This colourful board book is packed with noisy vehicles from the building site. Pre-school children will love turning the chunky shaped pages and discovering a big bulldozer, a busy digger, a tall crane, a spinning cement mixer and noisy dumper. With bright illustrations, simple rhyming text that is perfect for reading aloud, and easy-to-turn pages, this is an ideal first book for toddlers. Par…
Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a twelfth century Korean potters' village. For a long time he is content to live with Crane-man under a bridge. Barely surviving on scraps of food. All of that changes when Tree-ear sees master potter Min making his beautiful pottery. Tree-ear sneaks into Min's workplace and dreams of creating his own pots someday. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for…
Mind the gap. Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds. Lured by a mysterious voice, Tom leaps into the early eighteenth century, to a time when circus “freaks” like…
I should probably mention something right now, before this story goes any further: my name is Theodora Grumman, and I am a liar. It's hard for Thea to wite four truths a day in the notebook her mother gave her for the summer. Especially when her grandparents' house on the Jersey Shore is even more packed with family than usual, and her cousin Jocelyn won't leave her alone. Jocelyn is the world…
This colourful board book is packed with noisy vehicles from around the town. Pre-school children will love turning the chunky shaped pages and discovering a noisy car, a busy bus, a speeding train, a zooming motorbike and a rumbling lorry. With bright illustrations, simple rhyming text that is perfect for reading aloud, and easy-to-turn pages, this is an ideal first book for toddlers. Part of …
Follow a small child as he walks, creeps, leaps, and swings through the jungle in this lively adaptation of a familiar nursery rhyme. And what does he see? Wild animals! A snake, a tiger, and an elephant—to name a few— each hissing, growling, or trumpeting. Could they be following him? Hope they’re not hungry! Full of thrilling exotic noises and bright tropical colors, Julie Lacome’s ju…