Today you're the fire engine driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the fire engine's controls to switch on the siren and turn on the flashing lights! Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.
JUMP INTO THE DRIVER'S SEAT TO ENTER A WORLD OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY! With this new and innovative picture books series, children can race a fire engine to the rescue, build a house with a digger, and climb aboard a tractor to help out on the farm! Vehicle drivers on a building site have a very important job. They are in charge of the big machines that mix, dig, and lift. Now, it's your turn to be the driver! I'm the Digger Driver puts the reader in charge with a dashboard design across the bottom of each page—children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the vehicle’s controls. The narrative is embedded with key early learning concepts, and each book ends with a sense of achievement as the task is completed. • Inspires imaginative play and builds self-confidence by putting children in charge. • Encourages problem-solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colors, shapes and numbers. • Children will love making their own sound effects, acting out real-life situations and spotting their favorite vehicles.
Written by world-leading fertility experts and edited by mums who have undertaken multiple cycles of IVF and know what it takes to succeed, this guide advises you on the entire IVF process and how to maximise your chances of success. All IVF topics are covered, from how to choose your fertility clinic, to understanding the stages of an IVF cycle, to how to prepare yourself physically and emotionally for the treatment. Looks at how to optimise your nutrition and how to improve egg and sperm quality Examines the growing trends of egg freezing and donor-assisted IVF Shares real-life stories of a variety of IVF journeys and their inspiring outcomes Includes key contributions from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the UK's independent regulator for fertility treatment and researchIVF: All You Need to Know is an essential handbook for couples and individuals who are considering IVF, who want to find out what's involved, and who want to be as well prepared as they can be. It is also for those who may have already tried IVF, have experienced failed cycles and want to boost their chances of success next time around.
Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet.
When an out-of-work actor discovers his bedsit once belonged to an obscure, suicidal painter, he turns his talents to re-creating the ultimate site-specific performance… As a teenage girl drifts from depression into a permanent state of sleep, she becomes the focus of both scientific interest and an unexpected, cult following... Against a backdrop of hooliganism and hostility, an asylum seeker writes letters home assuring his family how welcoming England is... Many of the characters in Martyn Bedford’s stories find themselves at a point of redefinition, trading in their old identity for something new. Whether it is an act of retreat or escape – fantasising about storming out of a thankless job, or just avoiding a bad-tempered husband for a few moments on Christmas day – they each understand the first step in changing a reality, is to reconstruct it. ‘Martyn Bedford is the genuine article, a writer of unmistakable flair and accomplishment.’ - New York Times ‘Haunting and intimate portraits of vividly different lives that get under your skin and stay there.’ - Jeremy Dyson 'Letters Home further establishes Martyn Bedford as a stand-out writer of highly memorable fiction.’ - Jacob Ross
Kann man Glorias Erzählung wirklich trauen? Als Uman neu in ihre Klasse kommt, ist die 15-jährige Gloria hin und weg. Uman scheint unendliches Selbstvertrauen zu besitzen, weiß, was er will, und tut, was er will. Und erstaunlicherweise bekommt er auch immer, was er will. Sogar den Platz neben Gloria. Die anderen mögen ihn manipulativ finden, aber Gloria ist einfach nur fasziniert. Diese Freiheit, diese Selbstsicherheit wünscht sie sich auch. Und Uman ist gerne bereit, sie darin einzuführen. Eine Nacht im Zelt in Umans Garten und dann kann nichts mehr die beiden halten. Sie brechen einfach auf, lassen alles hinter sich. Doch wer ist Uman wirklich? Eigentlich kennt Gloria ihn gar nicht. Ihre Reise ist eine Reise ins Ungewisse, die jederzeit in die totale Katastrophe führen kann – oder auch ins vollkommene Glück.
What happens when you are finally given the perfect man, only to discover that perfect can get a little old?
Zurück ins Leben. Shivs Leben ist vollkommen aus den Fugen geraten: Während eines Familienurlaubs in Griechenland verunglückte ihr jüngerer Bruder Declan – und Shiv gibt sich die Schuld an seinem Tod. In einer psychiatrischen Klink gelingt es ihr, nach und nach Erinnerungen an unbeschwerte Tage am Meer, an den lebensfrohen, quirligen Declan und an den gut aussehenden Griechen Nikos, in den sie sich dort Hals über Kopf verliebt hatte, zuzulassen. Und an das Unglück, das sich dennoch so unausweichlich zusammenbraute. Was ist damals wirklich geschehen? Und welche Rolle spielte Nikos dabei? Noch einmal muss Shiv durch die Hölle gehen, um sich endlich Klarheit zu verschaffen.
14-year-old Alex Gray wakes up one morning to discover he's not in his own bedroom. More surprising is that he doesn't recognize his hands, or his legs. When he looks in the mirror he gets the shock of his life! How is it possible that Alex has become another boy - a boy who everyone calls Philip?
Was, wenn dir plötzlich ein Fremder aus dem Spiegel entgegenblickt? Als Alex eines Morgens in den Spiegel sieht, muss er sich erst einmal übergeben. Statt eines schmächtigen, rothaarigen Jungen mit Sommersprossen blickt ihm ein braun gebrannter, muskulöser Typ entgegen. Alex steckt im falschen Körper - und in einem komplett falschen Leben. Flips Leben. Mit dessen Familie, dessen Freunden, dessen Schule. Alex will nur eins: raus aus diesem Albtraum, zurück in seinen Körper.