Creak... Crash... BOO! Shivering skeletons, ghostly pirates, chattering corpses, and haunted graveyards...all to chill your bones! Share these seven spine-tingling stories in a dark, dark room.

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life.

From reading under the covers to watching shadows dance on the wall, these fourteen vigorous verses show that a child's life begins at bedtime.

Guess what's growing in the basement... A baby monster Minneapolis Simpkin is hiding it down there. But a monster is a hard thing to keep secret, especially one that hiccups and cries, and gets bigger every hour.

The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the formidable Danish stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred's best hope is his sword, Serpent-Breath, for his only allies are Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and Guthred, a slave who believes himself king. Rebellion, chaos, fear, and betrayal await them in the north, forcing Uhtred to turn once more, reluctantly, to the liege he formerly served in battle and blood: Alfred the Great.

Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, up and away he flies, high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds, stars and planets until suddenly, he runs out of petrol! Miles from earth, the boy crashes into the moon and waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold and lonely, a friendly martian appears from the darkness, also with a broken aircraft. Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox. Can the boy find his way back home safely and will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend?

A major new examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit, including his complete unpublished draft version of the story, and many little-known illustrations and previously unpublished maps by Tolkien himself.

An endearing classic of childhood memories of an idyllic midwestern summer from the celebrated author of Farenheit 451. He stood at the open window in the dark, took a deep breath and exhaled. The street lights, like candles on a black cake, went out. He exhaled again and again and the stars began to vanish. Douglas smiled. He pointed a finger. There, and there. Now over here, and here... Yellow squares were cut in the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on. A sprinkle of windows came suddenly alight miles off in dawn country. Everyone yawn. Everyone up. In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions. Dandelion Wine is a quirky, breathtaking coming-of-age story from one of science fiction's greatest writers. Distilling his experiences into Rites & Ceremonies and Discoveries & Revelations, the young Spaulding wistfully ponders over magical tennis shoes, and machines for every purpose from time travel to happiness and silent travel. Based upon Bradbury's own experiences growing up in Waukegan in the 1920s, Dandelion Wine is a heady mixture of fond memory, forgiveness, magic, the imagination and above all, of summers that seemed to go on forever.

The first book in the Comickers Art series, Comickers Art: Tools and Techniques for Drawing Amazing Manga explores the various drawing tools and art techniques necessary to create successful and authentic manga. This book will teach you how to use pencils, markers, brushes, and software to create all styles of manga, and features the manga artists who best use each of the key techniques. Four color finished work from each of the featured artists is also included to inspire.

Being undead sucks. Literally. Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he's ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he's one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues. But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn't supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy's erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue. And that really sucks.

From the author of the million copy bestselling The Devil Wears Prada. Three best friends. Two resolutions. One year to pull it off. Emmy has just split with her boyfriend of five years. A serial monogamist, she suddenly realises how much she’s missed the thrill of single life. A new job travelling across the globe could offer her the one thing she is craving, so she vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires. Yet all she wants is an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her and more, she just can't refuse. The three friends make a pact – come hell or high water, they must change one thing in their lives by the end of the year…

Developed in association with teachers, the fantastic new Collins Easy Learning Study Dictionary takes a completely new approach to language learning for Junior Secondary students with the innovative addition of an embedded thesaurus. This dictionary has been developed to ensure that the dictionary entries are presented in the most clear, easy-to-use way possible. With full sentence definitions, and examples to show context for every thesaurus synonym, this title combines the best features from Collins' critically-acclaimed School Dictionary and School Thesaurus. Thesaurus entries appear at their dictionary definition, highlighted in blue, making alternative words easier to find than ever before. Word webs, a unique treatment for the most frequently used words in English, really help users get to grips with how the words work.

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Collins Easy Learning English Age 7-8 develops literacy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. Hours of fun activities. Builds literacy skills. Boosts confidence. Develops a love of learning.

Collins Easy Learning English Age 8-9 develops literacy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help support learning. Hours of fun activities. Builds literacy skills. Boosts confidence. Develops a love of learning.