New Releases by Colin Maclean

From commercials for MatchBox cars to the King of the World and beyond, Leonardo DiCaprio began his acting career on the sound stage of the children's program Romper Room. Although unceremoniously kicked off the show for bad behavior at age five, he knew

America's Pretty Woman and Hollywood's highest-paid actress, Julia Roberts is a fascinating study in contradictions. She evokes sexiness and innocence all in single glance. She can be outgoing and funny one moment, shy and sad the next. Writer and long-t

In this volume, Colin MacLean picks up and develops the family story as told by his mother, Isabella G. MacLean, in the remarkable collection of her letters, Your Father and I. He looks back across a varied career in journalism and publishing, highlighting many of the distinctive features in school and university education, in conditions of health and hygiene, in language, and in the social and religious attitudes of his early years. His personal account traces the span of one family's contacts with two world wars and presents the moving and often painful story of the impact of his sister Isabel of her brief and unexpected war service at Bletchley Park, where the Ultra Secret was being unravelled.

'Highly recommended' -- Life and Work. An illuminating account of the experience of churchgoing with a particular focus on the Church of Scotland. Colin Maclean looks at the church service and its music, the sermon and the written word, ceremonies and occasions.

Children of all ages will love these appealing, funny stories and rhymes, for listening to at any time of the day.

Familiar nursery rhyme characters participate in this story about Mary's obedient lamb who one day wanders off and wreaks havoc at a fair.

Collection of playsongs, favourite nursery rhymes, dancing games, learning chants, poems and lullabies.

Twin mice, Albert and Albertine, decide to put on a charity Christmas show, but their audience is surprisingly unappreciative