Frances Thomas

Dear Comrade

Ross Collins

Little Monster is discovering opposites - from hot and cold to young and old, from good and bad to happy and sad. Join him as he explores his surroundings! A perfect board book for babies learning all about their world.

Little Monster's Book of Opposites

In Little Monster’s Book of Numbers, readers can count from ten red apples, to five baby birds learning to fly, all the way down to one adorable little monster! Simple images are perfect for preschoolers.

Little Monster's Book of Numbers

Sally Gardner

In her illustrated diary, Polly writes about her family, her plans to run away, her school friends and ex-friends, and her boring hamster Horace.

Polly's Really Secret Diary

A witty, lively and fun-filled novel in diary format, now available in a new look jacket

Polly's Running Away Book

Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market , My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird and In the Deep Midwinter has often been overshadowed by her brother Dante Gabriel. Drawing on many sources, this study enables the reader to piece together a more complete picture of this woman whose nature was passionate and contradictory.

A Biography

Christina Rossetti

Imagine the isolation of a place where, within several miles of home, there were no people other than immediate family-no modern conveniences, telephones, television, internet, newspaper or mail delivery, supermarkets or shopping malls. Imagine a terrain sometimes more hospitable to mesquite trees, rattlesnakes, and jackrabbits than to human inhabitants. Imagine hot, dry weather that could change abruptly as a blue norther rolled in across the plains, dropping temperatures thirty or forty degrees before nightfall. Could you thrive in such an environment? The author did, and she reflects on these vicissitudes with both nostalgia and humor.

Eight Miles From Nowhere

Captured by pirates as a small girl, Eirene is now slave to the princess Cassandra of Troy. Troy was once a peaceful and beautiful city but ever since Queen Helen of Sparta abandoned her husband and daughter for the Trojan prince Paris, the Greek armies led by Agamemnon of Mycenae, have been waging war on Troy. Troy's champion is the dazzling Hector, eldest son of King Priam, but the Greeks have the great warrior Achilles. Who will be victorious?The gods have taken sides in this war, but they have their own plans too and when Cassandra offends the god Apollo, he takes a terrible revenge on her. Eirene's position becomes even more difficult. She has dreams of fire and destruction but can her devotion to the goddess Athene save her?

Burning Towers

Little Monster is worried - worried that it is going to leave home and travel away all on its own leaving Mother and Father Monster behind. But Little Monster soon realises that travelling away does not mean losing touch and even though it may be a little scary sometimes, you do have to do scary things when you are growing up.A story full of the warmth of paternal love and the joys of growing independence by the award-winning duo, creators of SUPPOSING.PRAISE FOR MAYBE ONE DAY'Witty, striking and reassuring, this is an oddity to treasure' Sunday Times'A cracking read which encourages children to explore their own imaginations' Waterstones Books Quarterly

Maybe One Day

Ruth Brown

Mr Bear Lives up to his nickname - he's as cross and fierce as a bear with a sore head! Mr Bear is left to grow crosser and older alone in his big, dark house on the hill. But, despite his reputation, Mr Bear shows he truly has a good, kind heart and a caring nature when he rescues a cruelly-shackled dancing bear from a fair, releases it into the wild - and becomes its friend. . .

Mr Bear & the Bear

Surely a diary is private uabut when Tom Palmer finds one thrown in a skip, he can't help but read it. The diarist, Hannah, writes about the attraction she feels for her charismatic English teacher. Their growing relationship and the frantic build up to her sister's wedding is compounded by her strange behaviour and Tom becomes increasingly concerned about her welfare. Hannah's is a compelling story and even though he frets about reading her personal thoughts, Tom just can't put it down. She mentions glimpsing a ghostly figure of her own self as a down-and-out and Tom is told that to see such a ghost of oneself (a Fetch), is an omen of one's death. As Tom sets out to return the diary to its rightful owner, he begins to worry about what has happened to her and that the diary could be the only record of her disappearance. Will he find the real Hannah before the fetch takes her life?

Frances Thomas

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