Christian Darkin

“Act Normal!” - The top 3 bestselling series of children's chapter books for boys and girls. Funny, popular, fast moving and exciting adventure books to read in any order. ***** The kids, girl 8 & boy 4, found it hilarious. Would recommend it ***** *****This is a really fun book for little children learning to read… it will generate lots of questions***** Act Normal And Don't Tell Anyone About The Dinosaur In The Garden: Jenny's latest experiment has accidentally turned her chickens into dinosaurs. Her brother, Adam thinks this is great. He decides to feed the same experiment to some ostriches at a local farm. This isn't going to end well, but Jenny is used to strange things happening in her life, and thinks the best move is to just ACT NORMAL...

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Act Normal - and Don't Tell Anyone about the Dinosaur in the Garden

It seemed as though a dragon, for it could be nothing else, had reared out of the ground in the night . . . and then been turned to stone by the first rays of the dawn sun. Starting with the living beast, the Megalosaurus herself, over 144 million years ago, The Skull follows the Marchant family from generation to generation, exploring key moments in history shaped by radical philosophical and scientific change. Whether feeding in a frenzy, seen as evidence of the devil, kept as a token of scientific heritage or used an easy way to make a quick buck, the Megalosaurus skull continues to change lives over millennia, long after her untimely demise. In this superb fictional tale, scientific and historical fact is blended with drama, intrigue, and life-changing scientific discoveries that not only affect the Marchants, but science, philosophy and civilisation as we know it.

The Skull

“Act Normal!” - The top 3 bestselling series of children's chapter books for boys and girls. Funny, popular, fast moving and exciting adventure books to read in any order. ***** The kids, girl 8 & boy 4, found it hilarious. Would recommend it ***** *****This is a really fun book for little children learning to read… it will generate lots of questions***** Act Normal And Don't Tell Anyone About The Zombie Robots: “The problem with grown-ups is that they spend far too much time playing on their mobile phones, and not enough time playing with their children.” All the adults in the town are in the grip of the addictive “Zombie Robots” video game, so nobody notices when Jenny and Adam accidentally create a plague of real zombie robots made out of the old and broken toys left abandoned under their beds. Things quickly get out of control, and it soon becomes obvious that just acting normal and hoping the problem goes away isn't going to work…

Act Normal and Don't Tell Anyone About the Zombie Robots

The first full-length book in the Act Normal series of kids chapter books ages 7-12 It started off as a way for computer coding fan Jenny to pick birthday presents for her friends. But Jenny and her brother Adam are soon being chased across the world by sinister magic fairy dolls, robot forklifts, and a mad party planner... In Act Normal And Don't Tell Anyone About The Present Machine there are detailed instructions on how to: Kidnap your own grandmother Build a giant magnetic liquid monster Code an artificial intelligence which hypnotises children Steal a train And Make diamonds in your kitchen. Can Jenny do all this and then save the boys and girls of the world from being turned into toy-buying zombies? Find out in Act Normal And Don't Tell Anyone About The Present Machine...

Act Normal And Don't Tell Anyone About The Present Machine

Mark Towse

Lee Reynolds

Joost Korngold

Chris James Hewitt

Simon Tzysko

So you've got a copy of After Effects and an idea of what this professional motion graphics and effects tools can do...but what can you really do with After Effects? How far can you push it? What are the best effects that you can create? What are the essential skills and techniques that you need to really make your creations stand out? After Effects Most Wanted answers these questions in a refreshing and practical way. Looking at a wide variety of projects, the original artists tell you why, and exactly how they created their masterpieces. The authors, all professionals who use After Effects to make a living, share with you the secrets of their successes and extend beyond that to give you the reasons why they did things the way that they did. Moreover, the accompanying CD has their creations available at your fingertips and the simple, step-by-step instructions in the book show you how they created these pieces. The projects covered are diverse, from a thought-provoking work by renowned and controversial artist Simon Tsyko, a work featured by Adobe in their motion gallery, to a television commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola by Peter Reynolds. Other authors include: Joost Korngold (www.renascent.nl) and Chris James Hewitt, whose Relokation Ne is the featured work on the BD4D (By Designers For Designers) web site, Christian Darkin, a digital video journalist and author, and Mark Towse, who offers two pieces, one for TV and one for the cinema. Without long, redundant discussions of tools and application packages, After Effects Most Wanted is a book that delivers the techniques, skills, and effects that will let you bring your creations to life.

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