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Rob Eastaway

Mike Askew

Looking for a practical maths guide to help with home schooling? Maths for Mums and Dads is the solution. 
 
Maths for Mums and Dads guides you through the basics of primary school maths and covers the dilemmas and problems you are likely to be confronted with, including: 
 
 * number bonds, place value and decimals 
 * long multiplication and division 
 * fractions, percentages and decimals 
 * basic geometry, shapes, symmetry and angles 
 * data-handling, combinations and chance 
 
 Complete with sample questions, mock exam papers and examples of children's errors, Maths for Mums and Dads will challenge and reassure in equal measure.

Maths for Mums and Dads

Ella Frances Sanders

Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head? 
 
Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language to life with over fifty gorgeous watercolour and ink illustrations. 
 
Here you will find the perfect romantic expression, such as the Spanish tu eres mi media naranja, or 'you are the love of my life, my soulmate', and the bizarre, including dancing bears and broken pots, feeding donkeys sponge cake, a head full of crickets, and clouds and radishes. All encourage new ways of thinking about the world around us, and breathe magnificent life into the everyday. 
 
These phrases from across the world are ageless and endlessly enchanting, passed down through generations. Now they are yours.

Speaking in Tongues

Curious Expressions from Around the World

Elizabeth Foley

Beth Coates

Which literary giant also held the post of Controller of the Custom of Hides, Skins and Wools in the port of London? 
 
Which former concubine went on to become the first, and only, empress of China? 
 
Which French diplomat gave his name to the notoriously addictive nicotine? 
 
How old was George Harrison whent the Beatles split up? 
 
Test your wits, compete with your loved ones and check if it's all still there upstairs with these devilishly diverting questions on all the old-school subjects.

Homework for Grown-Ups Quiz Book

Fiendishly fun questions to test your old-school knowledge

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