Meet the Flying Doctors: Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and, of course, their trusty ''air ambulance'', Zog the dragon, in this fabulously original sequel to the bestselling ZOG, now available in paperback. There''s much to do, as they fly around tending a sunburnt mermaid, a distressed unicorn and a sneezy ...
The smallest fish can tell the tallest tales. "Sorry I''m late, Miss. I set off really early but on the way to school I was captured by a squid. I wriggled and I struggled till a turtle came and rescued me." "Oh, no, he didn''t." "OH, YES, HE DID." Tiddler is a little fish with a BIG imagination! What ...
Percy, the park keeper, always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But on a very cold winter night his animal friends require more of him than just food. One by one they appear, shivering on his doorstep, asking for shelter. Soon there is no room in the bed for Percy. This, the first Percy ...
Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football history with this collection of 50 true stories. Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Discover the incredible stories of heroes such as Messi, ...
George Orwell''s chilling fable of Soviet Russia''s brutal dictatorship, "Animal Farm" brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. ''All animals are equal - but some are ...
Four friends, three big and one little, are out for a walk. Suddenly, they spot it - a beautiful bird perched high in a tree! They simply MUST have it and - SHH! - they have a PLAN. So they tip-toe, tip-toe very slowly, nets poised - "Ready one.ready two.ready three.GO!" But, at the turn of the page, ...
You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas. It is a story that proves that nothing is impossible. If you are one of those people who believe that some things are impossible, you should put this book down right away. It is most certainly not for you. Because this book is FULL of impossible ...
Imagine you could go anywhere, meet anyone and do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on... you choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt\''s wonderfully detailed illustrations, Pippa Goodhart explores a whole range of scenarios ...
Jam-packed with the silliest of animals, this bestselling rhyming story will have the youngest of readers in fits of laughter. Cats sit on mats, hares sit on chairs, mules sit on stools and gofers sit on sofas, but Frog does not want to sit on a log! Jam-packed with animals and silliness, this original ...
Kniha - autor Astrid Lindgren, 192 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná Karl Lion admires his older brother Jonathan, who is brave and strong - things that Karl isn''t. Karl is sick and knows he''s going to die, so Jonathan tells him tales of the afterlife, Nangiyala, to comfort him. But then ...
After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he\''s so afraid of heights, he can\''t even bear to climb onto his bed, or reach his favourite cereal on the top shelf at the supermarket. But one day, fuelled by his passion for bird-watching, he decides to conquer his fears and something ...
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their ...
What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favourite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren\''t looking! ...
Gillian Cross\''s brilliant retellings and Neil Packer\''s clever illustrations bring to life Homer\''s Iliad and Odyssey, two of the greatest stories ever told. When first published Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention both for the quality of the writing and for their amazingly ...
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really, really didn''t want that to happen, just the same.Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands ...
A vivid, warm and atmospheric adventure set in the mountains of India, about a girl who is determined to protect the wild leopards of the mountain from poachers, perfect for fans of Katherine Rundell.
