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Read It Yourself with Ladybird Level 1 Book 2: Early Reader Omnibus: 3-in-1 Story Collection (Cindrella, Little Red Hen and Goldilocks and the Three Bears) Ages 5-7 Years Old

*EARLY READERS*

Will Cindrella go to the ball?
Do Little Red Hen’s freinds help her with her baking?
Whose porridge is Goldilocks eating?

Read It Yourself with Ladybird Omnibus Level 1 Book 2 is a collection of 3 stories in one book for ages 5-7 years old.
It is perfect for children who can use their existing phonics knowledge to practise reading simple words and short sentences with help.

Level 1 Read It Yourself with Ladybird Omnibus is suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words which gradually enables a child to become a proficient reader. With stories from classics accompanied by colourful illustrations, this boxset gently supports child through the first steps to words reading.

Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.

This Omnibus Collection includes below titles:

Cindrella
Cinderella wants to go to the prince’s ball, but she has no dress or shoes. Can a fairy godmother make all her dreams come true?

Little Red Hen
Little Red Hen needs help around the farm and asks her fellow farm friends to lend a hand. Will her friends learn the importance of helping someone in need?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks is walking through the woods when she discovers a house belonging to three bears. With curiosity getting the better of her, what will happen when the bears return home?

Read It Yourself with Ladybird Level 1 Book 1: Early Reader Omnibus: 3-in-1 Story Collection (The Three Fish, The Fox and the Crow and The Lion and the Rabbit) Ages 5-7 Years Old

*EARLY READERS *

Can a clever rabbit think of a plan to stop the lion eating the animals?
Is Fox able to trick Crow into giving up her delicious snack?
Will all three fish escape from the fishers?

Read It Yourself with Ladybird Omnibus Level 1 Book 1 is a collection of 3 stories in one book for ages 5-7 years old.
It is perfect for children who can use their existing phonics knowledge to practise reading simple words and short sentences with help.

Level 1 Read It Yourself with Ladybird Omnibus is suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words which gradually enables a child to become a proficient reader. With stories from classics accompanied by colourful illustrations, this boxset gently supports child through the first steps to words reading.

Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.

This Omnibus Collection includes below titles:

The Three Fish
Based on a popular Panchatantra story from India. Fishers have come along to the pond where three big fish live. When faced with danger, the fish make a plan to escape. Will all three of the fish get away in time?

The Fox and the Crow
Based on the well-loved Aesop tale. A hungry fox is on the hunt for some food. When he spots Crow in her tree, he hatches a plan to get her cheese! What will Fox have to do to get Crow’s delicious snack?

The Lion and the Rabbit
Based on a popular Panchatantra story from India. The big lion in the forest is very hungry! He wants to eat the other animals for his lunch. The clever little rabbit doesn’t want to be eaten. Can the rabbit find a way to stop the lion for good?

Emily Henry: 4 Books Boxset (Happy Place, People We Meet On Vacation, Book Lovers, Beach Read)

Since she burst onto the scene is 2020, Emily Henry has been seducing readers with her sizzling, chemistry-filled love stories.

Enjoy this collection of 4 books by the New York Times bestselling romance sensation and lose yourself in stories of love and friendship and deep human connections.

Beach Read
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

People We Meet On Vacation
Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common – but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Book Lovers
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…
Nora Stephens is a cutthroat literary agent and Charlie Lastra is a brooding editor. As they are thrown together again and again what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Happy Place
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college. But they broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
For the last of their friend group’s annual trip, they decide to just fake it.
After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?

How to Live: The Mindfulness Essentials Series 10 Books Boxset (How to Focus, How to Love, How to Fight, How to Relax, How to Connect, How to Sit, and more)

A back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces readers to the essentials of mindfulness practice.

How to Focus
Let go of misperceptions and cultivate the clarity of mind that is the basis for understanding ourselves, each other, and the world.

How to Love
Distil one of our strongest emotions down to four essentials and the key ways of showing our love.

How to Fight
Shows us how to handle strong emotions and our distorted perceptions can make us feel angry or filled with despair.

How to Relax
This book guides us in achieving deep relaxation, controlling stress, and renewing mental clarity.

How to Connect
Guide to unlocking the connection to our inner self, forging deeper and more meaningful bonds with those around us.

How to Sit
Provides explicit, simple directions on the mechanics of posture and breathing, along with instructions for how best to achieve an awakened, relaxed state of clarity.

How to Walk
Focussing on mindful walking, Nhat Hanh explains how this technique can diminish depression, recapture wonder and help us to express sincere gratitude.

How to Eat
How to Eat explains what it means to eat as a meditative practice and that the results of mindful eating are both global and personal.

How to See
How to See is about our misperceptions, how we can gain insight and how mindfulness practices can help us see our real selves.

How to Smile
How to Smile acts as a guide to show us how to transform hurt into healing, while also allowing us to explore the strong emotions of anger, sadness, regret and fear.

The Penguin Great Ideas Collection: 12 Book Boxset (The Myth of Sisyphus, On Shortness of Life, Meditations, An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’ and More)

* 12 groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers *

Each elegant volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker’s art.

The Myth of Sisyphus
The book that transformed philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.

On the Shortness of Life
Powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason.

Meditations
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behaviour.

Man Alone with Himself
Subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual’s ‘will to power’.

An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’
Kant investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened.

Fear and Trembling
Kierkegaard argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal “leap of faith.”

The Sickness Unto Death
This book explores the concept of ‘despair’ as a symptom of the human condition and describes man’s struggle to fill the spiritual void.

Of Human Freedom
A personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life.

How to be a Stoic
Three great Stoic philosophers – Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius – offer ancient wisdom on how to face life’s adversities and live well in the world.

Being Happy
Epicurus argues that pleasure – not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear – is the highest goal of life.

What is Existentialism
Explores the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.

The Symposium
A deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love.

World’s Best Ex-Girlfriend

When love will not let you find a way out

The last time Daksh met Aanchal, it was at a wedding in Dubai. A brief spark and then both of them move on. It’s not necessary to be together even if you love each other to the moon and back, right? Wrong.

Not being with the one you love means that there is always this heart-shaped hole in your lives, a pain that you can’t understand, a longing that refuses to go away.

What happens when the Band-Aid on this relationship is ripped off, and they are pushed together to finally see what life for them would be like? What happens when they put aside their ambitions and emotions to finally look at filling the hole?

World’s Best Ex-Girlfriend is a romance that will take the reader through the wringer of love.

The Shadow of A Bird in Flight

The Shadow of a Bird in Flight is an invitation to engage with the rich tradition of Urdu and Persian poetry as envisioned and curated by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. It features one hundred and sixty-seven poems by sixty poets, representing the essence of eight centuries of Indo-Persian poetic tradition. The collection invites readers to discover these works organically—each poem standing on its own, yet resonating with the others in unexpected ways.
This edition is enriched by new prefaces by Mehr and Baran Farooqi, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s daughters, alongside his original introductory essay which situates the collection within the broader landscape of Persian poetry and his own sensibilities. With pieces spanning all five main genres of Persian verse, this anthology serves as both an introduction for newcomers and a fresh lens for seasoned readers.
The Shadow Of a Bird in Flight celebrates the enduring influence of Indian contributions to Persian literature, offering a fresh and accessible entry point into this layered tradition, as well as the man who brought modernism to it.

Blackened

The Adhikarathil family had a distinguished history. It prospered both in terms of wealth and eminence, acquiring the status of royalty in Malabar, Kerala, until the birth of a child named Eranimos shocked everyone. Unlike his fair-skinned, Christian forebears, Eranimos was born dark-skinned, leading to controversial conjectures about his lineage.

Blackened tells the story of its protagonist’s quest to discover the truth behind his dark skin and caste identity. But weaved into this personal tale are multiple layers of Kerala’s social and political histories—its caste conflicts, its massive waves of conversion and migration, its clashing belief systems, and its rural and urban divide.

Originally published as Karikkottakkary in Malayalam, Blackened is an impactful bildungsroman that covers the arc of a conflicted life, and shows us how family histories are tied into the larger historical currents that form communities and shape destinies.

Alwan-E-Nemat

That the Mughals were fond of the good life is well known, especially their penchant for exquisite food and divine drinks. But what was the food in the imperial kitchen actually like? This book offers some answers.
Alwan-e-Nemat (Colours of the Table), the sixteenth-century Persian manuscript offers a rare taste and glimpse into Mughal Emperor Jehangir and queen Nur Jehan’s kitchen. Meticulously calligraphed on 155 pages of cream-coloured paper with a painted blue margin, it is possibly the first book in the world to be devoted entirely to recipes and methods of processing and serving food. It is also the only manuscript that highlights the unique contribution of Empress Nur Jehan.

Originally in Persian, this manuscript has been translated into English for the first time opening the doors to a treasure trove of unique recipes and culinary techniques that were authentically Mughal. From the Naan-e-Khamaaj Khasa, bread made in traditional style to the Qalya Naranj, deep fried tangerines in spicy lamb curry to the Gulgula Khasa, Deep fried dumplings floated in sugar syrup, this book has nearly 120 original mughal recipes along with detailed cooking techniques and helpful hints making it a rare collectible.

Gully Gully

For all but the final day of six electric weeks during the winter of 2023, India’s campaign at a home World Cup blazed and sparkled, warming the soul of a cricket-crazed nation. As Rohit Sharma’s dominant side took their show on the road, from one delirious city to another hysterical town, stretching from the sunburnt coast of Chennai to the frozen mountains of Dharamshala, the greatest cricket team to not win a World Cup edition unified a vast and diverse country in their shade of blue.
Gully Gully reveals not only what cricket means to India, but also what Indians mean to cricket by capturing the best and the worst of us, along with the grit and the grime of the land. This book is as much about a fabulous team brimming with legends as it is about the game’s other, oft-forgotten heroes: nameless and faceless Indian fans, emerging from numerous gullies.

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