This book seemed to have been from an east European fairytale. Maybe Slavic or Russian. The illustrations were realistic and vivid a bit disturbing considering I read this as a child. My memory of the...
I'm trying to find this book i read when I was younger, it was about 1998 I think. Its a paperback, with only about 30 pages. It is about a monster being under a boys bed and I remember that in the...
My nephew wants to learn to draw cartoons. I would like to buy him a 'how to' book for his birthday but don't know where to start. He is nine. Anyone know of a good title to look for?
Anybody got one? If so, what's your opinion? Worth buying one? Our library service is trialling ebook downloads in the new year (if I'm still there), and I have in any case put one on my Christmas...
When there are two authors of a book of fiction, how does it work? I can understand a factual book being co-written but does anyone know how two authors write a fictional story?
Can anyone remember a children's book from 1960s or early 70s about a set of chatacters who could change shape - I seem to remember one of them got stuck in a tin can.
Evening all, I've read and enjoyed the Agetha Raisin and Hamish McBeth books. Has anyone read any other books by Ms Beaton or under her other name Marion Chesney? If so were they of similar humour to...
I remember there were what looked like giant bumble bees and i think a monster type thing climbs a mountian and something about chewing gum. I only remembered it recently after reading a book to my...
The story involved a boy being sent to live on a farm where the animals started turning violent. At one point the characters find a computer game that seems to mirror what's going on at the farm. The...
Ive read the Harry Potter and Twilight series' and love them, I'm wanting something similar to read. I think it was the fact they were fantasy set in the real world that interested me, is there...
Has anyone ever heard of UWP or have had experience working with them? Can't find too much information about them and want to make sure they are a legitimate business providing good service. Thanks..
Hi. When I was about 7 (20 years ago) my brother and I used to borrow a book from the library called The Spys Handbook. It was a little red book with a hardback cover and inside were little pictures...
I help at the local school as a volunteer reader. I've got an 11 year old boy who never reads, so doesn't know what sort of book he likes. Does anyone have a suggestion as to which books I might read...
I remember a short story many years ago where an illiterate shopkeeper makes a good living in his small shop. He says his margin is 3% ~<or similar~> when in fact he buys for a penny and sells...
For my college course I have to create a story sack that incorporates language, literacy and numercy skills into the story. It has to be a traditional story eg. Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian...