Today’s exclusive Daily Deal from The Works is this fabulous Meryl Streep 3 DVD set including ‘The Iron Lady’, ‘Mamma Mia’ and ‘The French Lieutenants Woman’ for only £5.99! Originally selling for £18.99 that’s a super saving of £13! Plus you get FREE delivery on orders over £25!

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There’s no doubt that Meryl Streep is a legend. She’s won every acting award that’s worth winning and she still manages to be a mother and wife. As an actress and role model she beats the hell out of LiLo so introduce your teenage girls to her work immediately. Love her or loathe her, Meryl Streep portrayed Baroness Thatcher’s life and love of Denis so perfectly in ‘The Iron Lady’ and I wanted to run away to a gorgeous island just like her in Mama Mia (who knew she could sing? And dance!)

Bear in mind that this Meryl Streep DVD Set deal is only valid for TODAY, 20 May so place your order NOW!

The Works is selling the complete Mr Men collection for £37.99 instead of the usual retail price of £117.50. The collection includes 47 books and you are saving 68% off the original price – a total cash saving of £79.51.

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The complete Mr Men collection will keep fans entertained for hours and I would love, love to get this for my daughter. She loves Mr Men and we’re missing quite a few titles in the series. All the much loved classics are in this box, all the ones published as far back as 1971.

You get every title published, including the new Mr Nobody, and none of the ladies are included here. This is a really cool gift for someone special if their birthday is coming up!

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The Works is offering a ’10 books for £10’ on selected kids books. And considering that each book retails for between £4.99 and £9.99 EACH, that’s a saving of up to 85%

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The Works has a HUGE range of kids books, audio books, art materials, jigsaws, CDs, DVDs and adult fiction and non-fiction books. Their current ’10 kids books for £10’ offer applies to a selected range of books from ‘The Worst Princess’ and ‘My Giant Fairytale Sticker Book’ to the Octonauts series.

The favourite part of my day is lying next to my daughter reading her a bedtime story. Unfortunately her bookshelf is a little limited and she keeps choosing the same books over and over again so I try to make it interesting for myself by embellishing the story slightly. Previously she used to find this hilarious but not that she can read I’m pretty much snookered.. With this fabulous deal from The Works my little princess can now be entertained by a whole range of new kids books which she can actually read to me for a change! And with free delivery for orders over £25 there are a couple of things on the website that I’ll be adding to her order for me!

This is a really good one for aeroplane enthusiasts for the summer holidays that are only a few months away. The Stunt Planes book gives your child the paper and a step by step guide to make really cool paper aeroplanes. It’s normally £4.99 but you can get the book from The Works for just £1.99. That’s a cool saving of £3.00 or 60%.

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This looks like so much fun. Using the perforated papers from the back of this book your kids can make fun, brightly coloured paper aeroplanes. All they need to do is simply follow the step-by-step instructions to make their fantastic fliers in minutes. They can then fly them around the house or garden and see whose goes furthest and fastest.

All of the full-colour models featured in this book are very easy to make with the stunning artwork paper provided. Fabulous facts about aircrafts can also be found throughout the book. Making paper aeroplanes has never been so much fun!

The Works is currently offering the Handbook of Natural Baby and Childcare for £7.99 instead of the usual price of £9.99. This is a saving of 20% off the usual price with an actual monetary value of £2. Not a lot, I know, but this would make a lovely gift for an expectant mum.

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This book is all about raising your baby and child the way nature intended. It covers everything you need to know from birth to age five and is a practical and modern resource for every parent and carer. The book includes over 650 photographs which makes it a visual feast!

The book shows you how to care for your baby and growing toddler in natural, gentle ways. It takes a look at every aspect of your child – physical, developmental, emotional and behavioural – and it offers sensitive advice on learning how to be a new parent. This would make a nice present for someone who is expecting their first baby.

Save an awesome £20.00 on hours of building fun with the Mega Bloks 62 Piece Blok Town House Play Set from The Works. This set of Mega Bloks normally retails for £39.99 but you can get it for just £19.99 at The Works, that’s 50% off, lovely.

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Your children can now create and build a home for his or her Blok Town friends with the Blok Town House from Mega Bloks. They can build and decorate a multi-level home with spacious rooms and fill it with fun furniture. They’ll be able to build the rooms and put them together to create a great home for the Blok Town family.

The Mega Bloks Town House Play Set contains 62 pieces and includes two articulated figures, a car, doors, furniture and much more. There’s even a garden gazebo and flowers to put outside. Build and rebuild the house any way you want it and then customise it with lots of fun stickers. Guaranteed hours of fun!

Save £12.00 on the cute Accelerator Little Learner Laptop from The Works. This cool kid’s laptop has loads of features and activities and while it normally retails for £24.99 The Works have it on sale for £12 .99 so you’ll save an awesome 48%, excellent!

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With technology the way it is today and the rate at which it’s advancing your kid’s probably already know more than you about computers, the internet and anything that involves screens and a remote. Whether they’ve already hi-jacked your laptop or iPad or not it’s probably a good idea to get them started early.

You can get them ready for the gadget world with the Oregon Acientific Accelerator Little Learner Laptop. Get ready to play and learn while having fun the whole time. The laptop helps kids to learn numbers, shapes and colours and to boost their spelling and vocabulary. There are eight colourful double sided activity cards with fun illustrations for them to learn from and keep them busy.

Save a massive 72% or £26.00 on the Paper Jamz Red Pro Series Microphone and Effects Amp from The Works. This cool microphone and amp lets you sing along to your favourite songs and while it normally sells for £35.99 it’s now just £9 .99, awesome!

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Never miss a beat with the Paper Jamz Pro Series microphone and amp and sing your heart out with five special modes to give you that extra boost. You can add your own track or use the two preloaded tracks and sing along or alone to your favourite songs from your own library.

The microphone and amp have cool features such as pitch perfect to correct your pitch and sound like a pro or chorus and harmony to add extra voices to make you sound like you're part of a group or duet. Melody match analyses and tunes your voice to create a perfect melody and you can try auto-vibrato to add vibrato to your voice.

Whether you're alone or with friends and family you can always guarantee a good time with the Paper Jamz microphone and amp set.

Save a super duper £50.00 on the Bob the Builder Story Library Collection. This library contains 20 Bob the Builder books and normally retails for £59.99 but you can get it at The Works for just £9 .99. That’s a saving of 83%, smashing!

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If you’re looking for an affordable Birthday present or a gift for any other occasion this is the perfect gift for any Bob the Builder fan. It’s the complete collection of the Bob the Builder story books featuring 20 fun filled adventures with Bob, Dizzy, Scrambler, Wendy and all their friends in a special slipcase. You’ll have hours and hours of Bob the Builder reading, I know a few kids who are going to love this. You’re going to have enough bedtime story reading material for a while.

Sumsy and the Sunflower Spill and Travis and the Tropical Fruit are just two of the books in the 20 book collection, I hope you enjoy them all.

Hurry and get the Bob the Builder Library Collection now while it’s still available at this great price.

Save £7.00 on this cool Horrid Henry DVD. Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick normally retails for £9.99 but you can get it from The Works for £2 .99 at the moment, awesome.

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With this cool deal from The Works you’ll be getting Horrid Henry Gets Rich Quick and five other adventures. Horrid Henry is back causing mayhem in this latest DVD from the hit CITV series Horrid Henry, based on the bestselling books by Francesca Simon. In this hilarious collection of episodes Horrid Henry travels in time, turns detective and even tries being perfect like Peter for a day but Henry's cunning plans don't always turn out as he intends them to.

I keep getting super excited about spring and summer being on the way but sadly they’re not here yet and in the meantime, while the weather is foul, it’s difficult finding things to keep the kids entertained. While I’m not a big fan of plonking them in front of the TV for hours to keep them entertained sometimes you need to and having a good kid’s DVD on hand is always useful.

This is a superb deal for anyone who wants to get their kids into the wonderful world of reading. The Jacqueline Wilson 10 book box set usually retails for around £59.90 but it has been reduced heavily to only £9.99. That’s nearly a saving of £50!

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The highly acclaimed and hugely popular Jacqueline Wilson has won the Children’s Book of the Year, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Smarties Prize and the Children’s Book Award. She clearly knows her writing stuff!

In this 10 book set you get her funniest and most exciting books that are absolutely perfect reading material for young minds. You get the story of Tracy Beaker, Bad Girls, The Dare Game, The Lottie Project, Cliffhanger, The Illustrated Mum, The Bed and Breakfast Star, Buried Alive, Double Act and The Suitcase Kid. Enjoy!

Thanks to 12345678 at HUKD!

Use this The Works promotional codes to get 15% off your order. The Works is a chain of UK stores selling discount books, stationery, art and craft supplies. You can get some really nicely priced, good quality crafts on the site, so it is well worth checking out.

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• Discount: 15%
• Promotional code: EGG15
• Expires: 3rd April 2013

To use this code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the Promotion Code box. Standard delivery is normally £2.99. The code works on both full priced items and on those already reduced too.

I tested this out on a range of felt tip pens and drawing items coming to a total of £28.70. The code worked just fine on this deducting £4.46. When I changed my basket to include two sketch pads reduced to 99p each, the discount also increased to £4.75.

Thanks to Alw4rd1 at HUKD!

Get the ENTIRE Mr Men collection by Roger Hargreaves for just £37.99 at The Works. This collection of 47 books is worth £117.50 so you’ll be saving a whopping 68% or £79.51. It’ll make a fabulous christening or birthday gift for little ones but it’ll be loved by all.

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The complete collection will keep Mr Men fans entertained for hours. This set contains all 47 of the much loved classic Mr Men titles packed into a cool, bright and colourful box. All of them are there from Mr Tickle and Mr Greedy (published in 1971), through to the new 'Mr Nobody', published in March 2010.

There’s Mr Uppity, Mr Small, Mr Daydream, Mr Forgetful, Mr Jelly, Mr Muddle, Mr Dizzy and so many more for you and the kids to enjoy. The collection is a must for all Mr Men fans; they’re children’s classics with a character somewhere in the box set that will appeal to any and every individual.

Enjoy the whole Mr Men box set at a ridiculously discounted price from The Works!

There's an offer on at The Works: for £10 you get 10 books and with the code below you'll also get free delivery.

Buy in bulk and save on delivery too*

• Discount: Free Shipping
• Expires: 2 April
• Discount Code: FSDMAR

We've spent a lot of time in Australia recently, due to a member's illness. Doing the flight  with 2 little ones is hair raising at times but I feel like I've become something of a professional at keeping especially a three year old entertained on cramped and boring transport. Our Trunki has become my Mary Poppins bag of tricks and one of the winning things has been activity books, so you can see why this offer appeals to me hugely. Considering each of these books is normally almost £4 and if you buy them abroad, a lot more.

There are 61 books to choose from, and if you're looking for ten there are probably millions of combinations to choose from.

I've gone for a selection of activity books, the Dora Explorer paint book - those are really excellent - and a couple of story books.

What would keep your little one entertained?

The recommended retail price on this fun paper doll pack is £14.99 but you can get it at The Works for just £5.99, that’s a lovely £9.00 off. There are stories, paper dolls to dress and hours of fun to be had with the My Very Pretty Doll Dressing Pack from The Works. The girls are going to have so much fun with this one.

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This fabulous pack is the perfect goody box for little girls and would make a really cool and affordable Easter gift for them too. The pack comes complete with a fairy and ballerina storybook and press-out dolls and clothes that you can match to the characters in the book. The girls can also use their imagination and make up their own fun stories.

The dolls and their clothes are magnetic so the clothes stay on while the dolls are moving around acting out the story and they stick to the fridge or window frames for extra fun. They’re guaranteed to keep any young fashion designer entertained for hours!

The Works are selling this Thomas the Tank Engine original book collection of the 26 original books for £39.99, rather than the list price of £150.

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The 'official' name for these books is the Thomas the Tank Engine Centenary Library set - I'm not sure where the centenary bit comes into play because Thomas isn't 100 years old (yet) and there aren't 100 books in the collection...most confusing!

The Thomas stories were actually first published in 1946 (if there's anything Thomas you want to know, you can just call on me - I am the font of all Thomas knowledge!) and the books in this Thomas the Tank Engine are copies of those original versions.

I don't know anyone who doesn't love the little blue engine - he's cheeky, he's funny, the other characters are all so identifiable and everyone has their favourites and their 'baddies'. Whilst I loved Thomas, Percy was always my most favourite - he was just a little less 'perfect' than Thomas.

As your order is over £25, standard delivery is free so there's nothing extra to pay on top of your £39.99.

Thanks to Charli at HUKD

June Morley’s Time For Dinner is a fun children’s story about who will end up eating who in the animal world. It sounds a bit disturbing but has an amusing twist at the end and it’s available at The Works. The recommended retail price on Time For Dinner is £5.99 but you can snap it up for just £1.99, lovely.

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It's time for dinner and all the animals are very hungry. But, with the cat looking hungrily at the bird, the bird looking hungrily at the spider, and the spider looking hungrily at the fly, will anyone end up on the dinner menu? This humorous picture storybook with a comic twist will amuse new and emerging readers time and time again.

You can’t beat a good bedtime story and while the kids often seem happy to have the same story read to them time and time again it gets a bit boring for the parents! Add some new books to your collection or give this one as a gift to help mums and dads with something new and amusing to read the kids at night.

Half term is almost upon us, and if this weather doesn't improve soon soon, it's going to be a long cold wet two weeks of entertaining the children at home.  The Works has a sale on children's arts and crafts bits and bobs, and they're selling it all starting at 99p.

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We always have hope of a change in the weather, but if that doesn't come through, and today being Spring Equinox, my hope is already weak at the knees, there's always arts and crafts.

There are loads of options for you to choose from too, including:

• Activity Books
• Make Your Own
• Stickers
• Embellishments
• Glue
• Paint
• Pencils
• Colouring Books
• Paint by Numbers
• Paper & Sketchbooks

I just love deals like this. Nelson Mandela’s Conversations With Myself has a recommended retails value of £25.00 but you can get it at The Works for only £3 .99, that’s a completely ridiculous saving of 84%. The book is an intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage. It’s a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear and private.

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“In real life we deal, not with gods, but with ordinary humans like ourselves: men and women who are full of contradictions, who are stable and fickle, strong and weak, famous and infamous. Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.”

Go buy a copy for yourself and get to know this remarkable man a little better.

This is a model aeroplane junkies dream! The Airfix 1:72 Junkers Ju52-3M Model Kit is being advertised at The Works for £12.99 but the site says that you’ll get an extra 10% off when you add it to your basket! So basically for the kit that should be £16.99 you’ll be paying £11.69 which is more than a 30% discount.

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The Battle of Crete began on the morning of 20th May 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an airborne invasion using Ju-52s under the code-name Operation Mercury. This was the first such invasion.  Greek and Allied forces, along with Cretan civilians, defended the island. The floatplane version served in the Mediterranean and Norwegian campaigns too.

When you create your own model Junkers Ju52-3M you’ll be recreating one of the most famous transport aircrafts of all time, so cool. Even if your child doesn’t eat sleep and breathe model aeroplanes, which trust me, some of them do, they’ll love building this and putting it on their shelves.