Most Popular Books by Alison Ritchie

Grandad''s my hero, he''s funny and smart. I love my grandad with ALL of my heart. Little Bear''s grandad is brilliant! He can make dens, build campfires and he gives the best bear hugs. And no matter what, he''s always there for Little Bear . . .

The seaside comes to Greendale in this sandy adventure.

Itâe(tm)s that time of year again âe"- time for Gladstone Brieâe(tm)s crucial music festival! This year, thereâe(tm)s a special guest making an appearance with Da Easy Crew . . . none other than music legend Toots. But disaster strikes when Toots doesnâe(tm)t show up. Where can he be? And why is Ice Popp, a keen young rapper, so quick to take his place? With the clock ticking, thereâe(tm)s not much time to find Toots before the concert. Luckily Rastamouse is on the case! With flaps to lift on every page and a brilliant pop-up ending, children will love joining in the hunt for the truth as Rastamouse, Scratchy and Zoomer solve another puzzling mystery.

The seaside comes to Greendale in this sandy adventure.

Winter has arrived, and the whole of Greendale has been carpeted in thick snow. While out snowboarding, Julian and the other children decide to make a giant snowball. It gets bigger and bigger until suddenly it rolls out of control. Postman Pat rushes to the rescue.

Postman Pat is back with some great ideas for recycling week.

Pat is busy on his rounds one day when Alf Thompson''s goat, Rosie, breaks loose from her pen, finds some tasty labels to chew in Pats post bag, then runs amok all over Greendale. Pat and Alf give chase in Pat''s van but Rosie is always four steps ahead and, with nothing more than half-chewed labels to go on, Pat gets his deliveries in a bit of a muddle! Rosie causes quite a commontion before she''s put safely back in her pen and PC Selby, Reverend Timms and Ajay are reunited with their rightful parcels.

Postman Pat is proud to deliver this very special treasury of stories. Five first class adventures for you to enjoy, including ''Postman Pat Goes Football Crazy'', ''Postman Pat and a Job Well Done'' and ''Postman Pat and the Runaway Kite ∼ Greendale has gone football crazy with a five-a-side match, but with PC Selby as referee, will Pat be the man of the match? Julian discovers all the ins and outs of the important jobs in Greendale as he joins Postman Pat on his rounds. And curiousity catches the cat when Jess climbs onto one of the kites at the festival and is whisked off on a surprise adventure...

It''s Meera''s birthday - and while her mum has organised a disco, she hasn''t been able to find a magician to complete the celebrations. Well, that''s what Meera thinks. Little does she know that Postman Pat is secretly hard at work practising his magic tricks to get them ready in time for the party.

To raise money for the new school roof, everyone in Greendale is swapping jobs for one day! Alf finds himself giving a maths lesson at school, Ted Glen is put in charge of the station cafe, Nisha and Sara get into a bit of a pickle redecorating Dr Gilbertson''s living room and the Reverend Timms has to look after a flock of sheep! Thankfully, Pat - who''s delivering the post as normal - is there to help when unfamiliar tasks get the better of the good folk of Greendale!

Archie causes total chaos with his new bowling game, until Josie comes to the rescue and shows him how to play it properly - in a real bowling alley

Joey doesn''t see why he has to sleep on his own while mummy and daddy get to sleep together. Every night he''s given a different toy to keep him company, but eventually his bed is so full of toys all he wants is to have it all to himself again! 2-6 yrs.

Camping in One Two Trees Forest, the little orphans get a big fright. Is there a monster in the woods? The Easy Crew got to put things right!

Postman Pat and his black and white cat are back! The friendly, familiar postman is starring in a brand new, vibrant animation series that will take him on a succession of adventures to delight a pre-school audience. Our publishing programme of story books, illustrated with stunning animation stills, presents stories that parents and children will love to share.

When 2 very rare butterflies escape from Pencaster Zoo, the whole village gives chase to catch them. Julian and his friends from school, set off with their nets on a butterfly hunt, but the beautiful butterflies always seem to be one step ahead as they flutter from flower to flower and end up settled on Dorothy''s hat! Will someone be able to catch the butterflies before they fly away?

There''s a clown show at the Nursery today, but poor Giggles the Clown left all his gear on the ferry! Miss Hoolie manages to dig some make-up out of the Nursery cupboard, but it isn''t quite enough to get the show on the road. But with the help of Josie Jump, Archie and Pocket and Sweet''s custard pies the show can go on and everyone has a brilliant time!

Postman Pat and his black and white cat are back! The friendly, familiar postman is starring in a brand new, vibrant animation series that will take him on a succession of adventures to delight a pre-school audience. This book contains 4 of the best story books for all those Postman Pat fans who like a bumper read.

Postman Pat and his black and white cat are back! The friendly, familiar postman is starring in a brand new, vibrant animation series that will take him on a succession of adventures to delight a pre-school audience. Our publishing programme of story books, illustrated with stunning animation stills, presents stories that parents and children will love to share.

Für den kleinen Bären ist Papa der Mittelpunkt der Welt, er spielt mit ihm und zeigt ihm alles, was kleine Bären wissen müssen. Ab 3.

Madame l''Oie est partie en vacances et Monsieur du Canard est responsable de la mare. Mais Monsieur du Canard a l''air d''être un peu trop enthousiaste. "Pas d''éclaboussures ! Pas de pêche ! Pas de course !" cancane-t-il. Très vite, il installe des panneaux partout ! Plonger est interdit ! (sur ordre de Monsieur du Canard - Responsable de la mare). Mais bientôt, tous ses amis commencent à partir...Monsieur du Canard retiendra-t-il la leçon avant qu''il ne soit trop tard ?

Jack is an awesome mechanic whose workshop is unlike any other, when he drives through its magic doors he has thrilling adventures! Today Jack has to fix a digger, but when he takes it for a test drive he is transported into a land of dangerous dinosaurs. Will Jack be able to escape the terrible T-Rex in his dinosaur digger?

Billedbog. Lille bjørn og hans mor gør alt sammen, fx balancerer de med æbler, brøler ind i en hule, svømmer og kaster blade op i luften. Lille bjørn vil være som sin mor, når han bliver stor

This time Jack zooms off to outer space in a rocket racing car. He meets all kinds of aliens when he joins an intergalactic space race. There''s spiky, slimy, spotty ones, tall pointy ones and small blobby ones, but can he fix their cars? And who will win the race?

Dans cette nouvelle aventure, Max et Titus vont tenter de sauver un troupeau de bébés dinos des griffes d''un énorme T-Rex... Aux commandes du Tracto-Dino, rien n''est impossible !

[Truncated] Restoration ecology is a rapidly growing science of global significance, assisting the recovery of ecosystems degraded, damaged or destroyed from human intervention and action. Increasingly, the focus is shifting beyond just restoring plant community structure to reinstating ecosystem functionality. A key process for sustainable plant communities is reproductive functionality, requiring robust pollinator services typically involving pollinators. Despite this, few restoration projects to date have explicitly assessed the restoration of pollinators. Pollinators are rarely specified in restoration targets as they are mobile and little is known about how they respond to habitat restoration, influence mating systems and reproductive success. The assumption is that once plant communities are established, pollinators and pollinator services will passively establish. In this thesis, ecological studies of invertebrate and vertebrate richness, pollinator abundance and behaviour together with genetic analyses of pollen dispersal, mating and genetic structure using microsatellite DNA markers were conducted in several natural and restored Banksia (Proteaceae) woodland sites on the Swan Coastal Plain of Western Australia. Located within a global biodiversity hotspot, the Southwest Australian Floristic Region contains the highest proportion of vertebrate-pollinated plant species in the world with the largest number of nectar-feeding bird and mammal species. These Banksia woodlands have undergone severe habitat destruction with urban expansion and are situated on significant deposits for sand mining that have seen post-mining ecological restoration of variable standards. This provides a model system for testing and assessing the ecological genetic consequences of restoration in a fragmented landscape. The dominant species in these woodlands, Banksia attenuata and B. menziesii, depend solely on animal-mediated pollen flow to effectively reproduce, with nectarivorous birds (honeyeaters, Meliphagidae) and flying insects as key pollinators. By focussing on these species, this thesis assesses the restoration of reproductive functionality in restored plant communities by testing: (1) the effect of restoration on the diversity, abundance and behaviour of bird and insect pollinator communities, (2) the impact of pollinator behaviour on realised pollen dispersal, genetic landscape connectivity and reproductive output in B. menziesii, (3) the successful restoration and maintenance of genetic diversity and spatial genetic structure within restored and natural B. menziesii populations, and (4) the effects of high and low diversity restoration approaches for genetic integration, connectivity and mating systems of B. attenuata. Studies were conducted within an array of natural bushland sites of differing levels of degradation and two restored sites, one with high plant species diversity and richness, and structural vegetation complexity reflective of pre-disturbance levels (high complexity), the second with low plant species diversity and richness (many non-native to the site), and vegetation structure of much lower complexity than found within predisturbance Banksia woodlands (low complexity).