Creator: Jennifer Bassett
Publication date: 1995-09-07
RRP: £17.62
Price: £16.68
Review Pride and Prejudice: 2500 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) / OUP Oxford:
Creator: Ian Beck
Publication date: 1985-10
Dewey code: 398
Price: £2.50
Review Oranges and Lemons: Musical Party Games for Young Children / Oxford University Press:
Publication date: 1998-09-24
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.50
Review The Witches (Puffin audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:"This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. " So begins one of Roald Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's parents who are devoured by an escaped rhinoceros in James and the Giant Peach), he is taken in by his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who has learned a storyteller's respect for witches and is wise to their ways. The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale-a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie. Of course, there's adventure here along with Dahl's trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque. Dahl also communicates some essential truths to children: if they smoke cigars, they'll never catch cold, and, most importantly, they should never bathe, because a clean child is far, far easier for a witch to smell than a dirty one. (Ages 7 to 10, or read aloud to younger children) -Susan Harrison "This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. [+]" So begins one of Roald Dahl's best books ever, and, ironically, it is such a great story because the premise is perfectly plausible from the outset. When the narrator's parents die in a car crash on page two (contrast this terribly real demise with that of James's parents who are devoured by an escaped rhinoceros in James and the Giant Peach), he is taken in by his cigar-smoking Norwegian grandmother, who has learned a storyteller's respect for witches and is wise to their ways. The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centrepiece of the tale-a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie. Of course, there's adventure here along with Dahl's trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque. Dahl also communicates some essential truths to children: if they smoke cigars, they'll never catch cold, and, most importantly, they should never bathe, because a clean child is far, far easier for a witch to smell than a dirty one. (Ages 7 to 10, or read aloud to younger children).
Run time: 165 min.
Creator: Sue Cook
Publication date: 1994
Price: £19.99
Review Crimewatch UK: True Crime Stories Solved / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Terrence Hardiman
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-10-30
Price: £7.99
Review King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:
Creator: Timothy West
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1998-11-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.99
Review Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1997-09-01
RRP: £10.00
Price: £9.99
Review Letters from a Diplomat (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-07-10
Dewey code: 468
RRP: £14.67
Price: £9.35
Review Espana Viva Cassettes 1-3 (España Viva) / BBC Active:
Edition: Har/Cas
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 468
RRP: £52.88
Price: £32.45
Review Using Spanish: Multimedia Pack (Assimil With Ease) / Assimil:
Creator: Jim M'Guinness
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 1995-02
Dewey code: 784
RRP: £8.17
Price: £14.49
Review Kids Songs: A Holler-along Handbook Bk. 1 (Book & Cassette Pack): 1 / Klutz Press Inc:
Publication date: 1995-03-01
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £7.50
Price: £6.00
Review Robert F.Kennedy: In His Own Words / Soundworks,U.S.:
Dewey code: 973
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.30
Review JFK, The Kennedy Tapes: Highlights of the Original Speeches of the Presidential Years (Penton Audio):
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.65
Review The Art of Travel / Penguin:The urge to be somewhere else is one of the abiding traits of human nature; in The Art of Travel author Alain de Botton (The Consolations of Philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life) sets out to discover why in his own inimitably witty and discursive way. Of course, the proximate reasons we travel are many and various: as de Botton explains. Using the travel experiences of great writers and artists, like Van Gogh, Ruskin, Huysmans and Wordsworth (in Provence, Venice, Belgium and the Lake District respectively), de Botton shows that men will travel to see beautiful buildings, or climb beautiful mountains, or make love to beautiful (and comparatively amoral) women. But, using the same artists, de Botton also shows that there is an underlying theme to all travel: the urge for difference, for the rhapsody of change. That this is an urge more often disappointed than gratified only makes the condition more poignant. One of de Botton's best chapters, on Flaubert, amplifies this tragicomic point: the French novelist spent enervating years in genteel Normandy longing for the sensual splendours of Egypt, then, when he finally reached the pyramids, he promptly lapsed into maudlin nostalgia for rainy, bourgeois Rouen. If there are flaws in this, de Botton's latest and perhaps most readable book, they are the usual suspects: just occasionally the author comes across as a bit long-winded and self-regarding. However, this is such a pleasant and effortless read even these flaws can be taken as endearing characteristics-like the lizards who kip in the bath in your otherwise idyllic holiday villa. -Sean Thomas.
Publication date: 1993-06-01
Dewey code: 430
RRP: £28.49
Price: £45.59
Review German: Levels 1-3 (Learn in Your Car) / Penton Overseas Inc:
Publication date: 1994-02-17
Dewey code: 458
RRP: £21.44
Price: £18.32
Review Uno: Audiocassette 1 and 2: v. 1&2 / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1989-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £42.49
Price: £78.80
Review Talking to Strange Men: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Authors
- J P Lupson
- Doug Embleton
- Elspeth Eggington
- Friedrich Dehmel
Publication date: 1997-04-15
Dewey code: 430
RRP: £31.14
Price: £28.38
Review Working with German - Level 2 Cassette New Edition: Level 2 (Working with) / Nelson Thornes:
Publication date: 2000-09-18
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £149.99
Review Bravo Two Zero / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Angela Wilkes
- Katie Daynes
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.99
Review French for Beginners (Book & Tape) / Usborne Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Kaye Umansky
- E. Nesbit
- Jeremy Strong
Publication date: 2004-09-06
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Princesses and Fairies: WITH The Karate Princess AND The Fwog Pwince AND The Story of the Amulet / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
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