Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A PUFFIN BOOK. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is a classic fantasy adventure. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux ...
Taking to heart his charming, insatiably curious heroine\''s words, Lewis Carroll worked many long hours (days, months.) with illustrator Sir John Tenniel to create the most perfect pictures imaginable for what were to become instant classics: Alice\''s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. ...
''I wonder what will become of her!'' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen''s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover ...
The achievement of Stephen King is unlike that of any writer. He has taken a genre which was somewhat moribund when he came to it -- the horror novel -- and transformed it into one of the most phenomenally successful areas for quality popular writing -- what''''s more, his unprecedented sales success ...
Paris - the most beautiful city in the world! The most romantic! It''s the perfect place for a girl and her grandad to spend the day. Join them as they explore Paris''s iconic landmarks and experience its culture and style first-hand: visit a traditional street market, climb to the top of Notre-Dame, ...
A perfect gift for any baby or toddler, this book is a charming addition to any baby''s collection of soundchip books. The bright high-contrast colours and patterns have been specially designed to appeal to young children.
Prebieha dotlač, termín vydania dotlače na knižný trh neznámyVäčšina detí miluje knihy od útleho detstva. Prvé knihy – leporelá by mali mať menší formát, tvrdé stránky, ktoré odolajú prípadnému útoku prvých zúbkov a jednoduché veľké ilustrácie. Baby''s very first black and white books Babies je súčasťou ...
An interactive journey around the world, on which children can place stickers of landmarks, animals and people in the right places, learning more about the world as they go. Fresh, modern illustrations make this a lively and inviting first atlas.
Bursting with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman, this story blends fantasy with humour and drama. Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - right now his life is spinning ...
In the spring of 1948, Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of "Death of a Salesman" - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following ...
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing ...
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don´t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara´s great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last ...
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their ...
For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and ...
