A thrilling, futuristic volume of 1960s and 1970s Thunderbirds comic strips featuring The City of Doom, The Big Bang and The Mini Moon with dateline 4th April 2070 and artwork by John Cooper. The first story City of Doom is set in 2069 and the artist is Frank Bellamy. For the first time ever, photographers have been allowed into Project City, a secret community of scientists working on a top security system within the mighty Andes Mountains. The aircraft skipper does as he is told and puts the mammoth plane down on an old military airfield high in the Andes Mountains... the way those idiots are treating those crates is suicidal! Boom! Great to see that Egmont Publishers have reprinted this series for ages 13 and up and of course adult nostalgia collectors. 48pp, 8.5 x 11.5".

A companion to Magic Painting Spooky Fun from the same very clever publisher, here are top tips to create fang-tastic scratch art crafts. To activate the glow-in-the-dark ink, leave your artworks in the sun or under a light for at least 30 minutes. Switch off the lights and get ready for a ghoulish glow. There is a spooky haunted house to press out, pumpkins, ghosts, bats, trick or treat children, a spooky party scene, a witch on a broomstick and your very own bat mask. There are activity pages to colour in, a pumpkin carving competition, werewolves, doodle a petrifying portrait, and watch out for the boogie monster. Big spiralbound hardback with real wooden etching pencil attached by a pumpkin-orange satin ribbon.

Funny rhymes and crazy creatures to make you giggle, open the big spiral bound card pages to first meet a reindeer going Grunt! Grunt! But if you open the flap on the righthand page bottom half first, you will meet the bottom half of a penguin going Honk! Honk! Polar bear, narwhal, wolverine, albatross, for each animal there is not only a beautiful colour artwork in two parts, but facts and their features like the orca, sometimes called a killer whale. I'm certainly not small! You'll see me from a distance with my fin that stands up tall. I am a mighty predator, so nothing catches me. My flippers are so powerful - I speed across the sea. Whoo! Whoo! Mix a penguin with a beluga and of course you get a penuga and so on! Flip the pages and roar with laughter with these 121 possible combinations. 28 colourful pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm. Ages 2-5 years, CE safety approved.

A large children's Flat with artist Ruth Brown's own brilliantly imagined masterpieces in this playful exploration of the artistic styles of famous painters through the years. Tom wandered into a side room while visiting an art gallery with his granny and discovered a cat emerging from a Jackson, an exotic Persian cross sleek black cat with bejewelled collar slipping into a Gustav Klimt painting, a cat emerging from the brightly coloured squares of a Mondrian, a Frida Spanish wildcat cross, a René Chartreux gently dreaming, a ginger feral cat with one ear chewed away sitting on Van Gogh's famous yellow chair, a Japanese bobtail riding Hokusai's waves, Henri Munchkin in a Parisian alley with a windmill in the background, and Edvard the Norwegian Forest cat in The Scream is quite hilarious. Persian kittens, an English tabby, the gallery by the end will be full of cat characters you will not want to leave. Amazing illustrations, one for every cat lover of any age. 32 pages, 24.7 x 27.7cm.

Milo the Cat, jet black with huge white googly eyes, features in this brilliant and colourful set of educational flash cards. They show 50 everyday objects like apple, drum, ladybird, cupcake, leaf, dolphin, ball, bee, strawberry and flower which help reinforce phonics, letter recognition and reading skills. Pack measures 14.6 x 10cm, 50 sturdy cards in colour for pre-schoolers aged 2-4 to make early learning fun and easy. CE safety approved.

Beautiful dark marine blue foil pages with big white perforated press-out pieces of seahorses, shells, the narwhal with his tusk, a beautiful mermaid, a crab, fish with their fins, jellyfish, a sea turtle, a lobster, an anchor, a starfish, and beautiful twisted shells. Let your imagination make a splash with narwhals, mermaids and much more. Create your own decorations and colour them in and make a cool collection of ornaments. Press out each piece, colour it in, slot together and make sparkling decorations and use the pages to store the pieces or add stencils to create your own design. Hang as mobiles or for any number of craft projects. Spiral bound, colour.

Children can dress King Arthur, Merlin and Lancelot for scenes including Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and jousting with Sir Lancelot. With over 140 colourful reusable stickers, boots and cloaks and costumes and helmets and swords and battle shields, you can dress Merlin the magician, meet his pet owl, secret map, book of spells and crystal ball, find out about the Holy Grail and dress Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, and Sir Bors and read excerpts from the famous stories such as the death of the king. Sir Bedivere carries the mortally wounded Arthur to the lake where he first received Excalibur all those years ago. The Lady of the Lake appears in a boat once more, this time to carry the king away to the Isle of Avalon. But Arthur will always be ready to return, whenever his kingdom needs him... Dress all the characters for action in this superb quality Usborne Activity large softback, 34pp, 23.9 x 30.6cm. Ages 5-8 years.

Designed for ages 8-11 years or indeed aspiring writers of all any age looking for inspiration and guidance for inspiring adjectives, testing your word choices, faces and features, writing about clothes, under the sea, the busy city, the tropical rainforest or putting yourself into the story. And all about writing dialogue and words for feelings and personality. If you want to add some extra magic to your stories, get help with creating characters, setting scenes and opening a wonderful world of words, here is plenty of space to build your own word bank. Big spiral bound hardback with beautiful fun children's designs and borders and robots, animals and characters and plenty of lined space and suggested words decorating every page.

Four salty seadog pirates, one with a spade, one with a hooked hand, one with a pegleg and one looking out to sea and all wearing big boots with turnups are four of the eight puppet characters in the box set. The other four are pirate flags, a sailing ship and an eagle. Each of the puppets are on sticks and the accompanying sheet of paper gives a few tips on how to start telling stories with your puppets whether they are in the middle of the woods, out at sea, their motive to find hidden treasure and what unexpected occurrence could change their plans. Plus how you will end your story whether they remain friends or are now deadly enemies! The brief history of shadow puppets explains that they were used as long ago as 2,000 years in China and it is believed that French missionaries brought the artform from China to Europe in the 1760s. India and many southeast Asian countries still have their own traditions of shadow puppetry today, often accompanied by dramatic music to enhance the story. For ages 3+, let your imagination go wild.
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Deluxe Frederick Warne leather soft-to-the-touch edition with silver gilded edge pages, pale blue satin bookmark to match the colour of the jacket and tipped-in illustration on the front cover of Peter Rabbit himself in a gorgeous celebration of the 1902 original. All 23 original tales by Beatrix Potter, read along as Peter Rabbit slips into Mr McGregor's garden, Jemima Puddle-duck tries to hatch her eggs and Squirrel Nutkin goes to Owl Island in these delightful tales. There is also the tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan, A Fierce Bad Rabbit, Miss Moppet, The Flopsy Bunnies, Ginger and Pickles, Mrs Tittlemouse, Pigling Bland, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, plus other works: Three Little Mice, The Sly Old Cat, The Fox and the Stork and The Rabbits' Christmas Party. With all the original typography around the exquisite original colour illustrations on 400 glossy white pages. Save £20. Colour, 20 x 26cm.
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