Author: Philip Bunting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760507633
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Good mums come in many different shapes and species. Get set to meet some of Mother Nature's most marvellous mums. Philip Bunting celebrates mothers with this laugh-out-loud book that combines his signature humour and glorious illustrations with fascinating facts about the what motherhood looks like across the animal kingdom.
Where the Wild Mums Are
Author: Katie Blackburn
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571321526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all . . . Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, new mums - or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571321526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all . . . Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, new mums - or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike.
My Mum's a Tiger
Author: Kate Claxton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527266223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527266223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Pirate Mums
Author: Jodie Lancet-Grant
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN: 0192779990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Billy's family is not what you'd call ordinary. His mums won't listen to NORMAL music. They love to sing sea shanties and dance jigs in the lounge. Their clothes are highly unusual, they have a rude parrot for a pet, and their taste in house design is, well . . . FISHY. Billy wishes his family could be more like everyone else's. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN: 0192779990
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Billy's family is not what you'd call ordinary. His mums won't listen to NORMAL music. They love to sing sea shanties and dance jigs in the lounge. Their clothes are highly unusual, they have a rude parrot for a pet, and their taste in house design is, well . . . FISHY. Billy wishes his family could be more like everyone else's. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!
Mopoke
Author: Philip Bunting
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742991658
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is a mopoke. Mopoke loves peace and quiet. He is about to find out that you can't always get what you want. Visually brilliant and hysterically funny, Philip Bunting's pictures tell a thousand words, with the support of very sparse, very hilarious, text. This is a book destined to become a classic.
Publisher: Omnibus Books
ISBN: 9781742991658
Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This is a mopoke. Mopoke loves peace and quiet. He is about to find out that you can't always get what you want. Visually brilliant and hysterically funny, Philip Bunting's pictures tell a thousand words, with the support of very sparse, very hilarious, text. This is a book destined to become a classic.
Who's Your Real Mum?
Author: Bernadette Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913348137
Category : Lesbian-parent families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A BIG ISSUEBOOK OF THE YEAR A beautifully illustrated story, written with a light and humorous touch, that celebrates nontraditional families and captures exactly what lies at the heart of family life -- love. 'Elvi, which one is your mum?' 'They're both my mum.' 'But which one's your realmum?' When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi's two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even teaches spiders the art of web. But Nicholas still can't work it out! Luckily, Elvi knows just how to explain it to her friend.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913348137
Category : Lesbian-parent families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A BIG ISSUEBOOK OF THE YEAR A beautifully illustrated story, written with a light and humorous touch, that celebrates nontraditional families and captures exactly what lies at the heart of family life -- love. 'Elvi, which one is your mum?' 'They're both my mum.' 'But which one's your realmum?' When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi's two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even teaches spiders the art of web. But Nicholas still can't work it out! Luckily, Elvi knows just how to explain it to her friend.
Wild about Mums
Author: Philip Bunting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760507633
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Good mums come in many different shapes and species. Get set to meet some of Mother Nature's most marvellous mums. Philip Bunting celebrates mothers with this laugh-out-loud book that combines his signature humour and glorious illustrations with fascinating facts about the what motherhood looks like across the animal kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760507633
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Good mums come in many different shapes and species. Get set to meet some of Mother Nature's most marvellous mums. Philip Bunting celebrates mothers with this laugh-out-loud book that combines his signature humour and glorious illustrations with fascinating facts about the what motherhood looks like across the animal kingdom.
PAM
Author: Pam Erskine
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0954837916
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
At the end of Brooklands runway is the village of Byfleet in Surrey. Pam was born during the Blitz into a hectic rural village background of dogs, cats and farm animals whilst surrounded by the business activities - and certain other activities - of her Grandmother, her rather natural and wild mother, and the Second World War. The reader is taken through the mayhem and adventure of her unusual upbringing in a series of stories - from war to peace, wealth to poverty and from toddler days to teenage years.Early chapters expose a childhood which, to twenty-first century readers looks deprived and indeed abusive although during the period in which the story is set it would not have been that unusual. She and her siblings are brought up by their mother and maternal grandmother, with family quarrels and secrets coming to light.Following a chaotic; sometimes funny, sometimes harsh upbringing and a much-interrupted education she works as a farmhand at fifteen; wanting more she goes to London where she finds 'couture' and 'catwalks'.
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0954837916
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
At the end of Brooklands runway is the village of Byfleet in Surrey. Pam was born during the Blitz into a hectic rural village background of dogs, cats and farm animals whilst surrounded by the business activities - and certain other activities - of her Grandmother, her rather natural and wild mother, and the Second World War. The reader is taken through the mayhem and adventure of her unusual upbringing in a series of stories - from war to peace, wealth to poverty and from toddler days to teenage years.Early chapters expose a childhood which, to twenty-first century readers looks deprived and indeed abusive although during the period in which the story is set it would not have been that unusual. She and her siblings are brought up by their mother and maternal grandmother, with family quarrels and secrets coming to light.Following a chaotic; sometimes funny, sometimes harsh upbringing and a much-interrupted education she works as a farmhand at fifteen; wanting more she goes to London where she finds 'couture' and 'catwalks'.
My Mums My Foe
Author: Dr. Kevin Naicker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483622487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A childs pledge to his dying father leads him to a world of hurt and misery. A world-renowned widowed mum struggles to love her one and only child, who is pursued by another mum. Through a tangled web of deceit, abuse of power, endless heartbreaks, emotional turmoil, unjustified use of medical and military knowledge, the young boy has to mature into a sporting hero and a medical super specialist. With an ingenious and skilful blend of martial arts, clever science, and medicine, the young man travels on a sabbatical to Africa to bring to an end the injustices set upon him and his family and to find love and peace from his mums. Will the tribal witch doctor lead him to happiness or death? One mum has to die for another to smile. This medical, scientific, martial arts suspense thriller will have you guessing to the end, as Kevin Naicker (scientist, medical doctor, and martial artist) takes you on the path of the young mans bid to keep his promise to his father.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483622487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A childs pledge to his dying father leads him to a world of hurt and misery. A world-renowned widowed mum struggles to love her one and only child, who is pursued by another mum. Through a tangled web of deceit, abuse of power, endless heartbreaks, emotional turmoil, unjustified use of medical and military knowledge, the young boy has to mature into a sporting hero and a medical super specialist. With an ingenious and skilful blend of martial arts, clever science, and medicine, the young man travels on a sabbatical to Africa to bring to an end the injustices set upon him and his family and to find love and peace from his mums. Will the tribal witch doctor lead him to happiness or death? One mum has to die for another to smile. This medical, scientific, martial arts suspense thriller will have you guessing to the end, as Kevin Naicker (scientist, medical doctor, and martial artist) takes you on the path of the young mans bid to keep his promise to his father.
Confessions of a First-Time Mum
Author: Poppy Dolan
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788630548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
‘Baby groups: a soft, cosy haven for the new mum, right? Um. No. Or is it just me?’ Stevie’s life has changed beyond recognition since having her first baby. She loves being a mum, but between the isolation and being vomited on five times a day, she really wishes she had someone to talk to. With husband Ted working hard to keep the family afloat, Stevie doesn’t want to burden him with her feelings. Turning to the internet, Stevie starts the anonymous First-Time Mum blog and blasts the rose-tinted glasses of parenthood right off her readers. In the real world, Stevie meets the formidable Nelle and gorgeous Will, along with their own little treasures, and starts to realise that being a ‘perfect mum’ isn’t everything. But when the secret blog goes viral, Stevie must make some tough choices about who she wants to be, and whether she’s ready for the world to know the truth... A perfect laugh-out-loud read for fans of Gill Sims, Fiona Gibson and Milly Johnson. Praise for Confessions of a First-Time Mum: ‘The story and the writing was hilarious, but the sentiment within it was awfully, wonderfully true’ Lilac Mills, author of Love in the City by the Sea ‘A fun, laugh out loud book also with lots of tender moments. Perfect for new mums, old mums and no mums! Everyone can enjoy this book! Would definitely recommend!’ Stardust Book Reviews ‘A fantastic, relatable read for anyone who has children of their own. Hell, even if I didn't have a child, I am sure I still would have loved reading about Stevie’ The Writing Garnet ‘Where the baby wipes was this book when my daughter was born?!’ The Writing Garnet
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788630548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
‘Baby groups: a soft, cosy haven for the new mum, right? Um. No. Or is it just me?’ Stevie’s life has changed beyond recognition since having her first baby. She loves being a mum, but between the isolation and being vomited on five times a day, she really wishes she had someone to talk to. With husband Ted working hard to keep the family afloat, Stevie doesn’t want to burden him with her feelings. Turning to the internet, Stevie starts the anonymous First-Time Mum blog and blasts the rose-tinted glasses of parenthood right off her readers. In the real world, Stevie meets the formidable Nelle and gorgeous Will, along with their own little treasures, and starts to realise that being a ‘perfect mum’ isn’t everything. But when the secret blog goes viral, Stevie must make some tough choices about who she wants to be, and whether she’s ready for the world to know the truth... A perfect laugh-out-loud read for fans of Gill Sims, Fiona Gibson and Milly Johnson. Praise for Confessions of a First-Time Mum: ‘The story and the writing was hilarious, but the sentiment within it was awfully, wonderfully true’ Lilac Mills, author of Love in the City by the Sea ‘A fun, laugh out loud book also with lots of tender moments. Perfect for new mums, old mums and no mums! Everyone can enjoy this book! Would definitely recommend!’ Stardust Book Reviews ‘A fantastic, relatable read for anyone who has children of their own. Hell, even if I didn't have a child, I am sure I still would have loved reading about Stevie’ The Writing Garnet ‘Where the baby wipes was this book when my daughter was born?!’ The Writing Garnet
Mustang Ride
Author: Kelly Wilson
Publisher: RHNZ Adult ebooks
ISBN: 0143770179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The adventures of the Wilson sisters in the American West. This is the third book from bestselling author and television star Kelly Wilson. Kelly's first two books, For the Love of Horses and Stallion Challenges were full of stories from the Wilsons' quest to save wild Kaimanawas from the government cull. This time the Wilsons are taking on a new challenge, to tame mustangs at a ranch in Wyoming for competition in the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Join the Wilsons as they take on an adventure with a surprising twist, and a horse trek across six states in the American west.
Publisher: RHNZ Adult ebooks
ISBN: 0143770179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The adventures of the Wilson sisters in the American West. This is the third book from bestselling author and television star Kelly Wilson. Kelly's first two books, For the Love of Horses and Stallion Challenges were full of stories from the Wilsons' quest to save wild Kaimanawas from the government cull. This time the Wilsons are taking on a new challenge, to tame mustangs at a ranch in Wyoming for competition in the Extreme Mustang Makeover. Join the Wilsons as they take on an adventure with a surprising twist, and a horse trek across six states in the American west.