Andrea Hirata adalah pemenang pertama penghargaan sastra New York Book Festival 2013, untuk The Rainbow Troops, Laskar Pelangi edisi Amerika, penerbit Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, kategori general fiction, dan pemenang pertama Buchawards 2013, Jerman, untuk Die Regenbogen Truppe, Laskar Pelangi edisi Jerman, penerbit Hanser Berlin. Dia juga pemenang seleksi short story majalah sastra terk…
Yuyun senang berpetualang di alam terbuka. Saat pindah ke Bali, dia sedih karena banyak sampah yang mengotori hutan bakau di tepi pantai. Ternyata, semua sampah itu berasal dari hotel - hotel terdekat. Namun, para pengelola hotel tidak peduli. Padahal sampah-sampah itu merusak keindahan alam hutan dan mengancam kesehatan anak-anak yang bermain di sans. Akankah Yuyun menemukan cara untuk members…
Apa itu Traktor? Traktor adalah kendaraan yang didesain secara spesifik untuk keperluan traksi tinggi pada kecepatan rendah, atau untuk menarik trailer atau implemen yang digunakan dalam pertanian atau konstruksi. Istilah ini umum digunakan untuk mendefinisikan suatu jenis kendaraan untuk pertanian. Instrumen pertanian umumnya digerakkan dengan menggunakan kendaraan ini, ditarik ataupun didoro…
Besok mau sekolah. Mika harus siap-siap. Apa saja yang akan dibawa Mika ke sekolah? Bola? Krayon? Atau si babi kecil? Ayay dan koge boleh juga!
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Am Invited to a Party! Piggie is invited to her first party. She doesn't know what to wear, though, so she asks her best friend Elephant for help. Elephant's advice is odd to say the least, so Piggie will try on all sorts of z…
An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained with clear text and bright, infographic style illustrations. Includes tips on how to argue and debate, a glossary, and links to specially selected websites with more information.
from the back cover: 'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instea…
With each story taking about 5 minutes to read, Five-minute Bedtime Stories is ideal for parents to read with young children starting to recognise words. The easy-to-read text also allows independent readers or older children to read aloud with confidence. The book is split into sections including Trickery & Mischief, Royal Adventures, and Fantastic Journeys.
from the book cover: A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human …
from the back cover: After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the hou…