This bestselling collection of classic nursery rhymes includes favourites such as 'Pat-a-Cake', 'Rock-a-Bye Baby', 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' and 'Humpty Dumpty', as well as ABCs, lullabies, finger games, counting rhymes, cumulative tables and nonsense verse. Illustrated in glorious colour by Faith Jacques.
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Carrie's War by Nina Bawden is an unforgettable Second World War story.'I did a dreadful thing...or I feel that I did, and nothing can change it...'It is the Second World War and Carrie and Nick are evacuated from London to a small town in Wales, where they are placed with strict Mr Evans and his timid mouse of a sister.Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with Hepzibah Green who tells wonderful stories, and the strange Mister Johnny, who speaks a language all of his own. Carrie and Nick are happy to visit Albert there, until one day when Carrie does a terrible thing - the worst thing she ever did in her life...Based on her own childhood, Nina Bawden's enchanting story Carrie's War has delighted readers for almost 40 years.'Nina Bawden is without question one of the very best writers for children' Daily Telegraph***Perfect for fans of Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.***Nina Bawden is one of today's best writers for both adults and children. she has often used her own childhood experiences in her books - Carrie's War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig.
«Le métier de visseur de capuchons de tubes de dentifrice ne permettait pas à Mr Bucket de subvenir aux besoins de sa nombreuse famille : Mrs Bucket son épouse, grand-maman Joséphine et grand-papa Joe, grand-papa Georges et grand-maman Georgina. Sans oublier son fils Charlie dont le rêve le plus fou était de manger du chocolat ! Aussi, quelle ne fut pas l'émotion du jeune garçon en apprenant que Willy Wonka invitait cinq enfants à visiter sa merveilleuse chocolaterie, la plus célèbre du monde entier. Les cinq enfants qui découvriraient un ticket d'or caché dans cinq bâtons de chocolat...»Entouré de quatre comédiens qui donnent vie à ces étonnants personnages, Claude Villers raconte l'une des histoires les plus célèbres de Roald Dahl. Une interprétation exceptionnelle au service d'un texte d'une grande drôlerie !