Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately, Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him, & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! The fashion reporter from the Tippington Times is having a terrible day
- she muddles up her words, forgets her notepad & generally gets in a fluster. Can Kirsty & Rachel help her out?
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Kirsty & Rachel are excited to be entering a charity fashion show where children get to show off their own designs. Unfortunately, Jack Frost thinks everyone in the world should dress like him, & steals the Fashion Fairies' seven magical items to put his naughty plan into action! The fashion reporter from the Tippington Times is having a terrible day
- she muddles up her words, forgets her notepad & generally gets in a fluster. Can Kirsty & Rachel help her out?
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To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the Greeks. By twenty-five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles & was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another, more complex story. Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy, this is the story of Alexander as you have never heard it before: raw, intimate, thrilling
- a story of extraordinary daring & unimaginable endurance; of wanton destruction & murderous intrigue
- the epic tragedy of a man who aimed to be more than human.

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Continuing the epic saga of Alexander the Great, Alexander: The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes Alexander's quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander & his men storm Persian fortresses & harbours, crippling King Darius' domain of land & sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedonian armies. Ruthlessly, Alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands. But there is danger ahead. Despite the defeat of Darius, the Island City of Tyre & the Towers of Gaza prove to be formidable obstacles. Undeterred, Alexander surges forth over land & sea to the mysterious land of Egypt. & there, in the sands, lies the Oracle of Ammon, waiting to reveal an amazing truth to Alexander. One that will change his already amazing life. ...

Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king
- Philip of Macedon
- & his sensuous queen, Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip & the wild passions of Olympias, & how, together, they formed Alexander, a young man of immense, unfathomable potential, capable of subjugating the known world to his power, & thought of by his contemporaries as a god. Alexander's swift ascent to manhood, as a protege of Aristotle & close friend of Ptolemy & Hephiaston, & the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel. This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off & fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones & scholarly detail.

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To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the Greeks. By twenty-five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental battles & was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another, more complex story. Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy, this is the story of Alexander as you have never heard it before: raw, intimate, thrilling
- a story of extraordinary daring & unimaginable endurance; of wanton destruction & murderous intrigue
- the epic tragedy of a man who aimed to be more than human.

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Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? Mesmeric beauty, consuming desires, an insatiable hunger. Then premature death. This is the story of a boy, born to a great king
- Philip of Macedon
- & his sensuous queen, Olympias. It tells of the stern discipline of Philip & the wild passions of Olympias, & how, together, they formed Alexander, a young man of immense, unfathomable potential, capable of subjugating the known world to his power, & thought of by his contemporaries as a god. Alexander's swift ascent to manhood, as a protege of Aristotle & close friend of Ptolemy & Hephiaston, & the start of his great adventure to conquer the civilised world is recounted in this awe-inspiring novel. This is a wonderful evocation of the far-off & fascinating civilisation of ancient Greece, revealed in vibrant tones & scholarly detail.

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The concluding volume in the epic series of Alecander the Great's tumultuous life Alexander's epic quest continues into the heart of Asia & on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian Army march ever onward in search of glory, crushing resistance at every turn. The culture & beauty of Babylon is quickly ravaged & the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes & cinder. An empire is destroyed & a new & bloody era begins. But there are other things on Alexander's mind. An ambitious project to unite the peoples of the empire under one homel&, begins to obsess him. There are rebellions & bloodshed, but the curious beauty of Queen Roxanna gives Alexander the strength to fulfil his destiny... This is a truly compelling, romantic & exciting book, & a fitting conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy. ...

Everyone loves Willy the wind-up mouse, while Alexander the real mouse is chased away with brooms & mousetraps. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be loved & cuddled, thinks Alexander, & he wishes he could be a wind-up mouse too. In this gentle fable about a real mouse & a mechanical mouse, Leo Lionni explores the magic of friendship. ...

Whatever became of Alexander after that famously bad day? & did you know that Judith Viorst is his mother? & what happens to her passion for household neatness & orderliness, her deep devotion to schedules, her compulsive yearning to offer helpful advice when Alexander -- now grown up, married, & the father of three -- moves his family into his parents' house? What happens is controlled, & sometimes not so controlled, chaos, as lives & routines are turned upside down & the house is overrun with scattered toys, pacifiers, baby bottles, sippy cups, pink-sequined flip-flops, jigsaw puzzles, & fishy crackers.

With her characteristic sparkle & wit, Viorst relates her efforts to (graciously) share space, to become (if only a little bit) more flexible, to (sort of) keep her opinions to herself, & even to eventually figure out how to unlock the safety locks of the baby's (expletives deleted) bouncy seat. She describes how she & her husb&, while sometimes longing for the former peace & tranquillity of unravished rooms & quiet dinners for two unaccompanied by cries of " Oh, yuck!" survived & relished the extended visit of the Alexander Five. She also opens our eyes to the joys of multigenerational family living & to the unexpected opportunities to grow that life presents -- even under the most unlikely circumstances.
Several generations of readers surely will relate to this funny & loving book, enhanced throughout by Laura Gibson's delightful two-color drawings.


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