Laura James

Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!
Captain Pug is the first book in a glorious new illustrated series about roly-poly Pug and his human, Lady Miranda. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and is perfect for fans of Claude and Squishy McFluff.

A great book...

"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...

With celebrity contributions from cool campers Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall, Jodie Kidd, Alex James, Mitch Tonks, Emily Eavis, Kim Wilde, Kevin McCloud, Tom Norrington Davies, Rafaella Barker, and Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones. Before you have nightmares about being trapped in a field with a bus-load of boy scouts, swatting your way through a cloud of midges with your Ordnance Survey map the wrong way 'round, rest assured that camping is officially cool again....

"Gizmo the city dog moves to the village of Puddle with his journalist human and helps his new neighbor Jilly find homes for her puppies by starting a newspaper"--Title verso page.

Pug and his faithful companion, Lady Miranda, are pretending to be cowboys for the day, and soon get into mischief.

Deciding that Pug needs to face his fears, Lady Miranda takes him to a safari park where he goes nose-to-nose with Florence, a rare white lion cub, but he soon realizes that lions may not be the most dangerous thing in the wildlife park.

"Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James. With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more...

After struggling with the death of his childhood friend and the loss of his mother, Griff Hendry is trying to stay strong. That's why he's dedicated himself to saving lives, joining the coastal rescue team along the breathtaking shores of Dorset. Yet the one man who needs rescue most-Griff's own father, Logan-in the one man Griff can't forgive. Their tragic past has not only caused an irreparable rift between them-it's also driven away Griff's wife....

"Bob, the stationmaster's dog at Puddle Train Station and travel correspondent for the Daily Bark, gets the scoop of a lifetime when he unearths a Dinosaur Skeleton"--WorldCat.

In this picture book, a young black girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage hair.