A new world with an ancient secret... Azalea Fern is fiercely curious, and in a world of giant buttermoths and crystal waters, there's plenty to see. So why does she long to explore the one place she's forbidden to go? Perhaps it's because the mechanicary house is old and creepy. Perhaps it's because the crumbling bricks are the last relic of an extinct species. Or perhaps it's because her ma said, 'Stay out of the ruin.' Whatever the reason, Azalea is about to dig-up an ancient secret that will shatter her perfect world forever.
You'll find lots of very serious poems about really important stuff (like toenails, sausages and yaks) in this hilariously irreverent collection of illustrated poetry from children's author Becci Murray. Don't Wear Your Knickers on Your Head is the new rib-tickling read for ages 6 - 10 years. REVIEWS FOR DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD 'Fun and lively poetry, perfect for Primary age children. My 9 year old daughter loved the travelling sneeze poem!Lovely to see work by a new female children's poet!' - Rae (reader's review) 'Amazing poems and hilarious stories! This book really made me laugh! I think that my favourite poem was 'DON'T WEAR YOUR KNICKERS ON YOUR HEAD' because I think that one made me laugh the most but they are all really funny!' - Abi (reader's review) 'An amazing book. I would definitely recommend!' - Mia (reader's review) PLEASE NOTE: Paperback copies of this book contain black and white illustrations, and the eBook is in full colour.
When Granny gets a sprout stuck up her sneezer, the whole family goes ABSOLUTELY CRAZY as they try to unwedge the veg from her nose. But the more they help, the more Granny yelps and the more festive foods disappear. Will that pesky sprout ever leave Granny's snout? Find out in this rib-tickling rhyming picture book from best-selling children's author Becci Murray. Share Granny's Got a Sprout Stuck Up Her Sneezer with the wonderful grannies and nannies in your life, and make some marvellously giggletastic memories today!
When ten-year-old Billy digs up a recipe in a corner of the school field, he boosts his brain to the size of Venus and turns into a mastermind overnight. But being a super-genius isn't quite so super as he thinks.
One of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written, The Education of Henry Adams is told in the third person, as if its author were watching his own life unwind. It begins with his early life in Quincy, the family seat outside of Boston, and soon moves on to primary school, Harvard College, and beyond. He learns about the unpredictability of politics from statesmen and diplomats, and the newest discoveries in technology, science, history, and art from some of the most important thinkers and creators of the day. In essentially every case, Adams claims, his education and upbringing let him down, leaving him in the dark. But as the historian David S. Brown puts it, this is a “charade”: The Education’s “greatest irony is its claim to telling the story of its author’s ignorance, confusion, and misdirection.” Instead, Adams uses its “vigorous prose and confident assertions” to attack “the West after 1400.” For instance, industrialization and technology make Adams wonder “whether the American people knew where they were driving.” And in one famous chapter, “The Dynamo and the Virgin,” he contrasts the rise of electricity and the power it brings with the strength and resilience of religious belief in the Middle Ages. The grandson and great-grandson of two presidents and the son of a politician and diplomat who served under Lincoln as minister to Great Britain, Adams was born into immense privilege, as he knew well: “Probably no child, born in the year, held better cards than he.” After growing up a Boston Brahmin, he worked as a journalist, historian, and professor, moving in early middle age to Washington. Although Adams distributed a privately printed edition of a hundred copies of The Education for friends and family in 1907, it wasn’t published more widely until 1918, the year he died. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1919, and in 1999 a Modern Library panel placed it first on its list of the best nonfiction books published in the twentieth century. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.
Barnabee bee loves to spell and dreams of being a spelling bee champ. Everyone believes he has what it takes a win. The only thing holding him back is his overactive imagination. Will Barnabee ever learn to BEE-lieve . . . in himself?
Nearly 5000 haiku by Jane Reichhold, written in English between 1993 - 2013 have been arranged according to the five seasons and seven traditional saijiki categories of Japan. However the haiku within the categories are arranged alphabetically - which makes this a dictionary.
