Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. This time, a new, mysterious villain is introduced, a young boy in extremely peculiar dress, who appears to bear a terrible grudge against Boyface – for no immediately obvious reason.

However, nobody helps Boyface quite as much as his extremely shouty friend, Clootie, who is introduced early on wearing a saucepan over her face.So far we have published The Funny Life of Pets, The Funny Life of Teachers and The Funny Life of Sharks. This is the second outing of James Campbell’s young hero, Boyface, and this time the loveable ‘stripemonger’ is accompanied by the world’s worst pet… a tartan badger. p>Read about how we'll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice.

By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. Publisher's description: Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).BoyFace is a clean, plant-based line of anti-aging skin care products for men developed with the latest innovative skin care science in mind. First Stories: Three Billy Goats Gruff is the perfect introduction for young children to this classic nursery tale. I think partly it is because this has all the elements of the surreal humour he loves, but is actually just not as laugh out loud funny.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Thankfully Bloomsbury took a chance with me on this and with the collaboration of Rob Jone's illustrations we have created something entirely new and different.This elegant collection is aimed at the confident home-cook who has an interest in using ingredients such as yuzu, sesame, miso and matcha. I'm always thinking ahead trying to decide which ideas to leave in and which to leave out; which tangents and diversions to take. This is a huge privilege for me as getting anyone to read more is something I'm very grateful to be a part of. Despite the badger’s ‘qualities’, Boyface cares for the abusive beast with clemency and tolerance and is rather upset to find him missing one day, replaced by a mysterious, threatening letter and a clown’s red nose.

Ridiculous humour like this is used sparingly throughout the story and is very well timed – just when you think the narrative is in danger of lurching towards seriousness, someone will drop a telephone box full of water down a flight of stairs. He travels around schools and theatres nurturing a love of storytelling and inspiring the children's own creativity too. When Boyface gets a message from his dad, hidden in a message in a bottle, he is determined to go and rescue him.Clootie is desperate to ‘scrag’ the evil clown but Boyface is not a violent character and, instead, decodes various pearls of wisdom from his father that help him on his quest.