Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780550105646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780550105646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780550105646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 853
Book Description
Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Quick Quack Quentin
Author: Kes Gray
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9781444919578
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the creators of the bestselling Oi Frog! Frog comes an hilarious tale about one duck's quest for a missing vowel! Quentin was a duck with a very quick quack. 'QUCK!' said Quentin. 'What's wrong with me?' Quentin's quack has lost its A. Do any of the other animals have one to spare? Not likely! APES don't want to be PES. SNAKES don't want to be SNKES. PANDAS don't want to be PNDAS or even PANDS. Will Quentin be stuck with a very quick QUCK?! Brilliant for reading out loud and teaching children about vowels and animals. Praise for Oi, Frog! also by Kes Gray and Jim Field: 'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series. Oi Dog! was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award, MadeForMums Award, Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season and Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018.
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 9781444919578
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the creators of the bestselling Oi Frog! Frog comes an hilarious tale about one duck's quest for a missing vowel! Quentin was a duck with a very quick quack. 'QUCK!' said Quentin. 'What's wrong with me?' Quentin's quack has lost its A. Do any of the other animals have one to spare? Not likely! APES don't want to be PES. SNAKES don't want to be SNKES. PANDAS don't want to be PNDAS or even PANDS. Will Quentin be stuck with a very quick QUCK?! Brilliant for reading out loud and teaching children about vowels and animals. Praise for Oi, Frog! also by Kes Gray and Jim Field: 'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series. Oi Dog! was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award, MadeForMums Award, Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season and Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018.
Lemon the Duck
Author: Laura Backman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897550250
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on a true story, this heartwarming picture book introduces the concepts of disability and difference to children."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897550250
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on a true story, this heartwarming picture book introduces the concepts of disability and difference to children."
Q Is for Duck
Author: Mary Elting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618574124
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
While learning some facts about animals, the reader is challenged to guess why A is for zoo, B is for dog, and C is for hen.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618574124
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
While learning some facts about animals, the reader is challenged to guess why A is for zoo, B is for dog, and C is for hen.
Quackers
Author: Liz Wong
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553511548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"Quackers has always believed that he is a duck, but when he meets new friends who look like him and call themselves cats, he has to find a way to combine the best of both worlds"--
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0553511548
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
"Quackers has always believed that he is a duck, but when he meets new friends who look like him and call themselves cats, he has to find a way to combine the best of both worlds"--
Just Ducks!
Author: Nicola Davies
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221619
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Pitch-perfect throughout, enthusiastic and confident. . . . Positively ducky all around." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The young girl in this story may live in the city, but outside her window there’s a river full of mallard ducks! She hears them as soon as she wakes up, and on the way to school she sees them upside down bobbing for food. Interspersed with fun facts, her enthusiastic commentary about her feathered neighbors — what they look like, how they behave, where they nest, where they sleep — pairs swimmingly with cheerful watercolor illustrations. Back matter includes an index and a note about ducks.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221619
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Pitch-perfect throughout, enthusiastic and confident. . . . Positively ducky all around." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The young girl in this story may live in the city, but outside her window there’s a river full of mallard ducks! She hears them as soon as she wakes up, and on the way to school she sees them upside down bobbing for food. Interspersed with fun facts, her enthusiastic commentary about her feathered neighbors — what they look like, how they behave, where they nest, where they sleep — pairs swimmingly with cheerful watercolor illustrations. Back matter includes an index and a note about ducks.
Joe McCarthy and the Press
Author: Edwin R. Bayley
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299086244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is a book for historians, journalists—and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299086244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is a book for historians, journalists—and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.
Daddy Sat on a Duck
Author: Scott M. Cohn
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316341967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This hilarious (and yet heartwarming) salute to real daddies everywhere is crafted with contemporary parents in mind and will have readers laughing out loud as they recognize and relish many familiar family moments that most books for children leave out! Do you ever hear strange noises in your house? (The bathroom in particular.) Are hairy creatures raiding the fridge at midnight? Does some animal keep leaving the toilet seat up? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Join one little girl on her quest to catch the wild beasts in her home that HONK and ROAR and BELCH at all hours. Or... could it just be Daddy?
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316341967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This hilarious (and yet heartwarming) salute to real daddies everywhere is crafted with contemporary parents in mind and will have readers laughing out loud as they recognize and relish many familiar family moments that most books for children leave out! Do you ever hear strange noises in your house? (The bathroom in particular.) Are hairy creatures raiding the fridge at midnight? Does some animal keep leaving the toilet seat up? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Join one little girl on her quest to catch the wild beasts in her home that HONK and ROAR and BELCH at all hours. Or... could it just be Daddy?
Drama Menu
Author: Glyn Trefor-Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848422858
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
Quack and Count
Author: Keith Baker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152050252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152050252
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.