New Releases by Colin Maclean

Box set containing Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, and Russell Crowe.-- (3/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)

In this volume, Colin MacLean picks up and develops the family story as told by his mother, Isabella G. MacLean, in the remarkable collection of her letters, Your Father and I. He looks back across a varied career in journalism and publishing, highlighting many of the distinctive features in school and university education, in conditions of health and hygiene, in language, and in the social and religious attitudes of his early years. His personal account traces the span of one family''s contacts with two world wars and presents the moving and often painful story of the impact of his sister Isabel of her brief and unexpected war service at Bletchley Park, where the Ultra Secret was being unravelled.

''Highly recommended'' -- Life and Work. An illuminating account of the experience of churchgoing with a particular focus on the Church of Scotland. Colin Maclean looks at the church service and its music, the sermon and the written word, ceremonies and occasions.

A collection of animal stories written to appeal to the under fives. The animals in the stories include a penguin learning to swim, a crocodile with an adventurous mother, and a special birthday treat for a tortoise. The book is one of a series designed for anytime reading.

Little Teddy enjoys a walk outdoors with his family.

One of a series of stories in verse, featuring characters from traditional nursery rhymes. This one is about Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater. He''s the village chimney sweep and lives happily in a pumpkin, until one morning he discovers that someone or something is stealing pieces of his home.

Describes how the body sends messages to the brain registering touch and sensation. Suggested level: junior, primary.

The material in this edition was previously published in 1990 by Kingfisher Books in The Kingfisher Treasury of Nursery Stories.

Jack and his beanstalk, the giant, and the goose that laid the golden eggs help the old woman who lived in a shoe find food for her twenty-one children.