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What to read after... The Jolly Christmas Postman
Published on: 11 December 2024 Our pick of the best fun festive stories to share once you've read The Jolly Christmas Postman. The Jolly Christmas Postman by Allan and Janet Ahlberg The Jolly Postman series, with their pull-out letters, interactive elements and recognisable characters, was a massive hit when it was published in 1991, and it is still popular today.
Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl: The Junior Novel
Paperback Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books Wallace & Gromit are back in the junior novel of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Featuring incredible artwork taken from the animation, this adventurous and hilarious story is perfect for Wallace & Gromit fans of all ages! It's been many years since the events of The Wrong Trousers, when Wallace and Gromit helped put Feathers McGraw safely behind bars. Now life is back to normal at West Wallaby Street . . .
Why do China books all look the same? – SupChina
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s The Avoidable War. Noted China scholar David Shambaugh’s China’s Future. Business journalist (and SupChina contributor) Dexter Roberts’s The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.
Why do China books all look the same? – The China Project
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s The Avoidable War. Noted China scholar David Shambaugh’s China’s Future. Business journalist (and SupChina contributor) Dexter Roberts’s The Myth of Chinese Capitalism.
Album 'Songs of the Naxi' celebrates China's southwestern folk music – SupChina
A new album, Songs of the Naxi of Southwest China, is bringing a collection of traditional folk songs from one of China’s smaller ethnic groups to a global audience for the first time. Performed by acclaimed artist Hé Jīnhuā 和金花, who belongs to the Naxi, one of China’s 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities, the 20-track record provides not only a compelling listening experience but a rich glimpse into the daily life of this small yet diverse minority group.
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books Lift the flaps and join in the fun with Rod Campbell's classic, Dear Zoo, with a host of favourite zoo animals and flaps to lift on every page. 'I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet . . .' Young children will love lifting the flaps to discover the animals the zoo has sent – a monkey, a lion and even an elephant! But will they ever manage to send the perfect pet?
China’s poorly planned cities: Urban sprawl and the rural underclass left behind
By Alex Smith | March 11, 2020 China’s cities have massively increased in size in recent decades, improving the living standards of hundreds of millions of new urbanites. But counterintuitively, most of these cities are not dense enough. China has a problem with urban sprawl, and its system of “apartheid without the racism” hinders rural citizens from achieving the Chinese Dream. China’s unsustainable approach to urbanization is leaving millions of the country’s “floating population” in limbo.
DIY Gemstone Studded Skull
Ready to bling your A game this Halloween? With this simple DIY upgrade, you can take a cheap plastic skull and turn it into a spooky, sparkly showstopper. This faux gemstone studded skull was inspired by artist Damien Hirst's infamous 100-million-dollar-diamond-encrusted-real-human-skull (eek!) masterpiece. Except that ours is super affordable, easy to make, and only looks like a million bucks. Are you in? We thought so.
Ed Miliband announces his intention to stand for leadership — full speech
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As LabourList revealed last night, Ed Miliband is a candidate in the contest to become the next leader of the Labour Party. Today, speaking to the Fabian Society post-election conference in London, Miliband set out his stall. Speaking about the Labour government, Miliband said: “I am proud to have been part of that government and we should all be proud of what we achieved. But there is deep thinking we need to do about what went wrong.
Donate to Labour and get The Blair Years free, with a personalised message from Alastair
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I went to see Alastair Campbell yesterday, to make a donation to Labour’s campaign efforts and to get my personally signed copy of The Blair Years. Alastair is writing individual notes in the inside cover to people who buy a trade copy of book for £15, of which £7.50 goes directly into the Party’s election campaign.
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