An uplifting story about a bear without a smile from the bestselling creator of Percy the Park Keeper. When Albert le Blanc arrives in Mr Jolly's toy shop, the other toys think he's the saddest-looking bear they have ever seen. They decide to put on a show to cheer him up. Albert tries to tell them he's not sad, he just looks sad, but they are all too busy making preparations! As a finale, Sally the hippo puts on a lipstick & performs ballet, but she falls on top of Albert & leaves a huge lipstick grin on his face. Everyone laughs!especially Albert! ...

The wonderful sequel to Albert le Blanc, from the highly-regarded creator of the Percy the Park Keeper books. Albert le Blanc's friend, Sally the toy hippo, has been bought by a little girl. Every day, they walk past the shop & Sally gives Albert a wink, as he sits in the window. Albert waves back & wonders if he will ever be chosen as a child's best friend. The, one day -- disaster -- Sally tumbles out of the girl's rucksack & is snatched away by a stranger before anyone can stop them. Stuck inside the toy shop, not daring to move, it seems there is nothing Albert can do to help his friend! Will there be a happy ending for Sally? &, will there ever be a happy new home for Albert? ...

The wonderful sequel to Albert le Blanc, from the highly-regarded creator of the Percy the Park Keeper books. Albert le Blanc's friend, Sally the toy hippo, has been bought by a little girl. Every day, they walk past the shop & Sally gives Albert a wink, as he sits in the window. Albert waves back & wonders if he will ever be chosen as a child's best friend. The, one day -- disaster -- Sally tumbles out of the girl's rucksack & is snatched away by a stranger before anyone can stop them. Stuck inside the toy shop, not daring to move, it seems there is nothing Albert can do to help his friend! Will there be a happy ending for Sally? &, will there ever be a happy new home for Albert? ...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations & on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music has played a central part in the artist s output, serving as a metaphor for his method of working in which fusion & rhythm, improvisation & repetition, & density & harmony of sounds are turned into pictorial gestures. This monograph maps out a route through the whole of Albert Oehlen s production, from his best-known works to less familiar ones & from the 1980s to the present day, with reproductions of paintings in the Pinault Collection & other major private collections & international museums ...

Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old Australia, a place where humans never venture, & animals still rule. Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback
- not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal
- but now he's lost & close to death.

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Anyone who has ever had the privilege of watching Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals knows the sound of a hit. It's the sound his bat makes when it connects with the ball. It's a sound that's been heard countless times since his 2001 rookie season. That year, he took the league by storm by posting some of the most fantastic offensive stats of any rookie ever-and he's been doing the same ever since, shattering records & helping his team win games, including the 2006 World Series, with clutch hits & amazing home runs.

This biography offers an up-close look at this superstar's life & the most memorable moments of his outstanding career to date.

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Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him & Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts & failures to act & his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book. The author had access to Speer, his family & friends & his private papers. ...

A picture book about making new friends from the award-winning Jenni Desmond. Waa! Waa! Waa! Albert's favourite tree won't stop crying. What can be the matter? How can the bear cheer up his old friend? A funny & charming picture book about making friends in the most unexpected places from the award-winning Jenni Desmond. ...

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre, Breton, & Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has continued to resonate with artists, writers, & audiences. In this book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma, space, & relationality in Giacometti's art & the texts that respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett & Cees Nooteboom, & the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which recasts the iconic L' Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of History. During his lifelong quest to represent the human form, & to locate the humanity at the heart of conflicting conceptions of modernity, Giacometti returned to the key notions of depth & flatness, memory & attachment, through his sculptures & writings. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life & work, & an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history of our own time, & our ways of looking; about the nature of human attachment, & the humility of relating to art. ...

Fifty years after the passing of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), this major new monograph illuminates the fundamental aspects of his oeuvre & technique in sculpture. It is based on years of extensive research & restoration work on seventy-five plasters that came to the collection of Kunsthaus Zurich as a bequest from Bruno Giacometti, Alberto's youngest brother. For Giacometti, plaster was of great importance as a material, far more than just an intermediate stage between clay model & bronze cast. It allowed him to paint or rework his objects in a vast variety of ways. A significant number of his sculptures indeed exist just in a plaster version. Featuring masterpieces from every stage of his career, this book focuses on Giacometti's artistic approach to the material nature of his chosen media, offering an insight into the creative process of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. With the plasters as a core, the selection also comprises works in other materials, such as marble, wood & bronze. ...