New Releases by Jane Chapman

Mitchie wonders whether she will lose Shane amidst all the adulation and celebration of the Connect Three record going platinum.

Terrified of the wild storm outside, Baby Bear, Little Bear, and Young Bear crawl one by one into bed with their parents. Bestselling illustrator Chapman vibrantly captures the joy of snuggling into a warm bed as well as the strange shadows that can appear in the middle of the night. Full color.

This picture book features over 28 best-loved nursery rhymes, including ''Humpty Dumpty'', ''Jack and Jill'', and ''Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star''.

Christmas is coming and everyone is so excited - except for Grumpy Badger. Piffle he shouts. I am going to sleep until spring, and if anyone wakes me up I shall be VERY grumpy. But then Grumpy Badger has three visitors... and there is a great crisis. Will he learn the error of his ways before it''s too late?

Little Mouse, who is much too busy to help Big Mouse with the gardening, is dreaming up a surprise that involves daisies, lots of clover, and three feathers.

This picture book contains three best-loved nursery tales - ''The Three Little Pigs'', ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears'', and ''The Little Red Hen'' - all brightly illustrated and suitable for reading aloud.

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Two magical adventures packed with pixie power!

Providing an approach to practical documentary making, this work shows the challenges and issues faced by documentary makers and brings the author''s personal experience as both documentary producer and teacher to advise on how students can gain insight from these projects.

Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time. The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today''s media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved. The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history. For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

When Little Mouse ventures out on Christmas Eve in search of holly with big red berries he gets a fright, but Big Mouse is able to explain everything. Suggested level: junior.

These ingenious novelty board books combine illustrations with die-cut, tiered pages to create a cumulative story. Let''s Go is about a motorbike trying to pass many other vehicles in a traffic jam. The vehicles range from a dustcart and a fire engine to a tractor and a bus and each new page features a larger and longer vehicle, right up to a car transporter on the last spread. Children will have great fun spotting the motorcyclist and his attempts to overtake Let''s Build follows a similar theme, with every page revealing bigger building machines as the house being built grows in size. Fun and tactile, these gloriously coloured books are sure to become firm favourites

Small children mesmerized by vehicles and big machines will find more than their fill in this bright, bustling board book with lengthening pages. LET''S BUILD! It takes a lot of building trucks to put up a house! A forklift carries bricks, a steamroller squashes the ground, a bulldozer pushes and scoops, a cement mixer churns, a digger makes holes, a flatbed trailer carries materials, and a crane lifts them up and down. Now here’s a huge excavator to start building another house!

Little Bear longs to be as big and as fast as his mother. In the cold Arctic snow, Mother Bear shows the little polar bear cub what it''s like to be grown up. At the end of the day Little Bear decides he isn''t quite ready to be a big bear yet

We''ve had a great time, playing all day Now, let''s find our mummies Where are they?'' Match the mothers and babies on the farm - can you help Pig find his mother? Cut in the shape of a lovely, big pink pig, this is one in a series of four big books about farm animals. With soft, warm illustrations and easy rhyming text, familiar fannyard animals are brought to life for very young children.

Dora the hen is proud of her batch of eggs and longs to show them off to her friends. But Penny Pig is playing with her piglets and Clarissa Cow is snuggling her newborn calf. As Dora watches all the animals with their young, she can''t help but think their babies are much nicer than per plain brown eggs. So, off she goes back to her hen house feeling very sad, unaware of the surprises that are about to take place! Readers can touch and feel the texture of Dora''s eggs through embossing on the cover and throughout the book!