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Children Just Like Me by various
$29.95 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction
Throughout this year a young photographer has been meeting and talking to children from all over the world. The children describe their dreams and beliefs, hopes and fears as well as the day-to-day events of their lives. In "Children Just Like Me", each child speaks only for him or herself but the conve ...Show more
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded shoppi ...Show more
Christmas Garland: Ten Evergreen Poems by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
It's almost impossible to imagine Christmas without the natural embellishments of holly, ivy and mistletoe. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. A fall of snow, a returning robin, gath ...Show more
Christmas Lights: Ten Poems for Dark Winter Nights by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
The switching on of festive lights in towns and villages across the land announces the fact that Christmas is fast approaching. It also marks the start of real winter. This delightful selection contains ten brand new poems by leading contemporary poets and comes with a limited edition poem postcard. We ...Show more
Christmas Movies: A Double Bill of Festive Poems by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
What could be more joyful than the moment when merry with turkey and plum pudding we tumble onto the sofa to watch a film we've seen umpteen times before? And what could be more jolly than doffing hat, scarf and gloves to venture out into the cold for the year's festive favourite at the local cinema? Th ...Show more
Christmas Spirit: Ten Poems to Warm the Heart by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
These ten specially commissioned poems celebrate the joy of Christmas in all its variety. Some evoke the bustle of untangling fairy lights, of shopping and cooking and opening presents, while others celebrate our more ancient seasonal traditions, such as collecting holly and ivy to bring into the house. ...Show more
Christmas Stocking: Five Festive Poems for Children by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Every child should have a Christmas Stocking. This selection of poems for children has been made by poet George Szirtes and makes a delightful gift something to read at bedtime as the excitement of Christmas approaches, or to be shared afterwards as a reminder of the laughter and fun. From a trip to the ...Show more
Christmas Together: Twelve Poems for Those We Love by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry and Plays
Christmas together... It sounds almost ordinary but it's something we've come to appreciate all over again in recent times. These delightful poems celebrate shared moments from the mayhem of a kitchen full of steam and chaos to carols sung around the fire after dark. And of course "together" means more ...Show more
Classic Ghost Stories by Various
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Reading Level: near fine
Do you believe in ghosts?Not monsters, not floating objects or unexplained coincidences, but an actual presence - a flicker in the corner of the eye, a shadow in a darkened hallway, a hand pressed against the window, or a figure at the end of the bed. Sometimes they are a malevolent warning, or they com ...Show more
Classic Ghost Stories by Various
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Vintage Classics selection of haunting tales by some of the masters of nineteenth-century literature. Includes spine-chilling stories by Charles Dickens, M.R. James, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and E. Nesbit.As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy fire, it's the perfect time ...Show more