at first sight, and your've been the perfect pair ever since. But sooner or later, the old iron's going to show its age. It sputters and coughs, oozes grease, wobbles on its wheels, gets rusty, and sometimes even dies. That plow that came with the ... read more

From the rising star of children's picture books comes the magical tale of friendship and loneliness, a boy and a penguin. There once was a boy! and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn't what the penguin was looking for after all!

The eagerly-anticipated Diagram Prize contest is back, and has selected this year's most bizarre book title. Established in 1978 by the Diagram Group to avoid boredom at the Frankfurt Bookfair and now presided over by the Bookseller, the prize has become an annual media event. Stuffed full of sniggeringly-good titles such as Hot Topics in Urology, When Men are Pregnant and Everything I Know About Women I Learned from My Tractor, Baboon Metaphysics includes the funniest titles short-listed for the prize in previous years. Nominees r... read more

"Beth Levine Shoes" is a showcase of gorgeous, full-color photographs of Beth Levine's groundbreaking shoe design and the story of this pioneering woman who went from Long Island farm girl to shoemaker for stars such as Nancy Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbra Streisand. Although she was a truly visionary designer, Levine's shoes were sold under her husband's name because female shoe designers were unheard of in her time. This book will give her the credit she deserves for her fashion-forward work, including introducing mules, sti... read more

The sea has always fascinated us and has proved a particular source of beautiful inspiration with its range of plant and animal life in varying shapes, sizes and colours. This book captures the essence of the seashore. Following a series of evocative photographs, it introduces a variety of motifs and materials of the seashore.

In spite of being an apparently basic article, a chair conceals a great number of different facets. It reflects the social and aesthetic changes that have taken place throughout its history. A complete and inspiring vision that is as relevant for the designer as for anyone who wishes to find the chair of his or her life.

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Jamie wakes suddenly from a scary monster dream to find a little monster has come back from his dream and into his bedroom! Jamie and the Rumpus try to exhaust themselves back into a sleepy slumber. But how will Jamie ever get back to sleep and send the Rumpus home when there is such a riotous rumpus in the night?

"Im a big wide-mouthed frog!" shouts the wide-mouthef frog at every creature he meets. But sometimes it's better to keep your big wide mouth shut!

Weasel is evil. His mean schemes and cunning tricks have made him richer than you can possibly imagine. But they have also upset his friends. So when Weasel throws a big party to show off his amazing castle, fast car and money-filled swimming pool, none of his guests turn up! Weasel is horrified to discover that he's bad at being a friend and sets out to put things right. But can he convince his friends that he's truly sorry? And will he really learn the error of his ways and stop being evil altogether?

When Harry leaves him sitting at the corner of the street, the most obedient dog in the world is sorely tried and tested. When he sees a cat, he leaps up, preparing to spring, when back comes Harry, who takes him to the beach as a reward for being good.

Anita Jeram's illustrations just make you smile and love the most obedient dog in the world." Children's Books of the Year; "The pictures and text work together brilliantly to make this a very special picture book." The School Librarian

Once upon a misty morning, from the top of a twisty-wisty beanstalk, someone was looking down on to a tall, tall tower . . . Magic and mischief are afoot as a dreadful spell is cast on the forest. But who can save them before the sands of time run out. Enter Sir Charlie Stinky Socks -