New Releases by Mark Burgess

Caractacus Algernon Tobias Crusoe is swept overboard and finds himself on a desert island. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

This guide to using Clarion Professional Developer, the acclaimed database programming environment for the IBM PC, will provide database devleopers and experienced Clarion users with the best and quickest methods for producing polished, useful applications.

A collection of humorous poems about food and eating. Includes such diverse topics as alphabet soup, partying pirates and a cocoa drinking elephant. Suggested level: primary.

Contains a collection of jokes, each with a birthday theme. Mark Burgess is the author of Feeling Peckish.

Featuring two stories printed back-to-back, this science-fiction book tells of the adventures of Zoe, her trusty robot, Minor, and the Space Pirates, Captain Slogg and his crew. Inspired by Star Trek and Doctor Who, this is by the author of Lucky Thunder and The Cat''s Pyjamas.

Captain Cat and his enthusiastic but incapable animal crew set off on a humorous journey. Turning a wheel completes the verse on each spread of illustrations by revealing the correct rhyming word and the section of illustration to match the choice.

Curl up with a A. A. Milne’s classic book of poetry for children, When We Were Very Young. This is the first volume of rhymes written especially for children by A.A. Milne – as popular now as when they were first written. Featuring E. H. Shepard’s original illustrations, When We Were Very Young is a heart-warming and funny introduction to children’s poetry, offering the same sense of humour, imagination and whimsy that we’ve come to expect from his favourite books about Winnie-the-Pooh, that Bear of Very Little Brain.

For contractors, project managers, architects -- anyone responsible for using and maintaining construction documents. The book covers: principles of sound documentation, including computer-generated documents; overcoming obstacles to paperwork preparation & distribution; writing effective transmittal letters, memos, cover notes -- with many examples; preparing paperwork that gets rapid results; selecting the right logging system.

When Harriet hides a circus horse in the closet at school, its nocturnal wanderings start a rumor that the building is haunted.