Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144812087X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Jack and Nancy wish they could fly to faraway lands, and on one very windy day their wish comes true! A magical tale of adventure - and finding your way home - from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake. Jack and Nancy love to hear the sailors tell of adventures far away. But one day, they are walking on the cliffs and it starts to rain, so Jack puts up his umbrella. But the wind picks up and WHOOOOSH they are blown away to an exotic island! They explore for a bit, and even meet a parrot, but there are no sign of any ships to get them home. How will they get home? "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.
Jack and Nancy
Author: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144812087X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Jack and Nancy wish they could fly to faraway lands, and on one very windy day their wish comes true! A magical tale of adventure - and finding your way home - from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake. Jack and Nancy love to hear the sailors tell of adventures far away. But one day, they are walking on the cliffs and it starts to rain, so Jack puts up his umbrella. But the wind picks up and WHOOOOSH they are blown away to an exotic island! They explore for a bit, and even meet a parrot, but there are no sign of any ships to get them home. How will they get home? "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144812087X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Jack and Nancy wish they could fly to faraway lands, and on one very windy day their wish comes true! A magical tale of adventure - and finding your way home - from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake. Jack and Nancy love to hear the sailors tell of adventures far away. But one day, they are walking on the cliffs and it starts to rain, so Jack puts up his umbrella. But the wind picks up and WHOOOOSH they are blown away to an exotic island! They explore for a bit, and even meet a parrot, but there are no sign of any ships to get them home. How will they get home? "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.
The Spellman Files
Author: Lisa Lutz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416594175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416594175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.
The Sea of Trolls
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184739731X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 184739731X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Jack is an apprentice bard and just beginning to learn the secrets of his mysterious master, when he and his little sister are captured by Viking chief, Olaf One-Brow, and taken to the court of Ivar the Boneless. Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court. Jack is sent on to the kingdom of the trolls, where he has to find the magical well and undo the charm he has cast on Frith. He is accompanied by Thorgill, a shield maiden, aged 12, who wants to be a berserker when she grows up. Together, they are set for a magical and exciting adventure.
The Islands of the Blessed
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481443100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481443100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
My Jack-o'-lantern
Author: Nancy J. Skarmeas
Publisher: Ideals Publications
ISBN: 9780824941178
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gordie has to wait until Halloween to see how the pumpkin from his grandfather's farm will become a jack-o-lantern.
Publisher: Ideals Publications
ISBN: 9780824941178
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gordie has to wait until Halloween to see how the pumpkin from his grandfather's farm will become a jack-o-lantern.
The Book of the New Alchemists
Author: Nancy Jack Todd
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Memory of Old Jack
Author: Wendell Berry
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458757978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458757978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
Every Heart a Doorway
Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765385503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
For the first time experience the first three hardcover volumes of Seanan McGuire's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series together in a boxset...
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765385503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
For the first time experience the first three hardcover volumes of Seanan McGuire's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series together in a boxset...
Martin & Anne
Author: Nancy Churnin
Publisher: Creston Books
ISBN: 1954354029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.
Publisher: Creston Books
ISBN: 1954354029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.
Great New Zealand Animal Stories
Author: Jack Lasenby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855583330
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A trouble-making bird is captured and taken to a zoo, but he escapes and heads for home.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855583330
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A trouble-making bird is captured and taken to a zoo, but he escapes and heads for home.