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From football legend, Gary Lineker, comes a collection of truly uplifting, empowering and extraordinary football stories that have inspired him throughout his career. Have you heard about the most controversial goal in world cup history?Or about the women's team who showed the world that football truly is for everyone?And I bet you didn't know about the team that won a match without scoring a single goal?Written with author and TV writer Ivor Baddiel, in this fun and fact-packed book, Gary Lineker shares 50 of his favourite football moments that highlight the many awe-inspiring, heart-warming and eye-opening moments that have changed the game - and sometimes the world - forever.From pioneering players, trailblazing managers, and incredible tales both on and off the pitch, this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about the beautiful game. And with Gamechanger Awards presented by Gary to incredible teams and players throughout, this is the ultimate gift for young footie fans everywhere.With additional LIONESS and WORLD CUP content in this Paperback edition!

These brainy kids are a SMASH hit! Young Marsham needsto survive a TV show competition where they don't just test triviaknowledge, they test everything... Marsham can answer almost all the questions on the TV quiz showshe watches with his family, so when his gran comes up with anidea for him to enter favourite show, Britain's Smartest Kid,in disguise... Marsham goes for it!But the show has surprises in store - including the fact thatsome of the challenges will be held on ice!The competition is fierce, and one of the contestants will stopat nothing to win.Can Marsham outsmart the others to claim the prize without revealinghis true identity - or falling flat on his face? Author Ivor Baddiel is a comedy writer who has worked extensivelyon TV reality contest shows - so he has written this hilariousbackstage mystery novel from experience!Includes lively illustrations by James Lancett throughout.Perfectfor fans of shows like X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, TheVoice, Child Genius, Dancing on Ice - and readers of Britain'sBiggest Star ... Is Dad?

Beautifully told picture book celebrating Hannukah, byIvor Baddiel and Kathryn SelbertLeora loved the preparations for Hanukkah.Cooking the food, putting up the decorations, getting out the hanukkiah, the specialHanukkah candleholder . . .Join Leora and her family as they come together to put the finishingtouches on their Hanukkah preparations andget ready to celebrate.For Leora, her main wish this year is that she will be allowed tolight the candles.Leora hopes her family will see that she is ready for such a bigresponsibility . . . If they do, she feels sureit really will be the happiest Hanukkah! Beautifully told story of family and celebration by Ivor BaddielGorgeous, heartfelt illustrations by Kathryn SelbertA child-friendly introduction to Hannukah

In the ultimate battle between good and evil, who will come out on top?BRAINCHILD is the incredible new children's thriller from Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker.Authors Ivor and Jonny wrote 5 books together and were working on a sixth, Brainchild, when sadly Jonny passed away. Undeterred, Ivor set about finishing the book which he has now done.It's a fast-moving, tense and exciting rollercoaster of a story about two brilliant 14-year-olds, Carl and Isobel, who are the custodians of a huge secret; in a laboratory hidden beneath their house, a human brain is growing.The brain's two hemispheres are developing well, but then Carl and Isobel make an astonishing discovery; one hemisphere is pure evil, the other is entirely good.In time, it's thought, they will merge and good and evil will exist together in the fully grown brain; for now though, the separation is marked and clear.All is going well until one fateful day when Isobel makes another discovery, one that could have devastating consequences - the evil half of the brain has been stolen and is running amok in the body of a teenager.Faced with this deadly situation, there is only thing that Carl and Isobel can do...BRAINCHILD is a unique and thought-provoking book for 10 - 15-year-olds

Many animals can be deadly, but which ten are the deadliest of them all? There are a lot of answers to that question in this book, from schoolchildren all over the country and from us at Purple Mash Publishing. But what do you think? Have a read and then come up with your own list. You never know, it could be dead on!

The authors of the bestselling NOT THE HIGHWAY CODE shine a light on the extensive back catalogue of dodgy predictions through the ages.The first end of the world prediction was recorded one second after the Big Bang and since then it has become the daddy of all predictions with, to date, no one getting it right. And human beings have been around for about 200,000 years, with very little evolutionary difference, and yet we still haven't developed X-Ray eyes or the ability to fly.In this book, Baddiel and Zucker examine the predictions that have been made since the dawn of time on a variety of subjects, from the end of the world and the human body, to global warming, robots in the workplace, teleportation and space exploration. With a witty and fresh tone, they examine how these predictions came about and why, and rate them for retrospective accuracy.

Ben Jacobs has made a list of everything that could possibly go wrong at his bar mitzvah, but even he didn't foresee that the shul might disappear just days before the celebration.The trouble is, no one believes him, apart from Grandpa. The rest of his family just carry on as normal except now they are behaving rather oddly. And there's a strange light in the woods behind the house, and some huge glowing egg-shaped objects appear at night. Is it just Ben's over-active imagination, as Mum and Dad say, or is something more sinister taking place?Ben turns to Grandpa for help, and together the two of them hatch a plan to save the world - and Ben's bar mitzvah.This zany and fun story of family, adventure and imagination is also about gaining confidence and growing up. Ben learns courage and builds belief in himself as a member of his family and the wider community.