Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease.With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?
Splat the Cat and his class go on a field trip to the aquarium! Splat tries to impress Kitten with his excellent sea creature facts, but he might not know as much about underwater creatures as he first thought. Mrs. Wimpydimple reminds them to look, don't touch. But Splat finds himself making a great big-splat!
The end of their world begins with a story.
This one.
In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. This isn't most fairy tales.
Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being -- called the Nybbas -- imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true -- not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph . . . or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story. After all, stories make their own rules.
Iron Hearted Violet is a story of a princess unlike any other. It is a story of the last dragon in existence, deathly afraid of its own reflection. Above all, it is a story about the power of stories, our belief in them, and how one enchanted tale changed the course of an entire kingdom.
Moose is amazed when he sees a sign by the side of the road that says "Moose Crossing." He must be very important to have his own sign, although his best friend, Hildy, doesn't agree. When tourists arrive, hoping to catch sight of him, Moose finds he can't go anywhere without being recognized. Suddenly his life isn't as simple as it used to be. Maybe being famous isn't all that great. How can he find a way to get rid of all those fans and get things back to the way they used to be?
It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate any sound there is." (Its former owner was a witch.) Pearl and the bone immediately take a liking to each other, and before you know it she is on her way home with the bone in her purse, left open so they can continue their conversation. Won't her parents be surprised when she introduces her talking bone!
But before that happy moment comes, the resourceful bone must deal with a band of highway robbers in Halloween masks and, worse, a fox who decides that Pearl will be his main course at dinner that night. And deal it does, with gambits droll and thrilling.
William Steig, incomparable master of the contemporary picture book, has never been better than in The Amazing Bone.
The Amazing Bone is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1977 Caldecott Honor Book, and a 1977 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books.
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Favourite Beatrix Potter Tales, a collection of four original Beatrix Potter stories that all feature in the movie Miss Potter. Read by Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson and Lloyd Owen.
The stories are:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit read by Renée Zellweger
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck read by Ewan McGregor
The Tale of Two Bad Mice read by Emily Watson
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher read by Lloyd Owen
The fourth meerkat story in the hilarious Awesome Animals series - awesome adventures with the wildest wildlife.Told in Ian Whybrow's unique style this hilarious Christmas adventure is a must-have for little meerkat fans.More hilarious adventures featuring Uncle Fearless, Skeema, Mimi and Little Dream - the all-star cast of Meerkat Madness, from the creator of the Little Wolf books. One of the fantastic titles in the Awesome Animals series - the funniest fiction, starring the wildest wildlife, from prize-winning authors.It's Christmas in the Kalahari and the Really Mad Mob of meerkats are about to have a very Merry Meerkat Christmas indeed!
Do ist die Tochter von Joe und Ria Delfin. Sie wohnen in der Nähe von Caraçao, einer Inselgruppe vor der Küste von Venezuela. In dieser Geschichte wird Do geboren. Es ist eine schwere Geburt. Nicht weil Mama Delfin Probleme mit ihrer
Gesundheit hat, sondern weil sie sich bei der Geburt in den Netzen von Kapitän Nada, einem illegalen Fischer, verheddert. Mit knapper Not und der Hilfe des legendären Otto Pan, einer uralten Meeresschildkröte, kommt Do doch noch so gesund
wie ein Fisch ins Wasser. Aber mein lieber Scholli, erst in allerletzter Sekunde.
Accidents happen, but they're usually the result of human carelessness. Charlie Morecraft found that out one August night years ago, when he literally blew himself up. A long time worker at an Exxon refinery in New Jersey, Morecraft was rushing to leave for vacation and too macho to bother following standard safety procedures when performing a late night repair job. The result? Burns covering 50 percent of his body, months upon months of hospitalization and rehab, dozens of surgeries, and emotional suffering that outdid the indescribable physical pain. Ultimately, Morecraft emerged from that inferno--as damaging to his family as to himself--to become a sought-after safety expert whose clients number more than 5,000 companies worldwide. Now, in OUT OF THE ASHES, Morecraft presents a wake-up call and a plan of action for anyone who's not in the habit of taking safety seriously. Morecraft's inspiring story has already helped thousands to put on their helmets, their safety goggles, and use their common sense before tackling any job or potentially dangerous activity.
The Aldens are making the journey to their Aunt Jane’s house on an overnight bicycle trip. But on their first night, the children are caught in a rainstorm and have to take shelter in an old abandoned house, when a most unusual mystery — a lost dog — finds them!
Woran merkt man, dass es bald Herbst wird? Wann bauen die Vögel im Garten Nester? Passend zu den vier Jahreszeiten erzählt dieses wundervolle Hörbuch von den kleinen und großen Erlebnissen aus dem Kinderalltag: vom ersten heiß ersehnten Frühlingstag, Pflaumenkuchenessen, abenteuerlichen Drachensteigen bis hin zu einfühlsamen Geschichten vom ersten Schultag.
Glückwunsch, Mary Anning! Hat das Mädchen doch glatt einen Ichthyosaurus gefunden und einen Plesiosaurus dazu. Und das schon vor 200 Jahren. Auf in die Vergangenheit! Die Dinos warten. Was es sonst noch über die schrecklichen Echsen zu berichten gibt, erfährst du in tollen Abenteuergeschichten und Interviews mit einem Experten.
