When one of Dilly Duckling’s feathers goes flying away from her, she sets off in a panic to get it back, but despite the help from Spike the porcupine, Nibble the field mouse, and others, it can’t be caught and so Dilly Duckling has to go home without it where she learns from her mother that losing a baby feather is just a necessary part of growing up.

Documentary in Practice provides a unique approach to practical documentary-making. Through fascinating analysis of real-life production situations, Jane Chapman shows the challenges and issues faced during the filmmaking process by a range of both well-known and up-and-coming documentary-makers. She also brings her own personal experience as a seasoned documentary producer and teacher to advise on how students can gain invaluable insight from these projects.Throughout this compelling text, a variety of producers past and present provide their inside project stories and production records, including scripts, fundraising proposals, budgets, diagrams, post-production records and reviews. Across continents, every project and its makers are different whether they are famous names from the canon', television freelances, art-house directors, documentary-maker activists or first-time filmmakers but they all face a range of challenges:* how to connect visual approach to content idea * morality of camera presence * complaints and ethical challenges * legal issues and censorship * budgetary factors influencing choices * conflict with commissioning editorsAll students of media studies as well as aspiring documentary-makers will find this book a refreshing introduction to the choices available for filmmaking and the issues that may emerge during the process.

Product Description: It's the day all baby penguins are going to learn to swim, but Little Pip is afraid.... Nothing scares Little Pip more than the thought of swimming in the deep dark ocean -- she would much rather learn to fly just like other birds do...read more

While Dora is out looking for their breakfast, all six of her chicks disappear.

Describes the parental behavior of Emperor penguins, focusing on how the male keeps the egg warm until it hatches and how the parents care for the chick after it is born.

Product Description: It's nearly Christmas, but Grumpy Badger's in an intolerable mood. The forest is a flurry of activity, with everyone putting up the Christmas tree, wrapping presents, and making yummy treats. Didn't they know - that Christmas and the long cold winter are meant for sleeping straight through? "Piffle!" shouts Grumpy Badger...read more

Product Description: This picture book features over 28 best-loved nursery rhymes, including 'Humpty Dumpty', 'Jack and Jill', and 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'.

Honey the cat is determined to help Happy the dog bury his bone, even though he does not want any help.

As she goes around seeing the babies of the other farmyard animals, Dora becomes less and less proud of her first eggs--until they hatch into cute chicks

A baby elephant describes how he and his mother spend their days together.

Product Description: Documentary is fast changing: with the digital revolution and the enormous increase in Internet usage, the range of information and outlets for distribution continues to become more diverse. In this context, are the traditional themes and frequently irreconcilable critical positions of study still valid – or are they changing, and if so, how? In short, what are the issues for documentary studies now? The starting point of Issues in Contemporary Documentary is that although documentary history cannot be ignored, the genre needs to be understood as complex, multi-faceted, and influenced by a range of different contexts...read more

Product Description: Small children mesmerized by vehicles and big machines will find more than their fill in this bright, bustling board book with lengthening pages.LET'S BUILD! It takes a lot of building trucks to put up a house! A forklift carries bricks, a steamroller squashes the ground, a bulldozer pushes and scoops, a cement mixer churns, a digger makes holes, a flatbed trailer carries materials, and a crane lifts them up and down...read more

Product Description: Small children mesmerized by vehicles and big machines will find more than their fill in this bright, bustling board book with lengthening pages.LET'S GO! Oh, no, there’s a traffic jam! How many vehicles are in the way? Let’s see - there’s an ambulance, a garbage truck, a tractor and trailer hauling hay...read more

Product Description: It's bedtime, and as usual, Noah is squished and squashed by his many sleepy siblings. "Too many rabbits!" mutters Noah. After being squeezed and squashed awake, Noah ventures outside and asks his friend, Albatross to take him to the land of the North Star...read more

A simple retelling of the Nativity Story features a poetic text and primitive-style illustrations that follow Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the shepards, angels, and wise men.

Simple, rhythmic text and colorful illustrations express to the youngest reader that even if mommies chomp and chatter or even stomp or pitter-patter, the love between a mother and her child is always strong and true.

A special Christmas story from the creators of 'BEAR SNORES ON'.

Unhappy in his cramped, cold hole, Mortimer Mouse moves into a nativity scene thinking it is the perfect home for him, until he discovers who truly belongs there.