At Home With English is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of progressive tasks such as filling in missing letters and words, copying, and building sentences and descriptions, children learn about vowels, different word endings and beginnings, blending letters together, and how to write creatively. The full colour illustrations and highlighted words encourage development of literacy skills in a fun and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are age-appropriate for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

At Home With French is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of tasks such as colouring, drawing, copying, and writing, children learn the French words for greeting people, meeting friends, animals and birds, family members, parts of the body, and much more. The fun illustrations encourage development of language skills in an engaging and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build early confidence in French.

At Home With Maths is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Each double page is devoted to a different maths topic and, using a variety of tasks such as adding and subtracting, naming shapes, and reading graphs, children will learn about patterns, shapes, adding, subtracting, measuring, money, diagrams, and time. Each page is divided into a Warm Up task devoted to number work, a Learn About task to teach a particular concept, and Now Try These tasks to give a practical application. The colourful illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each double page spread! This book is ideal to build confidence in maths at primary school.

At Home With Maths is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Each double page is devoted to a different maths topic and, using a variety of tasks such as adding and subtracting, counting in steps, doubling and halving, children will learn strategies for doing simple calculations in their heads. Each page is divided into a Warm Up task devoted to number work, a Learn About task to teach a particular concept, and Now Try These tasks to give a practical application. The 2-colour illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each double page spread! This book is ideal to build confidence in mental maths at primary school.

At Home With Verbal Reasoning is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of questions, puzzles, and challenges, this book develops basic skills for solving non-verbal reasoning questions such as linear sequence, story sequence, 4x4 matrix, triangular grid, code breaking, and much more. The 2-colour illustrations encourage development of problem solving skills in a fun and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are age-appropriate for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

At Home With Punctuation is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of progressive tasks such as filling in missing words and punctuation marks, copying, and building sentences, children learn about the correct use of commas, apostrophes, speech marks, contractions, capital letters, and much more. The 2-colour illustrations and highlighted words encourage development of literacy skills in a fun and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are age-appropriate for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When John Trenchard stumbles upon the coffin of the legendary pirate Blackbeard, he discovers a clue to the whereabouts of a long-lost diamond. Soon John enters a world of dark secrets and smuggling, and embarks on a dangerous adventure in search of Blackbeard's treasure. This classic tale of smuggling and treasure is the latest welcome addition to the Oxford Children's Classics series.

Children learn best when reading is fun and these Story Games Flashcards are a great way to practice reading and storytelling skills, which will help your child's creative writing. Play games to sequence and retell some of your favourite stories and make some of your own versions! Carefully created to practise phonic sounds and letters, each game has concise, easy to follow instructions which will require no preparation — just sit down with your child and have fun!

'After all that — how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures — amorous and reckless — do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism. World-weary and self-destructive, Pechorin is alienated from those around him yet he is full of passion and romantic ardour, sensitive as well as arrogant. His complex, contradictory character dominates A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, in which the intricate narrative unfolds episodically, transporting the reader from the breathtaking terrain of the Caucasus to the genteel surroundings of spa resorts. Told in an engaging yet pointedly ironic style, the story expresses Lermontov's own estrangement from the stifling conventions of bourgeois society and the oppression of Russian autocracy, but it also captures a longing for freedom through acts of love and bravery. This new edition also includes Pushkin's Journey to Arzrum, in which Pushkin describes his own experiences of Russia's military campaigns in the Caucasus and which provides a fascinating counterpoint to Lermontov's novel.

Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city. The collection includes works by Russian authors ranging from Anton Chekhov and Yuri Koval to Larisa Miller and Marina Boroditskaia, collating nineteeth — and twentieth-century tales, as well those written by contemporary authors. The stories are intriguingly varied — an account of life in the city's infamous high security prison, a tale of a lady with a supernatural gift for repairing household devices, the story of another pitiful lost dog who nearly joins the Moscow Circus — and together they shed light on the changing nature of Moscow society across the centuries. The next instalment in a series of successful translated anthologies of stories set in and around a particular European City. Moscow Tales combines two genres, travel writing and literary fiction and provides an insight into the lives of those who live in Moscow or have written about it.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

At Home With Grammar is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of progressive tasks such as filling in missing letters and words, copying, and building sentences and descriptions, children learn about parts of speech, singular and plural, phrases and clauses, and much more. The 2-colour illustrations and highlighted words encourage development of literacy skills in a fun and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are age-appropriate for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

At Home With Spanish is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of tasks such as colouring, drawing, copying, and writing, children learn the Spanish words for greeting people, meeting friends, animals and birds, family members, parts of the body, and much more. The fun illustrations encourage development of language skills in an engaging and easy way. The 2-colour illustrated step-by-step activities are simple enough for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build early confidence in Spanish.

At Home With Verbal Reasoning is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 7-9 years, to do at home. Using different themes and a variety of questions, puzzles, and challenges, this book develops basic skills for solving verbal reasoning questions such as anagrams, crosswords, code breaking, changing letters to make new words and much more. The 2-colour illustrations and highlighted words encourage development of problem solving skills in a fun and easy way. The illustrated step-by-step activities are age-appropriate for children to work through on their own, or equally perfect to do together with an adult giving encouragement. Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently — plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in writing at primary school.

Sam is pony-mad and dreams of being a brilliant rider. But her nerves often get the better of her, even when she discovers that she can actually talk to horses. Mulberry is a beautiful black pony, but she's so grumpy no one wants to ride her. Except for Sam... Can Sam conquer her fear of falling off and ride Mulberry to victory in the Meadow Vale Summer Show? Or will Mulberry's bad behaviour ruin everything for them both?