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 ...
On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald''s estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that ...
How do germs spread? Can my body fight germs? and How do medicines help? Children are told to wash their hands and blow their noses to avoid spreading germs, but do they really know what germs are? Th.
Nothing is sweeter, as everyone knows, than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes! All over the world, babies are different. Yet in some ways they are very much the same: each one has ten little fingers and ten little toes - to play with, to tickle, to wave. And each child is very, very special to its ...
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 ...
I am Bat. I like cherries. I do NOT like mornings. DO NOT STEAL MY CHERRIES. Bat''s cherries keep going missing. One by one, the precious red cherries are whisked away by mischievous animal tricksters behind Bat''s back. Bat fruitlessly tries to catch the culprit and rescue those poor cherries - all ...
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 ...
Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. From the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and illustrated in glorious colour by the artistic genius, ...
OH LOOK, there''s an EGG in your book! But this isn''t any old egg - there''s a dragon in it! And pretty soon she''s set your book ON FIRE. OH NO! Can you use your imagination (and your tickling skills) to help the little dragon fly off on her own adventure out of your book? Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott ...
