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! ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s most famous historical novel.Set in Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution, this is the story of two men, Frenchman, Charles Darnay, and Englishman, Sydney Carton. As the Revolution takes hold and the Terror begins, the two men’s destinies bring ...
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 ...
When 13-year-old Lily''s inventor father vanishes after a Zeppelin crash, Lily''s determined to hunt down the truth behind his disappearance, helped by Robert, the local clockmaker''s son, and her wily mechanical fox Malkin. But shadowy figures are closing in and treachery lurks among the smoky spires ...
Lily hasn''t always had it easy, but that''s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She''s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up – she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon ...
Do prastarého města Ankh-Morporku dorazil fotbal! Ne ten starodávný, plný hrubého okopávání a odstrkování, ale ten nový, rychlý, kde jsou brankové tyče vyznačeny špičatými klobouky, a s míčem, který udělá bummpin! a vyskočí, když s ním udeříte o zem. Teď musí mágové Neviditelné univerzity zvítězit ve ...
inch.this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James, Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national ...
Macbeth is a famously cursed play, fraught with gruesome violence and supernatural evil. Some of Kate Stanley's friends question her choosing to direct its production for the 400th anniversary of its first performance, but Kate's expertise in the little-known secrets and obscure mysteries of ...
We’re going to the land of the dead and we’re going to come back.” Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been – and a journey to a dark place ...
Let the magic of J.K. Rowling''s classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its dedication, patience and loyalty. Harry''s ...
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When ...
