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BOOK - IS THERE REALLY A HUMAN RACE (and lots more lovely kids books)
Quedgeley, Gloucestershire
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IS THERE REALLY A HUMAN RACE
Hardcover book by actress Jamie Lee Curtis
Rhyming text with play on words about the human race – describing life as a race – but with final message about life
Colourful pictures and large easy to read font.
Excellent condition
£1.00
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Also available:
The 4 books in photo 6 are all lovely educational books with pop-ups, tabs and other special features to interest your child. Would guess maybe age 6+ due to content and as the books need gentle handling to prevent them getting damaged.
Additional books (inc Disney) are also listed but no room for photos. These range from about age 5 to teenage.
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EGYPTOLOGY - SEARCH FOR THE TOMB OF OSIRIS
Hardback book with gilded gold cover with raised Horus hawk and dark red gems. Like new.
Size 27 x 30 cm
Your child can discover the wonders of ancient Egypt through this book, - a blend of fact and fiction. Written as a journal by Miss Emily Sands who in 1926, 4 years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of Osiris. They vanish into the desert never to be seen again. Her journal contains observations, booklets, fold out maps, postcards and more.
£8.00
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CASTLE - MEDIEVAL DAYS AND KNIGHTS
Handbook book made to look like an old book/ folder
Size 24 X 20 cm
Beautiful artistic book of amazing 3-dimensional pop-ups and moving pictures. Each page has a fabulous detailed pop-up or tabs to pull that make the picture move.
Apart from a couple of minor creases on the cover the book is in excellent condition with no damage to any of the special features.
£10.00
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TITANIC - THE SHIP OF DREAMS
Hardback book with front cover featuring a raised porthole and moving hologram picture of the Titanic
Size 32 x 26 cm
A few minor dinks and creases on the cover but otherwise in excellent condition with no damage to any of the special features.
Lovely book that gives the reader an insight into the thrill of going on the Titanic, life on board, experiencing the tragedy (and surviving). Presented as a sort of scrapbook/journal by 10 year old Jack, there is plenty of fact mixed with a little fiction. Lots of delightful novelty features - pop-ups, pull tabs, slide mechanisms, flaps to lift and open, fold-out maps and booklets.
£10.00
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THE EDWARDIAN GROCER
Hardback book that opens to a 3-sided 3D pop up shop
Size 22 x 39cm
Open the book and clip the back covers to the velcro.
A lovely pop-up shop with a booklet of the story of a country shopkeeper. Use the two cut out figures to move them through their day and imagine and re-enact stories - as if a dolls house but a shop instead. Lovely detail - and undamaged
£10.00
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ALSO AVAILABLE
Please search my ads for photos – no more room in this ad!
All books are new/as new/very good condition
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DISNEY:
DISNEY PRINCESS ENCHANTED CASTLE POP-UP / PLAY BOOK/THEATRE
Bend back the covers and tie with the ribbons to create 3 pop up scenes for the card figures of the princesses and their princes. Story book included to help create scenes for your child to act out. Excellent condition.
£8.00
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BOOK - ENCHANTED STABLES
112 illustrated pages
Snow White, Belle and Cinderella feature in lovely stories about their horses
Hardcover - Excellent condition
£5.00
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SNOW WHITE - MY SIDE OF THE STORY
Humorous new spin on an old story
Snow White and the Queen both re-tell the story from a different perspective.
One side of the book tells Snow White’s version of events.
Turn book around for the Queen’s story
Hardcover book - Like New
£5.00
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DISNEY VILLAINS - THE TOP SECRET FILES
Features Disney villains like Cruella, Gaston and Ursula and humorous pictures of them as children and fun characteristics etc
See photo of back cover description
Hardcover book - Like New
£3.00
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THE NEW ADVENTURES OF CURIOUS GEORGE – by Margret and H A Rey
200 page large ( 9 x 9 inches) hard cover book in As New condition
Nice gift for child –
George the curious monkey causes mayhem on his adventures with ‘the man with the yellow hat’ – but it always works out well and has a happy ending.
Fun and educational – nice book to enjoy with a child, or for them to read alone when older.
Lots of fun pictures and large font.
In this nice collection of stories George goes to
-chocolate factory
-animal shelter
-makes pancakes
-feeds animals at the zoo
-goes to a movie
-hot air balloon show
-ski slopes
-has a strange dream
£5.00
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WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE
Very thorough and explanatory book - even adults can learn from!
New Book
£3.00
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WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
Beautiful hardback illustrated book of the classic tale
Good sized print with lots of lovely illustrations
Vintage but in excellent condition, like new
Could be suitable for gift
Can be combined with the following book and DVD
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS COLLECTION
4 stories including the classic characters
Fully illustrated with lovely pictures throughout
Good condition
DVD - DISNEY - ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR TOAD
- Animated version of classic Wind in the Willows (approx 30 mins)
- Animated version of classic book - Icabod Crane and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (featuring Bing Crosby) (approx 30 mins)
WIND IN THE WILLOWS Bundle -
£10.00 for 2 books and Disney DVD
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ALSO AVAILABLE
Suit approx. age 9-14, esp boy
2 Hardback books in AS NEW condition
Educational as contain well known stories like Dracula, Sweeney Todd etc
as well as stories from famous authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens
Suit age approx 10+ / teenage /young adult/ adult
£6.00 EACH
TALES OF TERROR
9 true and fictional stories with illustrations - 80 pages
Dracula. - The Curse of the Mummy (King Tut)
The Body Snatchers (Burke and Hare) - Monstrous Creation (Frankenstein) -
Sentence of Death - Barbarous Barber (Sweeney Todd) - Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Icabod Crane) - The Devil's Bargain - Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes)
HAUNTED
250 pages
Cover says:
Spine chilling tales from beyond the grave
Terrifying tales for readers of all ages
Author biographies and illustrations provide an introduction to some of the most fiendish characters in literature
Some of the authors featured are Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe. See photos for contents
£6.00 EACH
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10 TRUE TALES OF WW II HEROES
Softcover - Scholastic/educational
As new
£3.00
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FRED BASSETT books
Daily Mail Cartoon Strip
Lovable Bassett Hound
4 books are almost As New
1 is older but still very good condition
Suitable for children and adults
£7.00 for 5 books
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LORD OF THE FLIES – William Golding
Soft cover book in good condition
£1.00
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OF MICE AND MEN - DVD movie and notes
Especially suitable for studies at GCSE English
DVD Movie of John Steinbeck novel generally studied for GCSE level
New/ sealed - bought for my son but due to delivery problem by the time received he had finished studying it. Also included are about 40 pages of notes on the book and the author which I summarized from the internet.
£3.00
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