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Leonie Lord Books

Discover how there is a season for everything in this antidote to an instant world.

The concept of time is hard to grasp. From a single minute to a full century, hearts beat, trees bloom and grow – and a human lives a lifetime.

This book takes 18 different periods of time – from a single minute; to an hour; to over a century – to show the process of life, looking at biology in all its forms, from plants, animals and human biology too.

In one minute, learn that your heart beats over 100 times. In one day, learn how a dragonfly unfurls a pair of wings. In a season, watch a bear hibernate for winter. In over 80 years, see a human live a lifetime. Packed with real science but rooted in the deeper things in life, this poetic non-fiction anthology is sure to prompt questions between a parent and child.

This book is a perfect antidote to an instant world
· Discover how there is a season for everything in this book that explores the process of life
· A full illustrated step-by-step guide to lifecycles and the process of living things
· Watch and wonder at the journey of an apple tree from bud to fruit, watch a rainforest grow over 60 years and be amazed at all a human life contains from its beginnings as a baby to old age

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Finding a cute creature he can’t bear to abandon, a knight discovers love, friendship and family.

Down in the hollow, where creepy tangles grow, a knight finds something green, something grotti. He explains that he can’t stay because he is very busy (“I’ve got beasts to battle and kingdoms to defend!”). But he can’t just leave this sad, lost – and very big-eyed! – baby monster, can he?

With originality and humour, Leonie Lord explores the way babies enter our lives: demanding new levels of care and attention, but also filling us up with love and stealing our hearts for ever.

This was read aloud to Beanstalk staff at a recent conference and there were people crying with laughter! A wonderfully funny rhyming book filled with plenty of tongue twisters which children and adults will love trying to read out loud together. Practice also makes perfect with this and often children will refine their technique first before their reading helper. A great book for adults as well as it shows you how many words rhyme with ‘otter’!

Whiffy Wilson is sure he doesn’t want to go to school. Worried that he doesn’t belong there because he doesn’t know how to read and write already and that the other children may not like him, Whiffy thinks that school is definitely not for him. But when his friend Dotty gently takes him along, Whiffy realises that at school the children learn through play and that there are lots of new friends just like him. He even gets to play football! It doesn’t take Whiffy long to realise that he loves school after all.

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