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Galileo Spirals Out of Control
ISBN: HB: 9783035803723, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Who is throwing melons and pumpkins from the highest tower in Pisa? It's the mad scientist Galileo Galilei, confounding the old ideas of the Greeks around Aristotle. This strange old fellow does science everywhere, even in the taverns! When Galileo m...
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£10,99
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If... 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781947440050, Getty Publications, March 2020
48 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 30 colour illus.
Take a fantastical journey where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. The Getty's first children's title, Sarah Perry's delightful picture book of "surreal...
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£12,99
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New York Day & Night
ISBN: HB: 9783791373782, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
30 pp., 30x20 cm, illustrations throughout
Sometimes your eyes can play tricks on you, especially in the dark. This enchanting picture book shows how New York City can look quite peculiar at night. Each brightly colored spread is overlaid with a sheet of translucent blue paper and when lifted...
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£11,99
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ABC
ISBN: HB: 9785912082542, Prestel Publishing, Arca, July 2018
74 pp., 9.9x9.9 cm, illustrations throughout
Every letter in this unusual ABC book opens a door into the treasure-stores of one of the world's great museums. the book is aimed not only at children who start learning their letters, but also at a slightly older age group and at parents who want t...
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£12,95
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ABC Mini Edition
ISBN: HB: 9785912083341, Prestel Publishing, Arca, June 2018
64 pp., 20.8x20.8 cm, illustrations throughout
Miniature souvenir version of the large-format ABC book. Enlarged details of paintings, sculpture, jewellery, netsuke, Scythian gold-all these masterpieces of world culture created by human hands across many centuries can be found here.
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£4,99
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"Catarina the Wise" and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
ISBN: PB: 9780226462790, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again... So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may...
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£15,00
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Little Whale A Story of the Last Tlingit War Canoe
ISBN: PB: 9781602232952, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 line illus., 1 map
Keet, a ten-year-old Tlingit Indian boy, stows away for a voyage on his father's canoe... and soon finds himself caught in the middle of a wild seastorm. The story carries him far from his home village, and when he makes land, he winds up right in th...
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£12,50
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Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
ISBN: HB: 9781435144743, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
456 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.
This novel tells the classic tale of the mischievous "Master of Sherwood Forest", who lives the outlaw life with Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and his band of Merry Men, bedevilling the implacable Sheriff of Nottingham during the reign of Ric...
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£18,00
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Story of King Arthur and His Knights Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
ISBN: HB: 9781435162112, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, August 2016
456 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.
When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone, his future as the King of England is foretold. This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table, his securing o...
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£18,00
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Pollyanna
ISBN: HB: 9781402797187, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2013
208 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
Poor Pollyanna. Her father has just died and now she has to go live with her Aunt Polly. But even her Aunts unfriendliness wont get Pollyanna down. No matter what goes wrong, she always finds something to be glad about. But when a horrible accident l...
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£8,99
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