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‘This deeply personal book is a delight for those who already value our feathered friends and is a perfect introduction for those who are new to birding.’ – Caroline Quentin   ‘A fresh, funny and deeply personal take on why birds matter, from an important new voice in nature writing.’ – Dr Stephen Moss  Birdwatching is for everyone. Discover how simple, everyday encounters with birds can help you bond with the natural world.   Whether it’s a brief encounter with a friendly robin or a curious wood pigeon perched on your windowsill, everyone has a bird story. Join nature and wildlife enthusiast Charlie Bingham as she travels the length and breadth of the UK, searching for oystercatchers on rooftops and peregrines on cathedral spires. Simply look up and become part of the awe-inspiring world that exists above us.   Broken into twelve chapters, each covering a different bird and a different lesson, discover: How engaging with nature doesn’t require expertise, special equipment or remote settings. Practical advice and accessible ways to notice and interpret the birds around you. How birdwatching helped Charlie navigate grief, mental health, ADHD, financial strain and other major life challenges.  Blending Charlie’s beautiful nature writing and personal anecdotes with relatable life lessons, this is the perfect book for all birdwatchers, or anyone who struggles to find motivation to get through the daily grind.   Both a memoir and a practical guide to slowing down and noticing what’s around you, The Life-Affirming Magic of Birds reveals how even the smallest encounters with nature can offer a renewed sense of connection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------'Moving, informative, funning, evocative. Charlie's book will take you on a wonderful journey through the world of birds and the stories of those that live alongside them. Through her stories, you will be inspired to embark on your own journey and make a deeper connection with the natural world around you. An utter delight from start to finish.' – Miranda Krestovnikoff‘A beautifully written book that connects us to beauty and curiosity. It will fill your mind and make your heart sing like a nightingale.' – Robin Ince‘It reads as the instructions for a nature prescription, something the world needs more of.’ – Nick Baker

From the award-winning creators of The Hare-Shaped Hole, It Won’t Be Forever helps young children cope with separation anxiety by showing how love keeps families connected, even when they’re apart.  In the woods there lives a fox family. One of the cubs, Vixie, has a close relationship with her dad, Rey. He makes her feel safe and he's always there for her when she feels lonely, worried or sad.  One day, Rey tells the family that he has to go away for a little while and Vixie worries. She can’t bear to be apart from her dad!  But Rey reassures her that he’ll be back before she knows it and gifts her a kingfisher feather as a reminder of love. He promises that as soon as he can, he’ll be back home.  So Vixie is brave and carries on without her dad. And when she misses him lots, she looks at her feather and feels connected to Rey, even though he’s far away.  And sooner than she knows it, her daddy comes back! And Vixie knows that missing her dad’s not unbearable, never. For she understands truly, it won’t be forever.  Warm, lyrical text and expressive illustrations come together to create a sensitive and emotionally intelligent exploration of separation anxiety. Perfect for sharing at bedtime or during moments of transition It Won’t Be Forever offers young readers reassurance that difficult feelings are natural, absence does not mean loss and love always brings us back together.

'If you’re feeling lost this book is for you.' Jo Emerson - The UK’s leading confidence coach Take control of your future with five proven rules to negotiate life on your terms.  In today’s fast-changing world, life is more uncertain than ever. The old road maps do not seem to work and many people are questioning what success really means. In moments like these, the ability to understand ourselves, define our dreams and negotiate our path forward is not a luxury: it is a necessity.   Luckily, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at University College London, Dr Sunny Lee, can help you achieve these goals with five essential rules:  Rule 1: Own your goals by identifying what success means to you and building a Goal Algorithm to prioritise decisions. Rule 2: Master smart give-and-take by learning how to make strategic trade-offs and creating win-win outcomes. Rule 3: Leverage your plan B by strengthening alternatives so you can walk away from bad deals without fear. Rule 4: Manage ego to win what matters. Stay focused on interests, not pride, using the IRPIR model. Rule 5: Play the long game by building trust and relationships that develop over time. Packed with real-life examples and practical exercises you can use immediately, this book is your DIY manual for navigating pay-rise conversations, setting boundaries, planning career moves and much, much more.  Turn obstacles into leverage and build a life that works on your terms with Your Next Move. 'Blending behavioural science with real-world insights, Your Next Move is a practical, inspiring guide to navigating career and life transitions with purpose and strategy.' Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Global thought leader, bestselling author and organisational psychologist

Step into the irresistibly cute world of the Fuzzballs and discover a joyful guide to creativity, kindness, friendship, and self-care packed with activities and feel-good fun to dip into anytime.  Fuzzballs’ Guide to a Super Cute Life invites you to immerse yourself in the wonderfully whimsical lives of Whisky the cat, Ollie the bunny, Timmy the tiger, and their friends, as they share their tips for living life the Fuzzballs way.   With color-coded sections and a lively, easy-to-navigate format, you can jump straight into the activities that suit your mood, whether you want to draw, relax, bake, or reflect.  For example, there are: Quizzes and personality tests to find out which Fuzzball you’re most like. Comics and short stories featuring the Fuzzballs’ funny and heartwarming adventures. Creative drawing guides to help you draw their favourite characters or design your own. Simple, kid-friendly recipes for delicious treats like cookies and ice cream. Guides to friendship, kindness, and everyday life. Gentle wellbeing tips focused on mindfulness, creativity, gratitude, rest, and self-care. Games and activities designed for both solo fun and sharing with friends. Fun, bright and bursting with personality, Fuzzballs’ Guide to a Super Cute Life is a playful companion for all readers ages 11+.   Let the Fuzzballs show you how to live your cutest life.

From social media superstar, and Sunday Times bestselling author and gardener, Jamie Walton, this charming picture book uses plant friendships to show how cooperation, kindness and growing together help everyone.  From cheery sunflowers and shy little carrots to brave (but smelly) onions, each plant has its own strengths that help the vegetable garden thrive.    But when Squish the squash plant sprouts and can't stop growing, the garden faces new challenges: can she find the right friends to help her fit in? And when sneaky beetles creep into the patch, munching leaves and causing trouble, will the helpful herbs come to the rescue?  With teamwork, understanding and a little bit of magic from Mari the Marigold, the plant friends discover that everyone has a role to play and that plants, like people, need friends to be able to grow!  Plants Need Friends Too! is a heartwarming adventure with companion planting techniques at its core.   Complete with wonderfully whimsical illustrations by Rose Gerrard, this book teaches lessons from nature and shows that being a good friend – just like a good companion plant – means helping others.

What was Cinderella’s fairy godmother doing before the magical ball? Find out in this charming tale from the exciting picture book duo, Abie Longstaff and Leire Martín.   The little fairies in Fairyland all grow up to help humans as a Fairy Godparent. All are born with a special, useful skills . . . except Dazzle. None of the other fairies think Dazzle's talent for making balloons, party horns and sparkly surprises is all that helpful!    But little does she know, a human called Cinderella needs some help getting ready for a party . . .   Perfect for fans of fairy tales with a fresh twist, join Dazzle on her sparkling journey and discover how she became the fairy who changed Cinderella’s life!

Reconnect mind and body with Somatic Healing, the practical guide to feeling good in your body. Discover gentle, beginner friendly movements and routines to work your body and mind out in a new, mindful way, and feel physically good. Learn, through this book, how to listen to, understand, and work with (not against) your body one small movement at a time. Release stress, tension, and trauma from your body, soothe your nervous system, and connect with your energy flow through simple movement and breathwork. In this illustrated, how-to guide, you will find:•25+ gentle movements to connect body and brain, with step-by-step instructions and visuals•5 somatic movement routines, from a 10-minute routine to release grief, to a 5-minute routine to boost energy•5 somatic meditations to sooth and revitalise the mind, body, and soulThe benefits of somatic healing can include:Better connection to mind and bodyImproved mental, physical, and emotional wellbeingDecrease in physical painReleased stress, tension and traumaIncreased energy, strength, flexibility, and mobilityEmbrace holistic healing and nourish your physical, emotional, and mental health through the power of mindful movement and somatic healing.

Discover the joy and meaning of Juneteenth, a very special celebration that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Jeremiah and his family are preparing to honor Freedom Day, join them to learn more about how and why it is celebrated.Embark on a journey of learning and discovery with Celebrations & Festivals: Juneteenth, a beautifully illustrated, narrative non-fiction picture book designed for children. This engaging and informative book takes young readers through the history and significance of Freedom Day, told with a gentle, age-appropriate voice.Jeremiah is excited for Juneteenth, but first he want to show how he and his family honor their culture and history all year round. Join them as they work on community projects, visit historic landmarks, learn about Black history, and celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Americans. When June 19th arrives, they pray and thank their ancestors, fly special flags, make yummy Juneteenth recipes, and attend the big parade in town. They it’s back home for a party, where they celebrate with music, dancing, and laughter. There''s a big BBQ, southern soul food, and lots of treats, including Jeremiah’s delicious red velvet cupcakes! In the evening they go to watch the fireworks in their neighborhood and wish each other a happy Freedom Day. Follow young relatable characters and their parents as they honor their culture and history and celebrate Juneteenth, radiating Black joy and championing community.Learn about important people and events that shaped Black history.Write your own freedom song and create your own freedom flag.Bake some delicious tea cakes for your Juneteenth celebrations.Contains 16 pages of extra non-fiction content, including history, crafts, recipes, activities, and a quiz that bring the learning experience to life, encouraging young minds to engage with and understand the importance of Juneteenth.Perfect for families, educators, and young readers, this book is a celebration of Black joy.Discover more with other titles in this delightful Celebrations & Festivals series!

Football Kicks is a hilarious collection of comic-strip football jokes, filled with over 60 laugh-out-loud silly scenarios! Emiliano Migliardo’s outrageously funny full-colour comics are perfect for avid football fans and reluctant readers as the jokes are mostly wordless. This awesome compilation of one-page comics is a winning combination of silly yet clever gags and pranks, filled with the joy – and frustration – of football!  Full of football frolics about mischievous tactics, doing whatever it takes to get the ball in the back of the net and even the perils of being nut-megged, this is the perfect gift for any young football fan. These short, sporty jokes will be the talk of the playground… or football pitch!

Be Confident in 100 DaysConfidence is an inside job and the root of everyone’s confidence issues lies in the mind.This book has been designed to help you deal with all the manifestations of low self-esteem within one hundred days, which means that you could have a brand-new life in three months’ time. Imagine that! You could spend the rest of your life as a confident, self-assured person. This may sound too good to be true, but if you are willing to do the work, this book will be your guide and you will start to feel very differently about yourself and your life before you’ve even finished chapter three.Packed with with coaching exercises, case studies, journaling prompts, affirmations and quick tips, the ten chapters in this book will revolutionise your life. If you take ten days to work through each chapter, you will be on track to change your life in one hundred days. Each chapter builds on the one before, however, the chapters also stands alone as a complete piece so if you feel that body confidence, for example, is your main issue, you might want to dip into that chapter first if you prefer. Hiding beneath your fears and doubts and neuroses is a confident, self-assured version of you just waiting to be rediscovered. So, set aside your doubts, trust in the process and allow the power of this book to really change your life.

There are hours of fun in this epic two-in-one search-and-find activity book, designed to build children's confidence with letters, numbers and early observation skills!  Search & Find Alphabet of Alphabets and Number of Numbers brings together two engaging activity books in a single flipbook format. With over fifty detailed scenes to explore, children will develop essential early-learning skills as they search, count, recognise letters and follow visual prompts.  The two-in-one format contains both: Alphabet of Alphabets: twenty-six A–Z visual alphabets, from an Alphabet of Birds to an Alphabet of Zoo, each filled with items for every letter. Number of Numbers: flip the book over to count from 1 to 100 through imaginative, themed search-and-find puzzles including farms, oceans, cities, outer space and more. Across both halves of the flip-book, children follow clear prompts and spot items, giving them meaningful practice in recognising letters and numbers. Each spread is complete with striking and detailed artwork by Allan Sanders, offering a fun and rewarding seek-and-find experience with every page turn.  Perfect for school and home-learning, this expansive search-and-find flip-book encourages children to look closely, explore creatively and develop their ABC and 123 skills with confidence.

Across Britain, and especially in the southern chalklands, is a series of figures cut into the hills, exposing the chalk beneath. These hill-figures are strange, mysterious, and sometimes controversial. They are of varying and often contested age, and vague purpose. They are horses, giants, crosses, a lion, a lost panda, crowns, a kiwi, regimental badges. They are often sited near ancient trackways, iron age earthworks or dissolved monasteries, and or close to stone circles. Some are faded or lost, their names preserved only in the names of valleys or hills.Humans have long decorated their landscapes, but chalk hill figures are, almost uniquely, a feature of the English downland. This means they are sometimes seen as emblematic of Englishness, celebrated by poets, writers, artists and musicians. The book is a portrait of the places where these figures dominate, bringing in history, politics, literature, music, film and TV, but with a light touch. The Tattooed Hills isn’t a nostalgic elegy for England, instead it uses the figures as a lens through which to explore the land and delves into more troubling undercurrents – the way that chalk hill figures have sometimes been appropriated, in an attempt to pin down a narrow definition of Englishness and belonging.Chalk carvings are signals for our identity and identities, and that their long history, the way they have inspired artists, musicians and writers, and the communities that live in their shadows, offer an alternative way of thinking about ourselves. Often created as memorials for historical events, their meanings, like their shape, have shifted over the years, these new interpretations reflecting our changing society and values. They are beacons on the hills, they speak to us and of us, no matter where we live or where we’re from.

The award-winning Curiositree: Natural World explores, through 67 exquisitely illustrated charts, the myriad ways in which plants and animals have adapted to survive. Discover the interconnectedness of the natural world and learn why living things look and behave the way they do in a series of visually compelling information charts, maps and cutaways, all illustrated in a nostalgic, vintage style. Packed with incredible facts about the natural world and the animals that populate it, the whole family will enjoy the full-page spreads grouped into the categories of habitats, species and adaptations. Celebrate the extraordinary resourcefulness and resilience of the natural world with amazing facts about:Habitats, ecosystems and biodiversityMigrations, from the wildebeest of Africa to the red crabs of Christmas IslandAll types of camouflage, from predator-dazing zebra stripes to the fur of the Artic fox, which changes to white in winter to match the snowLife in the rainforest, the ‘lungs of our planet’All sorts of seeds and their variety of ingenious designsLife cycles of creatures, from butterflies to the curious axolotl As the human species, Homo sapiens, are challenged now to find ways to live and survive in harmony with nature, curiosity will provide the answers. So, set out on your own adventure in this book, and discover why the natural world is worthy of your unending curiosity.

Born on the island of Madeira in Portugal, Cristiano grew up playing football from a very young age. With determination and self-belief, he pursued his dream of becoming a professional player, overcoming setbacks and challenges – including surgery for a heart condition called tachycardia – along the way. From his first matches in local clubs to international stardom, his journey shows the power of hard work, resilience and courage. This inspiring book introduces children to Ronaldo’s record-breaking career, including three consecutive Premier League titles with Manchester United, victories in the Champions League and Club World Cup, and his record transfer to Real Madrid in 2009. Ronaldo’s remarkable, record-breaking career is a story of hard work and determination, one that is sure to resonate with young sports fans, inspiring them to dream big and believe that anything is possible. Ronaldo is also known for his charity work, using his fame to raise awareness and help good causes. Young readers will learn how he followed his passion, never gave up and became a role model for millions around the world, both on and off the pitch. This inspirational book also features dynamic illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timelinewith historical photos and a detailed profile of the athlete’s life.

For anyone interested in the simple thrills of old-fashioned oily machines, the Spitfire is considered a mechanical work of art. How To Fly A Spitfire takes those with a keen sense of mechanical curiosity on a fascinating tour of this remarkable machine, and gives a unique impression of what it’s like to actually pilot one.First-flown in March 1936, and operated by both the RAF and the US Air Force throughout the Second World War and beyond, the Spitfire is a machine of deep cultural significance. Aside from its key role in the Battle of Britain and the rest of the war, it’s elegant design, impressive performance and powerful Rolls Royce Merlin engine ensure its endless fascination to aviation fans.Much more fun than an overly technical deep dive, How To Fly A Spitfire offers a readable, satisfying and accessible step-by-step walkthrough of the highlights of this machine and its incredible operational life. From the basics of starting the engine and preparing for flight, to an outline of its aerobatic abilities and some fundamentals of keeping this complicated plane airworthy, this brings the Spitfire home to aviation fans everywhere.

WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARDS 2022  Discover the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans in this internationally bestselling book for kids!   Humans may think they’re the ultimate inventors, but animals have been solving problems and creating ingenious designs for millions of years. From super-speed swimmers to masters of disguise, nature’s inventors have inspired some of the world’s most amazing technologies – and this book reveals their secrets.  This fascinating and fact-packed book includes: Brilliant animal innovations that have shaped human inventions, from shark skin swimsuits to bird-inspired bullet trains. Mind-blowing adaptations like gecko feet that stick without glue, butterfly wings that shimmer without pigment and termite mounds that inspired eco-friendly architecture. Fascinating science explained in a fun, accessible way for young readers. Stunning illustrations that bring the inventions to life. Check out the snail who has invented a house that stays cool inside even in the desert and take a closer look at the eagle whose super-zoom vision has inspired the invention of the world's tiniest and most powerful cameras. Every animal – and their invention – is a marvel in this unique non-fiction blend of science, technology and wildlife.  Perfect for animal enthusiasts and budding inventors, Invented by Animals will change the way you see the natural world.