Most Popular Books by Ian Whybrow

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Help the Christmas Bear find his way from Santa''s workshop to Tom''s house in time for Christmas morning, in this fun sticker activity book, based on the bestselling festive favourite, The Christmas Bear by Ian Whybrow and Axel Scheffler. Packed with games, activities and over four hundred stickers, The Christmas Bear Sticker Book is perfect for cosy winter evenings, car journeys or as a stocking filler - a great gift for any child.

Mia, Träumer und Tüftler können es nicht fassen: Onkel Erwin hat sich verknallt, und nun zieht einfach eine fremde, flauschige Erdmännchen-Prinzessin in ihren Bau ein. Dabei vermissen sie doch immer noch ihre richtige Mama! Nach der werden sie jetzt suchen - und zwar allein. Aber die Wüste ist gefährlicher, als sie dachten: Sie treffen auf ein halb verhungertes Löwenjunges, wütende Blah-Blahs und gefährliche Brumm-Brumms. Wie gut, dass Erwin die drei heimlich im Auge behält ...

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

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.

Harry and his dinosaurs have an adventure down under in this raah-tastic new story. Harry and the dinosaurs are going on their first holiday ever-to Australia! But when they arrive the dinosaurs start to feel homesick. Luckily Nan''s given them a surprise present to open, and it''s a camera. Soon Harry and his dinosaurs are busy taking photos of all their adventures, and they even get to meet a duck-billed platypus. Harry and the dinosaurs all agree it''s been the best holiday ever.

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.