Acting Skills will show you how to get started on a wide range of performance projects. Packed with ideas and techniques, it includes tips and advice on a whole range of acting skills, such as improvisation and miming and how to make the best use of props, make-up and lighting. This book takes you through some of the skills you might need to put on a performance of your own.
Part of the series, Superskills. Six books packed with tips on how to improve your technique in a range of creative fields aimed at children aged 9+.
The eighth Lost Diary – factually accurate, fictionally funny! William Shakespeare himself needs no introduction, but not everyone knows the secrets of his success!
How could a man so busy with life in Elizabethan England have had time to write all those plays and poems? Enter stage right, Egbert Noah Bacon – one of his writing group who, quill in hand, gives us a new perspective on the Bard himself and of a fascinating period of English history:
Includes Spanish Armada, Gunpowder Plot, Queen Elizabeth First’s life… and death… and successor. The Plague, the invention of the lavatory and, of course, the building and burning of the Globe Theatre.
The second in the exciting new Jelly Pie series of books for girls from Marianne Levy about a little film star with a big personality.
Dear Everybody,
I’m an incredibly famous film star! Everyone knows who I am, even Eskimos and people in France. And I’ve just made friends with an amazingly beautiful model. In fact, she’s going to be in my next film! Jeffrey’s worried I won’t like sharing the spotlight. But I’m sure it’ll be fine. After all, I always share my fudge cake. Well, almost always, anyway …
Love, Ellie May xxx
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Ellie May is the new comedy heroine on the block. With a ditzy brain but an enormous heart she finds herself in all manner of troubles, whether it’s hanging out with super-beautiful models or meeting Eskimos.
Ellie May is wonderfully brought to life by the cute but comedic illustrations by rising star Ali Pye.
‘This book made me laugh out loud. Ellie May rocks!’ Andy Stanton, author of Mr Gum.
‘Very, very funny. A sparkling showstopper’ The Independent.
Conduct 120 exciting science experiments with this award-winning activity book for kids.
The ultimate collection of eye-popping, jaw-dropping science experiments for kids by science supremo, Robert Winston. Designed for kids to carry out safely and easily from home, with more than 350 engaging photographs and illustrations to help you explore the world of science first-hand!
This kid's book offers a winning combination of the fascinating and the factual. Every experiment features step-by-step visual and text instructions and crystal-clear explanations of how the science works.
Go back to basics with easy examples, including blowing gigantic bubbles, making colourful crystals, and launching explosively fun bottle rockets. Then move on to trickier activities using light and electricity, such as fashioning a flashlight or creating a homemade radio that you could dial into signals with!
This book breathes fresh life into science for kids through spectacular first-hand experiences. Remember, practise makes perfect, so you can repeat the experiments to test your own results and keep learning.
Most of the demonstrations in this educational book call for every day, affordable materials that you likely already have around the house, others might require a trip to a chemist or hardware store.
Budding scientists, the fun starts here!
Test - Learn - Enjoy The Science!
Make enormous bubbles at home, launch a bottle rocket or make your own radio and tune into BBC!
Science gives us an understanding of where we come from, the animals and plants around us and affects every aspect of our lives. It starts with experiments, to explore the nature of things around us.
Find your inner mad scientist with some devilishly fun experiments like:
- Ice cloud
- Cabbage indicator
- Fizzy fountain
- Violent volcano
- And much, much more!
Winner of The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2012. Check out other excellent science titles in the DK collection next, like Science Squad, Ask A Scientist, Look I'm A Scientist and more.
For readers traumatised by triangles and anxious about angles, the next in the unchallenged Murderous Maths series, The Fiendish Angletron, unveils the tools to solve the most testing of trigonomogeometric tasks. Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to angles they don't teach at school
A novel of heart and courage inspired by the incredible story of a real-life princess.
Princess Haya, daughter of the King of Jordan, loves her family more than anything. So when tragedy strikes at its heart, she is devastated.
The Princess becomes ever more withdrawn until, on her birthday, the King gives her a life-changing present. An incredible new friendship grows and the heartbroken princess begins to dream of an extraordinary future.
Inspired by the real-life story of Olympic equestrienne Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein and set against the exotic backdrop of Arabia, this novel is destined to become a modern classic.
Packed with stories, games and activities, all starring Heartlake City's favourite Friends, Mia, Emma, Andrea, Stephanie and Olivia, this title includes colourful LEGO bricks for extra play fun.
