The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter (Paley Vivian Gussin)(Paperback)

The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter (Paley Vivian Gussin)(Paperback)

How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fantasies be brought into the richly imaginative

The Men Who Would Be Kings: Colonial Wargaming Rules (Mersey Daniel)(Paperback)

The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid- to late-Nineteenth Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief,

How to Be on the Moon (Schwarz Viviane)(Paperback / softback)

If It Wasn't for Tom (MacPhail Catherine)(Paperback)

If it wasn t for Tom, one young boy would be much happier at school he would be able to play football without being taunted from the sidelines. But is Tom as strong-willed when he is forced to play football as well? This thought-provoking story was written by award-winning author Catherine

The Boy Who Stood Up Tall (Boyd Sarah)(Paperback)

The Boy Who Stood Up Tall follows the journey of a little boy with a sensitive soul who learns to stand up to his fears. One day, a little boy is playing with his bear when a thunderstorm approaches his house. At first, the little boy is afraid and runs from the storm, but when his bear starts to

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife (Bannos Pamela)(Paperback)

Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to be an inadvertent master of twentieth-century

Boy at the Door (Dahl Alex)(Paperback / softback)

What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill? When Cecilia ends up looking after a boy with no home, dark secrets from her past force their way to

To Be A Cat (Haig Matt)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie. *'A clawed masterpiece' - Guardian*Barney Willow's life couldn't get any

The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling Rudyard)(Paperback)

Stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness, and murder from one of the most magical storytellers in the English language A Penguin Classic This selection brings together the best of Rudyard Kipling's short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us

Boy Who Dreamed of Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 4) (Shepherd Andy)(Paperback / softback)

The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (Kipling Rudyard)(Paperback)

Arranged in the order of their original publication and written during Kipling's time as a journalist in India, these seventeen short stories explore the themes of isolation and abandonment and the effects of the Indian caste system on society. Along with the title piece, the volume includes

The Wreckage of Us (Cherry Brittainy)(Paperback)

Never in a million years did I think it would be Ian Parker who saved me...I know I should stay away from Ian Parker.But when my drug-dealing stepdad kicks me out, I have nowhere to go. Squatting in an abandoned shed on Ian's grandpa's farm seems like as good a plan as any.Ian finds me there, of

Woman Who Would be King - Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Cooney Kara)(Paperback / softback)

The audacious rise to power of a female pharaoh in a man's

Vivian (Hesselholdt Christina)(Paperback)

With Vivian, her second novel to be published in English, Christina Hesselholdt delves into the world of the enigmatic American photographer Vivian Maier (1926-2009), whose unique body of work only reached the public by chance. On the surface, Vivian Maier lived a quiet life, working as a nanny for

Bee Boy: Attack of the Zombees (De Saulles Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Half BEE. Half BOY. Melvin Meadly is . . . BEE BOY!The highly entertaining story of an unlikely superhero, full of fantastic bee facts, and illustrated in black and

Greek Mythology for Beginners (Lee Joe)(Paperback)

Would there be a Western civilization without the Greek myths? Would we be able to define our civilization and ourselves without some reference to the grand, violent, and venal doings of those denizens of Mount Olympus?Greek Mythology For Beginners presents the pantheon that immortal collection of

We Need To Talk About Kevin (Shriver Lionel)(Paperback / softback)

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family,

Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality and Forensic Psychotherapy (Kahr Brett)(Paperback)

In the pre-modern era, those who committed serious crimes would invariably be treated with extreme cruelty - often punished, tortured, eviscerated, and executed in the most grisly, sadistic fashion. Over time, the treatment of offenders has become more enlightened and more benign. But have we

Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (Henry Marguerite)(Paperback)

Newbery Award-winning author Marguerite Henry's beloved novel about a boy who would do anything to paint is now available in a refreshed paperback edition. Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift--the gift of creating paintings of people, animals, and landscapes so true to life they 'took

The Boy Who Fell (Spain Jo)(Paperback)

Kids can be so cruel.They'll call you names.Hurt your feelings.Push you to your death. In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet, Luke was raped and pushed to his

Bee Boy: Clash of the Killer Queens (De Saulles Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Half BEE. Half BOY. Melvin Meadly is . . . BEE BOY. As a bee, Mel is ready to defend his hive against all enemies taking on killer wasps, terrifying hawkmoths, and battling queen bees. But as a boy, has he got what it takes to protect his bees (and himself) against the greatest menace of all

Kick the Moon (Khan Muhammad)(Paperback)

'Who are you supposed to be? Superman ain't no brown boy.' 15-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE's are looming and his teachers just won't let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don't care about any of it. There's no space in Ilyas' life to just be a

The Boy Who Grew Flowers (Wojtowicz Jen)(Paperback)

Rink is a very unusual boy who grows beautiful flowers all over his body whenever the moon is full. Rink and his family are treated as outcasts even though no one knows his strange botanical secret. But one day a new girl arrives at school, and Rink discovers she has some unique qualities of her

The Boy Who Biked the World, 1: On the Road to Africa (Humphreys Alastair)(Paperback)