The Night Before Christmas and Other Festive Favourites Мур Кларк Клемент, Pierpont Lord James Walker Books

A loving twist on a favorite Christmas tale! Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, everyone was quiet... including the mouse! • Discover this adorable rendition of a beloved Christmas story, told from bestselling baby and toddler creator Sandra Magsamen. Featuring sweet rhymes and adorable illustrations, this is the latest in Sandra's tall book line

First Stories: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas is the perfect introduction for young children to Clement Clarke Moore's popular poem. Push, pull and slide the pages to see reindeer magically flying through the sky, sugarplum fairies dancing and stockings filling up with presents • This well-loved poem is beautifully imagined for a new generation by illustrator Miriam Bos

Под редакцией Розмари Грей перед вами книга, без которой не обходится ни один рождественский чулок, книга, которая положительно передает дух сезона. Заглавное стихотворение, знакомое детям и взрослым во всем мире, представляет собой сборник рассказов и стихотворений на рождественскую тематику, которые гарантированно заинтересуют и позабавят читателей от мала до велика. Эта праздничная сокровищница, способная вызвать смех, а иногда и сентиментальную слезу на самых сухих глазах, идеально подходит для чтения вслух или для того, чтобы свернуться калачиком в уютном уголке. Самому Скруджу было бы трудно удержаться от распространения копий в рождественское утро! • Книга на английском языке • Edited by Rosemary Gray Here is a book no Christmas stocking should be without, a book that positively distils the spirit of the season

The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series • Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime • This is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle • 'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them' • Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

В сборник вошли повесть-сказка "Роверандом", написанная Дж.Р.Р. Толкином для своих детей, а также "Стихи из Алой книги" о приключениях Тома Бомбадила и сказки "Фермер Джайлз из Хэма", "Кузнец из Большого Вуттона" и "Лист работы Ниггля", которые знакомят читателя с удивительным миром, полным эльфов, драконов и волшебников • Книга на английском языке • Available for the first time in one volume, this is the definitive collection of Tolkien's five acclaimed modern classic 'fairie' tales in the vein of 'The Hobbit', fully corrected and reset for this edition and all beautifully illustrated in pencil by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee • The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Largely overlooked because of their short lengths, they are finally together in a volume which reaffirms Tolkien's place as a master storyteller for readers young and old

The scent of almonds • A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off Fjallbacka - and then a body is discovered in the library • An elegant death • Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique • Dreaming of Elisabeth • Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear… • The widows' cafe • Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe • Showcasing Camilla's acclaimed talent for combining heart-stopping plots with heart-warming characters, this collection of tales will thrill and delight in equal measure

Книга «Рождественская ночь» Клемента Кларка Мура давным-давно стала классикой и выдержала массу переизданий по всему миру. Иллюстрировали её многие выдающиеся художники, добавляя раз за разом новые штрихи к портрету забавного старичка Санта-Клауса. И вот, оправдывая ожидания книголюбов, достойным наследником этой замечательной традиции выступил всемирно известный австралийский художник Роберт Ингпен. Его иллюстрации в полной мере передают трепетное ощущение волшебства и ожидания праздника, наполняя наши сердца теплом и радостью

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume • J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dur and the rise of Sauron • It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Numenor

Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a fat, awkward outsider in her perfect family, especially next to her golden-boy big brother Byron. She's got a lot to deal with – her weight, her best friend moving away, the mean girls at school – not to mention a boy who seems to like her! To survive, she decides to follow the 'Fat Girl Code of Conduct' to make herself acceptable, unnoticed ... invisible • It seems to be working until something unthinkable happens and, before her eyes, Virginia's flawless family begins to fall apart. As her world spins out of orbit, Virginia realises that breaking the Fat Girl Code might be the only way to create a life that belongs to her • Carolyn Mackler's acclaimed book has been updated for a new audience and is as relevant, funny and full of heart as it was when it was first published fifteen years ago

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant or lover. Michael Kohlhaas depicts an honourable man who feels compelled to violate the law in his search for justice, while other tales explore the singular realm of the uncanny, such as The Beggarwoman of Locarno, in which an old woman's ghost drives a heartless nobleman to madness, and St Cecilia, which portrays four brothers possessed by an uncontrollable religious mania. The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world