from the back cover: 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England …
Subtitled A Comprehensive Visual Guide, the substantial Birds of Kuwait brings to life every one of the 390 or more species recorded in the state in a beautifully assembled catalog of images. It is chalk to the cheese of the other Kuwait guide on my bookshelf, George Gregory’s highly informative but unillustrated report-like Birds of Kuwait (2005). Between them, this small Gulf hot-spot is no…
The winning nonfiction team returns with a larger-than-life math book that is sure to fascinate young readers. Huge numbers are hard to comprehend. This book explains quantities in terms children can understand. For example, one million dollars could buy two full pizzas a day for more than sixty-eight years.
A science picture book about forces.