When the three friends stumble upon Father Christmas buried in a pile of snow while driving along the snowy, winding road to visit Clarita’s family for Christmas, they are shocked. Obviously, they need to help him, but how? Their eyes widened in astonished awe when Father Christmas revealed his rescue plan. Meanwhile, readers have given TCT Cooper a four-star rating on Amazon. In the second instalment of the Tinkerbell adventure series, delighted young Mini Cooper fans and readers are again invited to join the chubby and cheeky green Mini Cooper and her friends in a journey filled with imagination, fun, and laughter. Clarita, a carefree young lady, and TomTom, who loves to flaunt his navigational skills, add to the excitement as they embark on their adventures making for a funny and entertaining journey.

When the three friends stumble upon Father Christmas buried in a pile of snow while driving along the snowy, winding road to visit Clarita's family for Christmas, they are shocked. Obviously, they need to help him, but how? Their eyes widened in astonished awe when Father Christmas revealed his rescue plan. Meanwhile, readers have given TCT Cooper a four-star rating on Amazon. In the second instalment of the Tinkerbell adventure series, delighted young Mini Cooper fans and readers are again invited to join the chubby and cheeky green Mini Cooper and her friends in a journey filled with imagination, fun, and laughter. Clarita, a carefree young lady, and TomTom, who loves to flaunt his navigational skills, add to the excitement as they embark on their adventures making for a funny and entertaining journey.

Clarita opened Tinkerbell’s door and climbed into the driving seat behind Tinkerbell’s steering wheel. Using a special key, Clarita, started Tinkerbell’s engine. Tinkerbell brummmed into action. “I’m Ready!” brummmed Tinkerbell. “Wait, wait!” giggled Clarita, “We must first tell TomTom where we want to go.” TCT Cooper cleverly stretches your imagination with fun and laughter in this series of adventures about Tinkerbell, a chubby cheeky green and sometimes stubbornly proud Mini Cooper and her friends as they enjoy going on their adventures and meeting new friends along the way. Clarita is a happy-go-lucky young lady with curly hair and freaky clothes. TomTom is an intelligent boffin navigator who prides himself on his knowledge of how to get around. Tinkerbell started to giggle softly at how funny Mr Mizzi looked wearing very, very clean white gloves and very, very dirty overalls. Rolling her eyes, Tinkerbell did not know what was worse, jumping like a kangaroo or squeaking.

There are many ways when sitting quietly whereby our emotions may be stirred. By pictures, static or moving, by sound, recorded or natural, by smell and even touch. However, the medium by which our minds have most latitude to wander is the written word. This can be in many forms but the one which arguably makes the lasting impression is poetry. Circumstances may change but the memories live on.

The magical adventures of Dogbert the German shepherd and Tito the English bulldog, continue in Book 2, but now with a brand new unexpected addition to their lives: Shadow, the golden retriever puppy.Once again, it's an inspirational message for children and adults of all ages that is based on the real life experiences of Trevor Donovan and his dog family, and how he's learned to deal with the debilitating realities and challenges of Degenerative Myelopathy through Dogbert the German Shepherd. As told through the eyes of Tito the English bulldog, you'll watch Dogbert struggle to discover his own magic miracle, his own inner peace, and how to believe again. The photos are real and the battle is one filled with hope and understanding. But most of all, this is truly Dogbert's physical and emotional journey of strength and courage.

A sensitive and lovingly told story mixing fact, action, letters, journals, song and oral history. Pearson writes with a rich clarity and intelligence about his great grandfather, Charlie Collins, the boy who ran away to sea to become head stoker on the celebrated scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger (1872-76). Finding his feet as a blacksmith back in Brighton with wife Mary and family, we learn about the joys, hardships and everyday heroism of their lives within the grand sweep of 19th Century history. Andrea Watts, writer and creative writing tutor In 1872, HMS Challenger, powered by sail and steam, left Portsmouth for an epic voyage of ocean exploration. A Challenger's Song combines a lifetime reimagined with a fresh account of the voyage seen through the eyes of the crew and scientists, drawing on their own letters and accounts. 'I had read about the voyage of HMS Challenger before, but this combination of imaginative reconstruction and factual information for me shed a new light on life for those on board ... my appreciation of the men and boys whose hard work kept the Challenger going, and made possible the collection of samples which led to a transformation of our understanding of the deep oceans, was increased enormously ... The sea shanty section at the end is a nice bonus! Angela Colling, Editor, Ocean Challenge.

Fourteen-year-old Ronan Boyle is the youngest and lowliest recruit to the secret Garda, an Irish police force that handles the misdeeds of numerous magical creatures. Ronan’s parents are in jail, but Ronan is convinced that they were framed by the wee people. So, despite his small size, poor eyesight, and social awkwardness, he’s determined to learn all he can in the Garda in order to prove his parents’ innocence. To show he’s got what it takes, he’ll have to confront a fiery leprechaun, a sinister harpy, and a whole world of monsters hidden in plain sight next to real-life Ireland. Fast paced, action packed, and completely hilarious, this is the start to an exciting new middle-grade series by actor and writer Thomas Lennon.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

"A hilarious and helpful insider's guide to launching a successful writing career in Hollywood. . . . The only compass readers will ever need to navigate the treacherous waters of filmmaking"--("Kirkus Reviews," starred review).