Hector the Hippo wants to play the cello more than anything else in the world. But who in the jungle will teach him? Most of the other animals laugh at the idea. Finally Hector meets a musician who can help him, a lyrebird. He practices everyday until he has a chance to play at a grand concert in front of all the other animals.
What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow - from a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, to families with a disabled member. Mary Hoffman takes a look through children's eyes at the wide varieties of family life: from homes, food, ways of celebrating, schools and holidays to getting around, jobs and housework, from extended families, languages and hobbies to pets and family trees - and she concludes that, for most people, their own family is the best one of all! With Ros Asquith's delightful pictures, this book takes a fresh, optimistic look at families of today.
Rhyming text describes bunches of babies, but there is only one baby that is loved the best.
The book opens with the question: "How are you feeling today?" And this leads on to a spread by spread presentation of a wide range of feelings, including: *Happy * Sad * Excited * Bored * Interested * Angry * Upset * Calm * Silly * Lonely * Scared * Safe *Embarrassed * Shy * Confident * Worried * Jealous * Satisfied The final spread is about Feeling Better because sharing and talking about feelings helps us to feel better. The approach and design follows The Great Big Book of Families, with lots of different children in lots of different situations, brief text captions and questions and plenty of humour to make sure the book is fun.Mary Hoffman and Ros Asquith look at feelings in family life, at school and everywhere with the same warmth, wit and sensitivity that they brought to their award- winning The Great Big Book of Families.
Continues the mother/daughter conflict begun in NOT DRESSED LIKE THAT, YOU DON'T!
The sequel to I was a Teenage Worrier. This is an A-Z guide to lurve as seen through the eyes of Letty Chubb, aged 15. There is no aspect of love that Letty does not cover, from Adam - the first bloke to take advantage, to anoraks - they should be banned from all romantic encounters.
Letty Chubb, 15, is a teenage worrier. In this book she details her hopes, her joys, her tears and her fears, on topics ranging from very personal and private things to very, very important world issues such as oxygen, AIDS, war and electrolysis.
Trost & Rat für gestresste Teenies - Erfolgreich mit Letty Clubb; Ueberreuter Verlag; Ros Asquith; pocket_book; 2001
Drahý Rifzadeli, tak jsme tady, namačkaní v odporném „domě“ na Zemi, té nejnerudnější a nejohyzdnější planetě v celém vesmíru. Je tu příšerná zima, což není nic překvapivého vzhledem k tomu, že má tahle planeta jen jedno jediné slunce, a to po většinu času zakrývají mokré poletující hroudy, kterým se říká „mraky“. Klepu se jak pluglík a zuřím jako pytel škrabilušek. Tak začíná korespondence nebohého mimozemského školáka Čurifáce, který se s rodinou ocitl na planetě Zemi, aby pomohl „vylepšit“ její obyvatele. Musí splynout s davem, což obnáší spoustu problémů, jako jak vtěsnat všechna chapadla, hlavy, oči, žaludky a srdce do lidské schránky, jak ve škole zamaskovat, že je chytřejší než Einstein, a jak nalákat spolužáky do obřího Vylepšovacího stroje. K tomu všemu se k Zemi řítí Hrozgové, nejděsivější obyvatelé vesmíru, aby ji přeměnili v obří špenátové pole. Upozornění: Tuto knihu lze jen stěží dočíst do konce vzhledem k neustálým výbuchům nekontrolovatelného smíchu.
Fluppipi ist in einer wichtigen Mission unterwegs: Als Schuljunge verkleidet, reist der Außerirdische auf den blauen Planeten, um mehr über dessen Bewohner zu erfahren. Nie hätte er gedacht, dass es in diesem Universum tatsächlich lebensfähige Wesen mit nur einem Kopf und zwei Glupschern gibt. Ohne Antennen, Lichter, Wirbler oder Winker! Um kein Aufsehen zu erregen, verhält sich Fluppipi erst mal so unauffällig wie möglich. Doch das ist gar nicht so einfach. Erst recht nicht, wenn man keine Ahnung hat, wozu irdische Dinge wie Socken gut sind -
