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Discover over a thousand jaw-dropping stats and crazy facts from the makers of the UK's best football magazine! Match! Incredible Stats and Facts is packed full of brilliant facts, stats, lists and records from fastest goals to top scorers and most red cards to tallest stars in the Premier League. Includes amazing player facts, bonkers football injuries, biggest transfer fees, fantastic footie legends, trophy trivia, stunning stadiums, incredible strange-but-true revelations, all the firsts, and the fastest, tallest, boldest facts about the Champions League, the Premier League, the FA Cup, the UEFA European Championship and the World Cup.For example, did you know . . .*Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Ledley King holds the record for the quickest Premier League goal. He scored ten seconds after kick-off in a match against Bradford in the 2000/01 season.*Brazilian legend, Pelé, scored ninety-two hat-tricks, four goals on thirty-one occasions, five goals six times, and once bagged eight goals in a game!*Sergio Batista (1986) and Gennaro Gattuso (2006) are apparently the only two players to have won the World Cup while sporting a full beard.Discover more footy fun in this awesome series, with MATCH! Joke Book, MATCH! Football Puzzles, MATCH! Build Your Own Club and MATCH! England Football Heroes.

Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this first mysterious adventure filled with friendship, freedom and a fierce wild cat! Kat Wolfe loves her new home in idyllic Bluebell Bay, especially as it comes with a resident wildcat. But when she starts pet-sitting for pocket money, she finds that beneath the town's perfect surface lie some dark and dangerous secrets.... After a pet owner vanishes from his clifftop mansion, Kat turns to her new friend, Harper Lamb, for help. What began as mystery-solving holiday fun quickly turns deadly for Wolfe and Lamb. Can they count on their unruly animals to save their lives? Kat Wolfe Investigates is the first in a compelling middle-grade mystery series from best-selling author Lauren St John.

It's Christmas time, and every tree on Sidney Street is beautifully decorated - except for one! This rebellious tree would rather sit at the table and pull crackers on Christmas day than stand in a corner wearing glittery decorations! Bauble, Belle and the Tinsel Snake need the tree to behave so they can fulfil their decorating destinies, but the argumentative tree just won't stand still and be decorated. Then, Belle has a crafty idea.... Oh, Christmas Tree! is another hilarious Christmas audiobook from the creative pair behind the best-selling Snowball, Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. This festively funny story is full of their usual warmth and wit, with brilliant characters and a bouncy rhyming text.

Created by award-winning, best-selling duo Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, Snowball is a brilliantly funny audiobook. This hilarious rhyming story is perfect for Christmas! A lonely young snowball, stuck at the top of a mountain, decides to visit the local town for a bit of fun - but on his way he trips, falls, and starts to roll...and when a snowball rolls through snow, we all know what happens! This snowball picks up not only snow but a myriad of other odd things on his way down - a sheep, a line of washing, a bicycling bear, ending up in the zoo.

Discover over four hundred of the funniest football jokes from the makers of Match! the UK's best football magazine – you'll laugh your football socks off!Match! Joke Book is a hilarious mix of football quips, puns, knock-knock jokes and shaggy-dog stories. The Sweetest StarsSergio Agu-AERO (Manchester City)Lee KIT-KAT-termole (Sunderland)MARS Bender (Bayer Leverkusen)ROLO Touré (Liverpool)John TERRY'S CHOCOLATE ORANGE (Chelsea)Can you think of any more?Discover more footy fun in this awesome series, with MATCH! Incredible Stats and Facts, MATCH! Football Puzzles, MATCH! Build Your Own Club and MATCH! England Football Heroes.

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Draw it! Colour it! Creatures, this second, stunning Macmillan activity book for all ages is your chance to join in and compete a drawing with a bestselling artist. Featuring work from Axel Scheffler, Chris Riddell, Rob Biddulph, Emily Gravett, Marta Altes and many many more.This brilliant bumper drawing and colouring book is perfect for aspiring artists and fans of children's illustrators. A book for children who love to draw, made by people who love to draw.

We are all stories, in the end . . .A stunning illustrated collection of fifteen dark and ancient fairy tales from the world of Doctor Who. These captivating stories include mysterious myths and legends about heroes and monsters of all kinds, from every corner of the universe. Originally told to young Time Lords at bedtime, these twisted tales are an enchanting read forDoctor Who fans of all ages.Written by Justin Richards and illustrated by David Wardle.

When is a footballer like a baby? When it dribbles. Who's in goal when the ghost team plays football? The ghoulie, of course! Why is a football crowd learning to sing like a person opening a tin of sardines? They both have trouble with the key. What's the best day for a footballer to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast? Fry-day. Why did the millionaire footballer have no bathroom in his house? He was filthy rich. Hundreds of the most hilarious soccer jokes around. Perfect for football fans to enjoy in between those all-important World Cup games, Premiere League matches, and European Cup finals.

Based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's original short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Nutcracker Colouring Book is a delightful addition to the Macmillan classic coloring range of books. The ballet based on the original story is now the most popular ballet in the world and is staged every year in the run up to Christmas. With beautiful and detailed black line illustrations, plus captions that tell the story, and with a festive cover decorated with red foiling, this is a perfect Christmas gift.