At last a brand new Penny Pollard adventure! When Penny is given a school assignment about saints, she doesn t realise what she might be getting herself into Penny Pollard is one of Australia s most popular and enduring characters for children (and adults) everywhere. Written by award-winning and successful author, Robin Klein, and with amusing illustrations and photographs by Ann James, Penny Pollard s Scrapbook is guaranteed to join the ranks of the Penny Pollard classics, and delight a whole new generation of readers.

Penny Pollard hates: pink dresses, Simone, twitty lavender bags, Annette Smurton (who has her own horse) and Jason Taylor. But she likes: horses, Mrs B (who is her 81-year-old best friend), collecting things (including horse shoes and swap cards), visiting cemeteries, and writing!You can read all about Penny s hilarious adventures in the six books that make up this award-winning, best-selling, ever-popular series. From travels around the UK to a project on good manners, trying to avoid being a bridesmaid to finding ways to save her family home, Penny does it all!The Penny Pollard series of books has been read and loved by thousands of children around the world since Penny Pollard s Diary was first published in 1983. Now Hodder Headline Australia is re-releasing the complete series with a new range of up-to-the-minute, fun and appealing jackets. A whole new generation of readers will be introduced to this funny, feisty girl who knows her own mind at all times and isn t afraid of anything.

At last a brand new Penny Pollard adventure! When Penny is given a school assignment about saints, she doesn t realise what she might be getting herself into Penny Pollard is one of Australia s most popular and enduring characters for children (and adults) everywhere. Written by award-winning and successful author, Robin Klein, and with amusing illustrations and photographs by Ann James, Penny Pollard s Scrapbook is guaranteed to join the ranks of the Penny Pollard classics, and delight a whole new generation of readers.

In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.

A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORY The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS