Best Selling Books by Frances Thomas

Will this really be Polly''s worst birthday ever?

Polly is ready to run away from home, since her best friend Kelly doesn''t want to be friends, her pet hamster, Horace, has disappeared, and her mother is pregnant, so the whole family is paying more attention to the coming baby than to her.

A new poetry collection covering memories, loss, family life, history and nature from author Frances Thomas. For more information and to find out about Frances'' other publications, visit her website at www.francesthomas.org

Imagine the isolation of a place where, within several miles of home, there were no people other than immediate family-no modern conveniences, telephones, television, internet, newspaper or mail delivery, supermarkets or shopping malls. Imagine a terrain sometimes more hospitable to mesquite trees, rattlesnakes, and jackrabbits than to human inhabitants. Imagine hot, dry weather that could change abruptly as a blue norther rolled in across the plains, dropping temperatures thirty or forty degrees before nightfall. Could you thrive in such an environment? The author did, and she reflects on these vicissitudes with both nostalgia and humor.

In her illustrated diary, Polly writes about her family, her plans to run away, her school friends and ex-friends, and her boring hamster Horace.

Little Monster is concerned about leaving his parents behind when he grows up to be an explorer in outer space.

Primary school children are now required to learn how to use the Internet and teachers increasingly need to acquire the same skills for professional purposes. These three no-nonsense resource books have been created specifically to steer primary school teachers through Internet technology and help them to deliver the new Internet strand of the ICT curriculum confidently. The series authors and consultants have drawn on their extensive expertise to create three books that provide all the help teachers will need to source information on the World Wide Web, use e-mail and write a school web page. Each book includes: a step-by-step illustrated guide to all the essential computer functions; lists of the best web sites to access and over 25 lesson ideas with photocopiable activity sheets for pupils to use. There are also tips on classroom management, answers to the most common teacher questions, glossaries and at-a-glance reference charts.

''Finding Information'' is a practical guide for those working with children, to help them to get on the Internet and search the World Wide Web for information. It''s a resource to help both adults and children build up confidence and skills with Information and Communication Technology across the National Curriculum. The book avoids technical jargon, includes step-by-step screen shots and contains 35 photocopiable projects. The book focuses on Microsoft Windows PCs running Internet Explorer software, but can also be used with Netscape Navigator software and Apple Macintosh or Research Machines'' computers. This second edition has been fully updated to be compatible with the new Windows XP operating system.

In Little Monster’s Book of Numbers, readers can count from ten red apples, to five baby birds learning to fly, all the way down to one adorable little monster! Simple images are perfect for preschoolers.

Little Monster is discovering opposites - from hot and cold to young and old, from good and bad to happy and sad. Join him as he explores his surroundings! A perfect board book for babies learning all about their world.

Electra is eagerly looking forward to her father Agamemnon''s triumphant return to Mycenae after the long war in Troy. But his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus have other plans - Clytemnestra cannot forgive her husband for the sacrifice of her eldest daughter Iphigenia at the start of the war, and Aegisthus covets the kingship. Instead of celebrating his return, they murder him horribly; and suddenly Mycenae isn''t a safe place for Electra or her brother Orestes. Orestes goes into exile, and Electra has to submit to a humiliating fate. When Orestes eventually returns, there is only one word on his mind - revenge! What part will Electra play in this?

How old were you the first time someone asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"A few lucky souls recognized their dream job early in life. Many of us, however, stumbled on a career by accident. It may have made us a living, but did it give us the life we wanted? We never got the career counseling we needed to make a better choice.If you are a teenager just starting to sort out what to do with your life, this workbook will give you step by step guidance through the process.If you are the parent, grandparent, or loving aunt or uncle of a teen, what better gift than to give the student in your life the tools to make this important decision?

Frances Thomas has written many books for children and adults. She now lives mostly in Wales with her historian husband. She has won the Welsh Books Council Tir na nOg prize on four occasions for her children''s books. Among her other publications is a biography of Christina Rossetti. She has two daughters and two grandchildren. Dancing In The Chequered Shade is a companion to her 2012 volume A Bracelet of Bright Hair. To read more, visit her website: www.francesthomas.org

Track your progress toward your goals in five important areas: mind, body, spirit, relationships, and finances. Let this be the year you look at resolutions in a new and better way.

Sensitive portrayal of the plight of dancing bears.

The first of two new volumes, this book contains material from authentic catalogs of the 1920s, which depict styles of authentic residential (ceiling, sconces, lamps), commercial, and outdoor lighting that illuminated America during the Depression era. Companies represented include Gill Glass and Fixture Company, Gillinder and Sons Inc., Meletio Electrical Supply Co., and Halcolite Company, Inc. The styles shown span the eras from the daring Art Deco to the classics. 8.5 x 11. 2001 values.

An ordinary year in an ordinary life, made extraordinary by poetry. Frances Thomas is the author of several books for adults and children. Her biography of Christina Rossetti was published in 1994 and has just been re-issued by Virago Press. She has won the Tir na nOg prize and a Scottish Arts Council award for her children''s books. She was born in Wales, but grew up in London. She now divides her time between London and mid-Wales. To read more about her, please visit her website: www.francesthomas.org

Townsville-based artist Tate Adams is renowned for his wood engravings, a form of printmaking he first practised while illustrating limited edition books for Ireland''s famous Dolmen Press. In Australia, he initiated something of a revolution in the art of printmaking through his teaching at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery with early exhibitions of prints by artists such as Fred Williams, John Brack, George Baldessin and many others. He also established, with George Baldessin, the Lyre Bird Press for the publication of limited edition artists'' books. During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving, in which he is an internationally acknowledged master, to the painting of large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing. This Mini-Book, No 15 in Macmillan Art Publishing''s series, provides an overview of Tate Adams''s art in both wood engraving and the recent abstract painting.