New Releases by Ian Whybrow

Little Wolf is a Goody Four-Paws. He brushes his teeth, says please and thank you and is always in bed on time. This simply will not do... Join him on the journey to Cunning College where he has been sent to learn the Nine Rules of Badness from the growliest greediest ghastliest Wolf of all: Uncle Bigbad! Mischief, comedy and songs create a most dastardly musical for anyone very bad (or wanting to be bad) aged five years and above. This adaptation of Ian Whybrow''s Little Wolf''s Book of Badness by Anthony Clark, with original music by Conor Linehan, was first performed in December 2007 at the Hampstead Theatre.

Ninety-five-year-old Miss Wire is the only one at the Hideaway Home nursing home who wants to celebrate Christmas, so she enlists the help of Santa Claus to prove to the other residents that Christmas is not just for children.

Contents. Research Papers: Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: A Change in Causal Mechanisms at about 2,000 ybp (Kendrick J Brown and Richard J Hebda); The Traditional, Historical and Prehistoric Use of Ashes as an Insecticide, with an Experimental Study on the Insecticidal Efficacy of Washed Ash (Tom Hakbijl); Sources of Meat in Colonial Diets: Faunal Evidence from Two Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Whaling Stations (Susan Lawrence and Catherine Tucker); Assessment and Further Development of the Recording and Interpretation of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia in Archaeological Pig Populations (Keith Dobney, Anton Ervynck and Beverly La Ferla); British Agriculture: Texts for the Zoo-Archaeologist (Simon J M Davis); Fish Otoliths and their Relevance to Archaeology: An Analysis of Medieval, Post-Medieval, and Recent Material of Plaice, Cod and Haddock from the North Sea (Wim Van Neer, Anton Ervynck, Loes J Bolle, Richard S Millner and Adriaan D Rijnsdorp); Derivation and Application of a Food Utility Index (GFUI) for European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa L.) (Peter Rowley-Conwy, Paul Halstead and Patricia Collins). Short Contributions: A Donkey (Equus asinus L.) Partial Skeleton from a Mid-Late Anglo-Saxon Alluvial Layer at Deans Yard Westminster, London SW1 (Ian L Baxter); Iron Age Cultigen? Experimental Return Rates for Fat Hen (Chenopodium album L.) (Paul Stokes and Peter Rowley-Conwy); Wetland Microfossils in Soil: Implications for the Study of Land Use on Archaeological Landscapes (Mark Horrocks, Martin D Jones, Scott L Nichol and Douglas G Sutton). Book Reviews: R Gale and D Cutler (2000), Plants in Archaeology. Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to c.1500; G Bailey, R Charles, and N Winder (eds) (2000), Human Ecodynamics; D Dincauze (2000), Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice.

Little Wolf and his brother Smellybreff play a naughty trick in their quest for dinner.

Little Wolf and his brother, Smellybreff, get a lesson in Badness from Mom and Dad Wolf.

When Santa sets off to deliver the presents poor Christmas Bear is left behind. How will Bear make it to Tom's house in time for Christmas morning? With plenty of novelties to play with, from flaps and tabs to wheels and mini pop-ups, little hands will love to follow Christmas Bear's adventures as he travels far and wide.

In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf tells of setting sail to find the lost treasure of his legendary ancestor, Blackfur the Pirate.

Bedtime isn''t bedtime without a bear, but who knows where the Bedtime Bear spends his day? Follow one small bear on his wacky way to bed, and prepare to be amazed!

In letters home to Mom and Dad, Little Wolf describes his new pack, the Beastshire SPOBBTALOF (Small Pack of Brute Beasts That Have a Load of Fun.)

Little Wolf, in a series of letters to his parents, tries his hand at writing poetry and produces some work that his friends admire and his parents find very useful.

Letters home to Mum and Dad start and end this collection of rhyming observations on life. All Little Wolf''s friends and family are featured, including his cousin and best-friend Yeller, his little brother Smellybreff, Stubbs Crow and Normus Bear.

Through a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf relates his adventures as a member of Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency, crime solvers of the Frettnin Forest, as they investigate a series of mysterious disappearances.

Bitesize, the little raccoon, has a painful splinter in his paw and hides under the bed, where his friends eventually find him.

In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf describes his attempts to create "the scariest school in the world" and convince his ghostly Uncle Bigbad to teach a magic class.

Lonely Miss Lollipop buys a truck which quickly fills with animals in this rhyming tale that introduces counting.

Edward finds his visits to Grandad Wilson's house a bit of a trial, especially when Great Aunt Spud is there. But this visit isn't so bad because Grandad takes Edward time-travelling back to 1919, to the day a photograph of Grandad with his friend was taken.

Holly wishes she had a skateboard, but her parents can't afford to buy her one. Her spoilt cousin Richard had a super-duper expensive skateboard and on Holly's seventh birthday he brings it round to show off. But Richard doesn't know about old Mr Windrush fom next door - he has a special surprise to give Holly's birthday a fantastical lift and Richard the comeuppance he deserves.