Start to Draw Animals (Junior Funfax S.)

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused.

While they may have sentimental value, bibles passed down through the family are not often worth a lot of money. I attended the local junior school, followed by five years (1964-1969) at Bradford Grammar School before leaving to commence a career as an engineering technician. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

In addition, I’m passionate about the environment and its preservation and I enjoy spending time outdoors, either gardening or walking. In 1975 a work colleague and myself formed an astronomical society at the engineering company where we worked.

The radio and television work continued and I eventually make a series of appearances on the children’s TV-am programme Wide Awake, pointing out and describing some of the excellent things that could be seen in the night sky at the time. This book takes a fun look at the art of making shadows and provides pages of ideas of how to create even more exciting imagery. So 80s things like when kids cameras first came out, all my friends had one on school trips - mine was in a box in the loft being “saved”.

Know what you are getting into when purchasing rare books, and learn the difference between signed books and inscribed books. A number of the books I have written were for children and include First Facts – Our World and First Facts – Space (Henderson Publishing) both from the Junior Fun-Fax series; A Look Into Space (Henderson Publishing) from the Fun-Fax series; Space Exploration (Belitha Press) from the Belitha Information Library series; and Space (Belitha Press) from the My First Reference Library series. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. At around the age of five I was allowed to look through my father’s binoculars for the first time and I happened to point them at the stars.

Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy. Amongst the books written for an older readership are The Practical Astronomer (Quarto Publishing) and An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (The Apple Press), both being guides to practical astronomy for amateur stargazers. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places.

Apart from astronomy, I am a keen collector of crystals and minerals (chunks of our planet, you might say), books (which explains Tucana Books), pre-decimal English coins (this ties in with my love of history) and Australian stamps. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Those binoculars stood me in good stead throughout (indeed, I still have them) until after I left school, started work and purchased my first telescope at the age of seventeen. My continuing interest in astronomy took me into the realms of writing monthly night sky guides for local newspapers and appearing on local radio and television talking about all things astronomical. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media. Things I coveted but never got: that tree house thing with the green plastic canopy; of course, Mr frosty; soda stream; that tank thing that was around in about 1982 which had elementary programming buttons to make it go forward/ backward a certain number of moves.

In addition, during the 1980s I held the posts of Publications Secretary for the Federation of Astronomical Societies and News Circular Editor for the Junior Astronomical Society. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I did get a pc when I was about 10 though, when they were very expensive relative to wages and we were not rich at all. The book for which I hold most affection is The Skywatcher’s Handbook which appeared in 1985 and for which I was one of three contributors.