Product Description: Once dismissed as a cozy world of teddy bears and fairies, the arrival on the scene of numerous highly original, contemporary, and "cool" graphic artists in recent years has transformed perceptions of children's book illustration...read more

Product Description: Artists at the Fry describes the background to works in the Fry art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex. The gallery s North West Essex Collection is based on the artists of Great Bardfield includi ng Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious, Michael Rothens tein, John Aldridge and Kenneth Rowntree, who live d in this small Essex village between 1930 and 19...read more

Product Description: The successful book illustrator starts by understanding his author’s flight of fancy, then rendering the ideas and actions imaginatively in pictorial terms. This unusual and inspiring book was written for art students and ambitious beginners...read more

Presents a collection of classic and contemporary stories by such authors as Ray Bradbury, Saki, Rudyard Kipling, and Margaret Mahy, all featuring supernatural themes. Reprint.

When Adam enters a secret cupboard at his school, he is transported through time to 1942, into the middle of a World War II air raid.

Product Description: The former "Well Loved Tales" series have been redesigned with brighter inks and coated paper to enhance the appeal of these fairy tales to young children. They are all intended for one level of readability and are considered ideal bedtime stories...read more

When cocaine is discovered in his suitcase by airport security, Brakwa must find out who put it there in order to prove his innocence

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the British statesman, soldier, and historian.

A biography of the nineteenth-century British monarch whose sixty-three year reign over one-quarter of the world's population covered a period of great industrial and social change

Product Description: Book by Jessop, Joanne

A brief biography of Mary Stuart tracing the events which led her to political exile and death in England.

Spotlights the devastating eruption in A.D. 79 of the volcano Vesuvius and the consequent destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii in a study of Roman society, volcanoes, and archaeology

The life story of Elizabeth I, the queen who led England from division and unrest to peace and prosperity

Traces the life of the Italian artist and introduces the world of Renaissance Italy where, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, a great flowering of art, culture, and learning took place.