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Playtime Makes Me Happy!

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A bold, playful and joy-filled board book series, bursting with bright and cheerful illustrations from bestselling artist and designer Eleanor Bowmer. With a mirror surprise at the end, these adorable books are sure to bring a smile to the littlest of faces!

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ISBN: 9781037204715 Category: Children's - Non-Fiction Tags: Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Self-awareness & self-esteem, Children's / Teenage: Personal & social issues, Children's, Teenage & educational
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Playtime makes me happy! Dressing up, playing games and racing cars. But do you know what really makes me happy? You!

PLAYTIME MAKES ME HAPPY! is a bold, colourful and joy-filled book – perfect for first readers, new parents or anyone wanting to spread happiness with a special gift.

Bursting with bright, cheerful illustrations and adorable rhyming text, this irresistible book celebrates happiness on every page. With sturdy, toddler-friendly pages and a clever mirror, little ones can spot themselves – helping to build self-awareness and social curiosity as they share a happy moment with the person who makes them smile the most!

Created by Eleanor Bowmer, whose mission is to spread inspiration, creativity and joy across the world, her baby books are perfect for little hands and BIG smiles.

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Weight 0.48 kg
Dimensions 21.2 × 21.4 × 1.8 cm
Author

Bowmer, Eleanor

Publisher

Bloomsbury Children's Books

Imprint

Bloomsbury Children's Books

Cover

Other

Pages

12

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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House of Books & Friends is overjoyed to welcome author Marta Perez-Carbonell to discuss her book, ‘I Made You Up Inside My Head’. The event will take place on Wednesday 11th November and will involve a discussion, a Q&A, and a chance for you to get your book signed by Marta. Marta will be in conversation with lecturer Luis Castellví Laukamp.

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On a sleeper train from London and Edinburgh, a woman and two strangers pass the time by telling stories about their lives.

One man reveals the true story behind the novel he wrote: the young man, Hans, who trusted him with intimate details about his life, and whose confidence he betrayed when he converted Hans’s life into fiction for his own gain.

As her cabin-mates reveal that Hans has since disappeared, with foul-play suspected, Alicia becomes gripped by the question of what really happened between the two men. She begins to re-examine her own memories, to try and discern what brought her to this point – and her involvement in the story told that night soon goes beyond a mere observer.

✏️About the author
Marta Pérez-Carbonell was born and raised in Spain and now teaches contemporary Spanish literature at Colgate University in upstate New York; she has also worked as a translator and interpreter. I Made You Up Inside My Head is her first novel.

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Ebby Freeman’s life has always been marked with tragedy. First, the death of her brother Baz, killed in an anonymous armed robbery when they were teenagers. Then her perfect fiancé Henry deserting her on the day of their wedding, without an explanation. When Ebby arrives in a sleepy French village, she believes she’s found an opportunity for healing and anonymity. Until Henry appears, staying at the neighbouring property with his beautiful new girlfriend in tow.It’s the worst situation that Ebby can imagine. But might it give her a chance to piece together the fragments of her past and finally embrace her future?

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