If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child, The Beast in the Nursery offers an illuminating and possibly life-changing experience. In four interrelated essays, Adam Phillips arrives at startling new insights into issues that preoccupied Freud, showing in the process that far from having lost its relevance, psychoanalysis is still one of our most incisive tools for the exploration of the human psyche and its possibilities. Phillips transforms the genre of the essay into an instrument for intellectual investigation of the most absorbing kind.

One of The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2018! 'It's a great story for everyone, especially those not used to seeing themselves centre-stage'- The Guardian From the author of Bumblebear, comes a new heroine for our times. Introducing: Billy! Whilst on a lovely walk in the woods, Billy and her trusty sidekick Fatcat hear a terrible rumble... a terrible rumble coming from a Terrible Beast... He’s making a Terrible Soup out of all of Billy and Fatcat’s friends! Luckily, our brave heroine Billy has a trick or two up her sleeve (or in her hair)... Join Billy on her mission to defeat the Terrible Beast (and save those adorable little bunny rabbits too). 'A refreshing picture book star' - The Observer

The Beast is an animal You'd better lock the Gate Or when it's dark, It comes for you Then it will be too late Alys was the only one to see the soul eaters when they came to her village. The others were sleeping. They never woke up... Now, an orphan, Alys knows the full danger of the soul eaters. She's heard the nursery rhymes the chidren sing about the twin sisters who feed on souls. She's seen people disappear into the fforest and never come back. So why, then, does she find herself mysteriously drawn to the fforest? Is she what everyone around her says she is? A witch? Alys soon finds herself on a journey that will take her to the very heart of the fforest. There she must decide where true evil lies. And face the thing they call ... The Beast. A fairy tale with a difference: shivery, dark, and deeply satisfying. 'Read it if you loved The Handmaid's Tale' - Entertainment Weekly

Even more innovative than his last, Robert Sabuda will captivate all with his latest pop-up masterpiece, Beauty & the Beast! True love blooms in this three-dimensional adaptation of a beloved fairy tale. Amazing paper structures and classically styled artwork lead readers through a magical tale. Magnificent pop-ups of a life-like Beast, a mysterious castle and a spectacular rose garden make this all-new pop-up masterpiece a must-have for your family's library.

Matthew Reinhart's phenomenal paper engineering, as evidenced in Cinderella and The Jungle Book, brings an added dimension --literally-- to the classic telling of childhood's most treasured nursery rhymes. Featuring classic rhymes such as "Mary had a Little Lamb" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," readers can experience these timeless verses like never before. This special collector's edition comes complete with a specially designed, cloth-covered cover that also includes an additional pop. Each of the 250 copies in existence has been signed and numbered by Matthew Reinhart.

In 1962 a strike force of elite special agents for a clandestine group is sent to unearth and recover four powerful artifacts from a temple buried in the Middle Eastern desert. The artifacts are recovered, but only the three mission leaders survive, making off with two of the artifacts. In 1976, the surviving junior member of the desert mission is now an agent on a special assignment: he is to abduct, artificially inseminate, and release Angela Trelaine, the wife of billionaire industrialist Reginald Trelaine. His mission is a success. The next year, Angela dies in childbirth as she delivers twins, Jack and Sarah Trelaine. Her husband, Reginald, blames his wife's death on the infant Jack but vows to wait until the boy is older to take revenge. It is now 2004 and when a convenience store clerk is attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of gangbangers, the rape is cut short by a man wearing black leather and Kevlar that covers everything but the red goggles over his eyes. He tears the gangbangers apart with his bare hands before hurling a titanium hammer through the skull of the last attacker. This starts a chain of events that bathes the Indianapolis streets in blood.Now a grown Jack must strive to save those closest to him while struggling to uncover the Nature of the Beast. About the Author: First-time novelist Michael L. Romansky resides with his family in Indianapolis. He has three books in the works including the sequel. Publisher's website: http: //SBPRA.com/MichaelLRomansk

A collection of rhymes, verses, jingles, riddles, and limericks from traditional sources, together with a selection of favorite poems by English and American authors, chiefly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.