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|title=It's Time to Say Goodnight

|author=Harriet Ziefert and Barroux

|rating=3.5

|genre=For Sharing

|summary=When a little boy wakes up happy and decides to say 'Good morning' to everything he sees he probably doesn't realise the task he has set himself. Indeed, after saying 'Good morning' to twenty-plus things around him it seems it's now time to say 'Good night'!

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609053745</amazonuk>

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|title=How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race

|summary=If you've read any of Gervase Phinn's fictionalized autobiographies (the Dales series), or either of the previous two volumes in this Little Village School set, you'll know what to expect here: cosy English fun set mostly around a primary school, full of Yorkshire dialect, quirky characters prone to malapropisms and many 'kids say the darndest things' moments.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444706055</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins~~

~~|author=Gavin Francis~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Travel~~

|summary=I know two books don't make a genre, but twice in recent years I have read autobiographical travelogues of men who felt too much was going on in their lives and their surroundings, and took themselves off to remote, isolated, extremely cold and inhospitable places. One went to the shores of Lake Baikal, and shared his days hunting, fishing, drinking and reading with only a few very distant neighbours. Gavin Francis took himself south, to the edge of the Antarctic ice, to spend a year as a scientific doctor. He wasn't able to be completely as alone as some have been in the past – even if he hid himself away in isolation before the week-long annual changeover of staff was through. Francis ends up with a baker's dozen of companions, in a place where – apart from the ice, sealing things up – only two lockable doors exist. You might think this was a large group of people for someone wanting to be alone, but the very tenuous and isolated feel of the place in the huge emptiness of the landscape is the main point of this book – that, and communing with emperor penguins…

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009956596X</amazonuk>~~

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