If you like your cakes delicious, cute and stylish, then you ll love cake POPs the delicious little treats designed by one of London's most fashionable bakeries. Cake POPs are here to stay. Since launching onto the cake scene a couple of years ago, these moist cakes on sticks have been a huge hit amongst anyone with a sweet tooth. In her second book, POP Party, Clare O'Connell presents 40 brilliant ideas to create the perfect party for any occasion, including brand new cake POPs designs, pretty party props and decadent layer cakes. Everyone will love the cute tortoise POPs, or why not make the quirky science POPs for a clever friend? Make the corpse bride and groom POPs for Halloween, or a beautiful ruffle layer cake with Swiss meringue icing for a special birthday, and decorate your event with colourful paper pompoms and fun tassel garlands. The basic techniques section will tell you everything you need to know for your cake POP journey, and each recipe and project has clear, step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instructions so you'll be cake POPping in no time!Clare O'Connell has always loved baking, and after undertaking work experience at a combined bakery and chocolate shop, she decided to start selling her own cake POPS. She runs her business, the Pop Bakery, from her family home in West Hampstead, London, and supplies cake POPS to Harvey Nichols and the Sanderson and St Martin's Lane hotels. Clare was also provided Cake POPS for a Topshop launch party in Bath in southwest England and will be working with Topshop on similar events across the UK. Visit her website at www.popbakery.co.uk

Pop-up illustrations and verses divulge how, one by one, six members of the MacFizzet family monstrously disappear during a visit to Hickyacket Hall, leaving behind only young Neville, who expects "it was all for the best."

Xander planned a panda party. Yes, a dandy whoop-de-do! But Xander was the only panda. Just one panda at the zoo. The zoo’s paucity of pandas doesn’t impede Xander’s party planning for long. He decides to invite all the bears. But Koala protests. She’s not a bear—she's a marsupial! Does that mean she can’t come? Xander rethinks his decision to invite only bears, and “Calling all bears” evolves into “Calling all creatures.” The Newbery Medal author Linda Sue Park introduces animal taxonomy in a wonderfully engaging way, and the celebrated artist Matt Phelan’s charming ink and watercolor paintings are the icing on the cake. A read-aloud whoop-de-do!

If you like cake, and you like chocolate, then you'll love cake POPs - the delicious little treats that are a cross between a cake and a lollipop. Discover cake POPs - a combination of moist cake and a sweet candy coating, moulded onto a lollipop stick and then decorated to create a whole host of characters. Clare O'Connell of the Pop Bakery teaches you all you need to know, from how to create the cake balls - a mouth-watering mixture of chocolate cake and icing - to dipping the cake balls in the special candy coating. Then she explains her unique method of painting the POPs using cocoa butter. Choose from 25 scrumptious recipes, from cute panda POPs to a family of Russian dolls. Clare also introduces you to her special layer cakes, which are embellished with classic flower cake POPs. With clear, step-by-step photography and Clare's easy-to-follow instructions, cake POPs are incredibly fun and easy to bake and make. Both children and adults will adore these bitesize delights that are perfect for parties and special occasions. So what are you waiting for? Start cake POPping now!Clare O'Connell has always loved baking, and after undertaking work experience at a combined bakery and chocolate shop, she decided to start selling her own cake POPS. She runs her business, the Pop Bakery, from her family home in West Hampstead, London, and supplies cake POPS to Harvey Nichols and the Sanderson and St Martin's Lane hotels. Clare was also recently commissioned to provide Cake POPS for a Topshop launch party in Bath in southwest England and will be working with Topshop on similar events across the UK. Visit her website at www.popbakery.co.uk

"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness. "Each of the essays in this debut collection reads like a mini-memoir . . . in which the author reflects on her experiences of young love, trauma, and transcendence through discussions of art and music . . . with an intimacy that is at once tender and expansive." —New York magazine

A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths. In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography. In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of "standardized light popular music," Dialectic of Pop tracks the transformations of the pop form and its audience over the course of the twentieth century, from Hillbilly to Beyoncé, from Lead Belly to Drake. Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity and inauthenticity, original and copy, aura and commodity, medium and message. Gayraud demonstrates that, far from being the artless and trivial mass-produced pabulum denigrated by Adorno, pop is a rich, self-reflexive artform that recognises its own contradictions, incorporates its own productive negativity, and often flourishes by thinking "against itself." Dialectic of Pop sings the praises of pop as a constitutively impure form resulting from the encounter between industrial production and the human predilection for song, and diagnoses the prospects for twenty-first century pop as it continues to adapt to ever-changing technological mediations.

A New York Times bestseller: “The ultimate cake pops resource . . . if you love Bakerella’s cute and colorful style, pick this one up. It’s a visual treat.” —Kitchn What’s cuter than a cupcake? A cake pop, of course! Wildly popular blogger Bakerella (aka Angie Dudley) has turned cake pops into an international sensation! Cute little cakes on a stick from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as baby chicks, ice cream cones, and even cupcakes these adorable creations are the perfect alternative to cake at any party or get-together. Martha Stewart loved the cupcake pops so much she had Bakerella appear on her show to demonstrate making them. Now Angie makes it easy and fun to recreate these amazing treats right at home with clear step-by-step instructions and photos of more than forty featured projects, as well as clever tips for presentation, decorating, dipping, coloring and melting chocolate, and much more. “Popularized by a blogger known as Bakerella, cake pops have taken over as the new cupcake . . . In the last few years they’ve become an international sensation, and many cities are going cake-pop crazy.” —Monterey Herald “The American queen of cake pops.” —Fine Dining Lovers “The book is absolutely gorgeous. Each project is filled with photos and tips to guide you through the whole process from start to finish. For anyone who loves Martha Stewart type creative baking, this is a must-have book!” —Savory Sweet Life

10 pages of trendy statement earrings as fun as your personality. Simply pop out a pair and attach the included hooks or clip ons. Match your earrings to the moment and show the world what you care about. Sassies are fun to wear, look amazing, and start conversations. Featuring earring designs by Emily Spitler, Karen Kurycki, Michelle Mruk, Cassidy Clawson and Katie Turner. Ages 8+. Hardware is made of plated brass and tested for heavy metals and nickel release.

Angelina and Alice are having their very first sleepover and Angelina has a special activity planned- a bedtime dance show! Angelina, Alice and Cousin Henry put on a fantastic performance in this brand-new Angelina adventure.