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When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life.

Mr Jelly is frightened of absolutely everything! Even the slightest thing will send him hiding under the covers!

Floss’s parents are divorced, and she divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her new stepdad and her baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss’s mum decides to move to Australia. 

The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practise at home the skills they will need at school. The Alphabet provides colourful and entertaining pre-reading exercises based on the letters of the alphabet. The alphabet has been treated phonetically so that the name of the object begins with the sound of the letter. All exercises can be repeated on extra paper and in practical ways.

The return of Sherlock holmes