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Shulman Mark: Super Colossal Book of Storytime Stckers

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Super-big, super-fun, SUPER COLOSSAL! This is one of the biggest collections of our popular Storytime Stickers series ever, giving kids even more entertainment than before! It’s the princess’s birthday: Find her hidden present. Let the unicorn games begin: Laugh and play with these magical creatures. A Secret Garden: Gather wildflowers on a very special morning. Enter the Magic Forest: The…

Dereen Taylor: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Presented in a large picture-book format with moving features — opening flaps, pull-tab actions, miniature books and hidden documents — this retelling of Treasure Island, for readers 7 to 10, captures the excitement and adventure of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal pirate tale. The book also includes a game board and play pieces, so youngsters can make their own pursuit of Captain Flint's…

Booth Martin: The American: Previously Published as A Very Private Gentleman

Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla — Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous — mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life. Clara — the young…

Willis Jeanne: Sing a Song of Bottoms!

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Join Jeanne Willis in the funniest talent show ever. In a fabulous rhyming text, meet bears with baggy bottoms, pigs with perky pinky ones and peacocks who love to put theirs on display. Perfect for reading aloud and guaranteed to cause fits of giggles, one thing's for sure — whoever is the winner, bottoms are top! This title is from the dynamic duo behind Bottoms Up!

Sachar Louis: The Cardturner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When Alton is asked by his ageing, blind uncle to attend bridge games with him, he does as he's told. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot…

Schwarz Viviane: There Are No Cats in This Book

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: The interactive cats are back, but not for long! They're eager to go off to see the world. So will someone please help them get out of the book? Our lovable feline friends Tiny, Moonpie, and Andre have returned, and this time they're filled with the spirit of adventure: they want to go off to explore the world! They have their suitcases packed and are ready to set out, but can't get out of the…

Downer Jim: Timmy the Tug

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames & Hudson is publishing a children's poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years. Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer's story about Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy's escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas. Downer's…

Anatomica: The Complete Home Medical Reference

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The best-selling Anatomica, now completely revised and updated, is a complete medical reference for the home. Organised thematically, the main part of the book covers major body locations, systems, health issues, and diagnostic techniques, from the head, neck, and skin, to infectious diseases and behavioural disorders. Detailed explanations written by a team of medical experts cover the role and…

The 2000s Britain in Pictures

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: This title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the Press Association. This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no less significant, occurrences. It presents a beautiful gift idea, either as a stand-alone title or part of this invaluable series. It is part of a…

Jones Michael: Leningrad: State of Siege

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected, wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941. In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in keeping even a proportion of the city's population alive. During the 900-day siege that followed, the German High Command deliberately planned to eradicate the city's population through starvation. By the time the siege ended in January 1944,…

Jon J. Muth: Zen Ghosts

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: It's Halloween. The trees are ablaze in fiery reds. Excited children don colorful costumes. And there's mystery and fun around every corner! When Addy, Michael, and Karl finish trick-or-treating, their bags are brimming with treats. But the fun isn't over yet. Their good friend Stillwater the panda has one more special surprise in store for them. A mysterious visitor is about to tell them a…

Rushdie Salman: Luka and the Fire of Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: You've reached the age at which people in this family cross the border into the magical world. It's your turn for an adventure — yes, it's finally here! So says Haroun to his younger brother, twelve-year-old Luka, in Salman Rushdie's thrilling, delightful, lyrically crafted fable for the young and young at heart. The adventure begins one beautiful starry night in the land of Alifbay, where a…

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince

Скачать книгу (размер 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 109) Аннотация: For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince has captured the hearts and minds of its readers. The whimsical story with a fairy tale touch has sold over 80 million copies in 230 languages. This exciting graphic adaptation features beautiful, new artwork by Joann Sfar. Hand-chosen by Saint-Exupery's French publishers for his literary style and sensitivity to the original,…

Maar Michael: Speak, Nabokov

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura, Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas with a revealing new perspective on Vladimir Nabokov's life and work. Hunting down long-hidden clues in the novels, and using the themes that run through Nabokov's fiction to illuminate the life that produced them, Maar constructs a compelling…

Rappaport Helen: Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenins character was in fact forged much earlier, over the course of years spent in exile, constantly on the move, and in disguise. In Conspirator, Russian historian Helen Rappaport narrates the compelling story of Lenins life and…

Long David: When Did Big Ben First Bong?

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Millions live there, millions more visit each year — but how many really know London? Do you know when Big Ben first bonged — or even who Ben was? Why the River Thames is so-called? Which top Nazi was locked up in the Tower? Or what runs through the more than 50 miles of train-size tunnels which ring the city, stretch further than the Channel Tunnel and lie deeper than the Tube — and, no, the…

Cathcart Thomas: Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: «From the authors of the bestselling «Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar», an uproarious new book on the meaning of death (and life, too) The new book by the bestselling authors of «Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar» is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big…

Chevalier Tracy: Remarkable Creatures

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: «A voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel From the moment she's struck by lightening as a baby, it is clear that Mary Anning is marked for greatness. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, she learns that she has «the eye» — and finds what no one else can…

Martha Lightfoot: The Fox and the Crow: Aesop's Fables

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: «When a hungry fox spies a crow with a piece of cheese in her beak, in this classic fable, he flatters the silly bird until she opens her mouth to sing — and drops the cheese to the ground. One of the best-known tales attributed to Aesop, «The Fox and the Crow» is presented in this board book for prereaders with Martha Lightfoot's simple and charming painted cartoons and her humorous retelling,…