DescriptionThe adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land, featuring Captain Hook and his gang of pirates, the fairy Tinkerbell, and Peter Pan, the boy who would never grow up.
DescriptionWelcome to a world of secret islands, haunted houses, teachers, embarrassing dads and wrestling mums. In this collection of witty and thought-provoking poems, Steve Turner takes a quirky look at the pains and pleasures of growing up.
DescriptionOnce, Nurse Matilda made Mr and Mrs Brown's children good and well-behaved, but now they are naughty again. So when the children go to stay with Great Aunt Adelaide in London, Nurse Matilda has to be called to the rescue...
DescriptionIn 1935, with a doctorate and no job, the twenty-five year old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Written in an intense six weeks, Eine Kurze Weltgeshichte fur Junge Leser was first published in Vienna the same year. An immediate success, it has since been translated into seventeen languages. The original German edition was reissued in 1985 with an epilogue bringing the story to the present, and Gombrich further revised it shortly before his death, aged 92, in 2001.
DescriptionThere's nothing Beck likes more than speaking with the animals. Then her funny little friend, Twitter, tells her that war has broken out between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks. Soon the blackberries start flying and fairies are getting caught in the crossfire. It's up to Beck to get to the bottom of things.
DescriptionIt's the first day of a new school for Sam and Sara. So of course they're both hoping to fit in quickly. All they want is a helping hand - some new friends to keep an eye out for them and help them get ahead. What they're probably not hoping for is Thumb. Actually, a lot of thumbs. And fingers. They're turning up all over Freakham High in seriously unexpected places. But why? Can Sam solve the mystery of the bothersome body parts? Can Sara keep her cool in the face of the dastardly digits? And most important, can they get through the day without being labelled losers by their new classmates?
DescriptionIn their first adventure as Master Librarians, Jack and Annie go to the city of Pompeii to bring back an ancient story that is in danger of being lost forever. Little do they know they are saving the myth of Hercules! But before they can find it, the town's volcano erupts in a mighty explosion. Just when things look hopeless, Jack and Annie get some unexpected help from a certain mythic hero...and the rest, as they say, is history.
DescriptionThe best friend of our youth has no replacement, ever. Though we may start out as "two peas in a pod", we often lose touch with one another. In this affecting tale of two adults who reclaim their childhood bond after 30 years apart, the comforts of friendship are affirmed with humor and wit. The second story, "The Frog Jumped Twice", recalls a childhood lesson, learned at no small cost, that comes to full flower in adulthood. As usual, Davis deftly disguises a realization of enduring values in the guise of humor and remembrance.
DescriptionNow as famous on radio and audio as they are in print, the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained, and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp w…
DescriptionNow as famous on radio and audio as they are in print, the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting both young and old for decades. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained, and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks usually end in disaster, for his harassed elders at least. With friends Ginger, Douglas, and Henry (The Outlaws), and the angelic, lisping, thorn-in-his-side Violet Elizabeth Bott, William has rightly joined the literary, and radio, immortals. This volume of Just William features the following stories: William Holds the Stage William and the School Report All the News Aunt Arabelle in Charge William's Goodbye Present William, The Salvage Collector William's Day Off Entertainment Provided William and the Brains Trust William and the Bomb…
