Best Selling Books by Valerie Thomas

Welcome to the wonderful world of Winnie the Witch and her long-suffering cat, Wilbur. When Winnie waves her magic wand, all kinds of amazing things happen. This giftbook contains all three Winnie stories. Originally published: 2001.

Winnie and Wilbur love to take to the skies in these three picture book adventures! Their vehicle of choice is their trusty broomstick but, with a bit of magic, carpets can take off, and so can giant pumpkins! There are three wonderful stories to enjoy in this book. The spellbinding new look of this bestselling series celebrates the wonderful relationship shared by Winnie and her cat, Wilbur. Since 1987 they have been delighting children and adults all over the world and more than 7 million books have been sold. Winnie and Wilbur will be hitting TV screens worldwide in 2017, airing in the UK on Milkshake, Channel 5''s popular pre-school slot. A Winnie and Wilbur stage show is set to run in Birmingham in 2017 followed by a national UK tour. A new look for the website, too! a href="https://www.winnieandwilbur.com/"click here/a

This fantastic volume includes six of Winnie and Wilbur''s crazy capers. Meet them in their black house, take a hazardous ride on Winnie''s broomstick, join them on a hot and sunny winter''s day, find out what happens when Winnie''s wand stops working, discover how much chaos a computer can cause and spend a day with them at the seaside! This collection is a must-have purchase for Winnie fans everywhere and, for those who have yet to meet everyone''s favourite witch, it is a book that is guaranteed to make readers the best of friends with Winnie and her big black cat, Wilbur!

Three techno-tastic Winnie and Wilbur adventures in one! Winnie and Wilbur love technology! Whether it''s ordering a new computer, getting behind the controls of a rocket, or trying to outwit a robot, they are always ready to mix magic with gadgetry for some awesome adventures. With three stories to enjoy, this is an amazing picture book collection. The spellbinding new look of this bestselling series celebrates the wonderful relationship shared by Winnie and her cat, Wilbur. Since 1987 they have been delighting children and adults all over the world and more than 7 million books have been sold. Winnie and Wilbur will be hitting TV screens worldwide in 2017, airing in the UK on Milkshake, Channel 5''s popular pre-school slot. A Winnie and Wilbur stage show is set to run in Birmingham in 2017 followed by a national UK tour. A new look for the website, too! www.winnieandwilbur.com

A study investigated the way in which children make use of morphemic information when they are learning to spell. Specifically, it examined the use of morphemic information in spelling compound words; the use made of morphemic information when adding suffixes to words, and the way the morphological rule governing the formation of the past tense is acquired. Subjects, 360 7-to-9-year-old children from 30 schools in Melbourne, Australia, were administered spelling tests over a 3-day period. Results showed that many of the children did not appear to be aware of the significance of the morphemic structure of the words they were asked to spell, and knowing how to spell a morpheme in one context did not ensure that it would be spelled correctly in another. The children''s spelling of the irregular past tense morpheme indicated that they were attempting to apply a rule, but for many the rule was difficult to acquire. The bilingual children in the sample, as a group, were less competent than the monolingual children at making use of morphemic information, but the difference was not great, and the error patterns of the two groups were similar. (Author/FL)

Bella Bloksberg er en heks som bor i et svart hus i skogen. Hun har en svart katt som heter Bottolf som følger henne over alt. Bella har fått seg en datamaskin og hun er henrykt over alt hun kan få maskinen til å gjøre. Nå kan hun legge alle trylleformlene inn i datamaskinen, så slipper hun å rope ABRAKADABRA igjen. Men Bottolf er ikke like begeistret for den nye innretningen som tar all oppmerksomheten til Bella, dessuten er det noen rart med musa Bella klikker på når hun bruker datamaskinen. Har detaljrike fargeillustrasjoner. Nynorsk tekst. Billedbok for førskolebarn/småskoletrinnet.

Winner of the British Children''s Book Award, WINNIE''S AMAZING PUMPKIN (Winnie the Witch Series) by Valerie Thomas, illustrated by Korky Paul, Korean edition translated by No Eun Jeong. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Cette année, l''anniversaire de Winnie tombe un vendredi 13 et la sorcière invite tous ses amis à célébrer l''événement lors d''une gigantesque fête extérieure. Parmi les présents reçus, elle découvre les pouvoirs insoupçonnés d''une trompette magique. Après avoir fait réapparaître tout le monde pour consommer son immense gâteau, elle monte sur son tapis volant afin de souffler ses bougies. [SDM].

We investigate the effect of biofuels on land use change through a case study of U.S. corn production. Currently, agricultural models are used to estimate the effect of biofuel production on crop production and, correspondingly, land use change. As biofuel production grows, the models can potentially be validated with statistical analysis of changes in crop production. Determination of the influence of biofuel production on other uses of the biofuel feedstock - such as for food or animal feed - cannot be evaluated with standard statistical methods because the uses of an agricultural crop are constrained: total crop use is always the sum of the constituents. We develop a general method for these compositional distributions, and apply this method to determine competition between biofuel feedstock production and other uses of the same feedstock. We find evidence of competition among corn yield constituents, particularly with respect to ethanol production.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of reduced hours on public library services in Cape Town through taking the Eersterivier Library, as a case study. The research problem comes from the author''s personal experience as a librarian in the City of Cape Town whose library''s usage seems to have increased since the reductions in hours in two neighbouring libraries, Melton Rose and Kuils River. The reductions in their hours are due to libraries losing staff and not being replaced.

We investigate the causes behind the underwhelming adoption of voluntary Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs in the residential electricity market. TOU tariffs are deployed by utilities to better match electricity generation capacity with market demand by giving consumers price incentives to reduce their consumption when electricity demand is at its peak. However, consumers in residential electricity markets are heterogeneous in their consumption preferences. Hence, utilities face a trade-off when deploying voluntary TOU tariffs -- to provide aggressive price incentives that will only appeal to consumers with flatter profiles or milder incentives to appeal to a larger proportion of the market. Using a game-theoretic model, we identify the key factors that determine the viability of voluntary TOU tariff deployment. On the supply side, the gap between wholesale prices in the peak and off-peak periods determines how much the utility stands to benefit by inducing demand response. On the demand side, heterogeneity within target consumer sets determines how much demand response the utility can induce with a certain price incentive. We show that misaligned incentives between utilities and regulators lead to underwhelming TOU tariff adoption compared to the socially desirable level, and that this under-adoption is worse when consumption preferences are uniformly distributed. We also evaluate the degree of cross-subsidization across tariff structures to identify their implications for equity among the different consumer types, and find that low levels of voluntary TOU adoption are less equitable than the default tariffs.