First skills with ladybird. abc

Knowing the sounds of the letters in the alphabet and matching those letter sounds to pictures are important pre-reading skills for young children.

Lair by James Herbert

The second of the Rat's trilogy and the weakest of the three, basically a rehash of the first, with the main character from the first novel trying to destroy a group of rats that escaped from London to the green belt. Still good though.

The Rats by James Herbert

It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures, with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood, began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years, humans and rats have been natural enemies. But now for the first time – suddenly, shockingly, horribly – the balance of power has shifted…..

 If Princess Diana had been murdered, what sort of man would have killed her? Maybe one who made accidents happen. Maybe one who didn't realize who he was murdering.. The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely capable assassin who only targets bad guys, is in a Paris tunnel ready to make a hit. He causes a speeding black Mercedes to smash into a stone pillar, leaving the car's principal passenger, a dangerous terrorist, he's been told, undoubtedly dead.

The Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field.