Harry Has Hiccups H

Read The Story To Hear The Sound H Makes.

This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. Harry tries and tries to get rid of his hiccups. He tries drinking a glass of water upside down, he tries putting an ice-cold key down his back, he gleefully tries eating a spoonful of sugar. But nothing works! In this charming picture book, written by children's literature legend Jean Little and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Joe Weissmann, Harry is afflicted with a case of the hopeless hiccups. It's not until Harry has a surprise encounter with a different sort of neighbor that it seems like Harry might finally get some relief...hiccup, hiccup...

Harry disrupts the school when he tries to get rid of a bad case of the hiccups.

The English comic novelist R. S. Surtees wrote sporting and satirical masterpieces, shining a light on the foibles and obsessions of early Victorian England. He created Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer obsessed with fox hunting, whose various misadventures would go on to influence Dickens’ ‘The Pickwick Papers’. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Surtees’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Surtees’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 8 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Plain or Ringlets’ and ‘Hillingdon Hall’ * The unfinished novel ‘Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses’ — first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original Victorian texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with John Leech’s stunning colour illustrations for the original monthly parts * Surtees’ rare non-fiction, including the seminal ‘The Horseman's Manual’ – available in no other collection * A bonus biography * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Handley Cross Hillingdon Hall Hawbuck Grange Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour Ask Mamma Plain or Ringlets Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds Young Tom Hall’s Heart-aches and Horses The Shorter Fiction Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities Mr. Jorrocks The Non-Fiction The Horseman’s Manual Hints to Railway Travellers Nimrod Fox-Hunting Fox-Hunting in Past and Present Times Thoughts on Fortune-Hunting The Biography Brief Biography: R. S. Surtees by Thomas Seccombe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Harry H. Corbett rose from the slums of Manchester to become one of the best-known television stars of the 20th century. Having left home as a 17-year-old Royal Marine during the Second World War, he fought in the North Atlantic and the jungles of the Pacific and witnessed first-hand the devastation wrought by the Hiroshima bomb. On his return home he wandered into the local theatre company and landed a starring role – The Front Legs of the Cow. Soon becoming a leading light in Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and a widely-respected classical stage actor, his life was changed forever by the television comedy Steptoe and Son. Overnight he became a household name as the series drew unparalleled viewing figures of over 28 million, with fans ranging from the working classes to the Royal Family.Naturally shy and a committed socialist, fame and fortune didn’t sit easily on his shoulders, and for the next twenty years, until his untimely death at the age of only 57, he had to learn how to be ‘’Arold’. Written by his daughter, Susannah Corbett, an actor herself, this is the first biography of Harry H. Corbett, the man who was once described as being ‘the English Marlon Brando’.

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