One humpy grumpy camel...five silly billy goats... nine busy beetles... they all appear in this charming, colorful book. Illustrated with lively watercolor images of Arabian life from sunrise to sunset, this is a book to treasure for its inventive pictures, and provides the perfect way to introduce the numbers between one and twenty to younger children.
One humpy grumpy camel...five silly billy goats... nine busy beetles... they all appear in this charming, colourful book. Illustrated with lively watercolour images of Arabian life from sunrise to sunset, this is a book to treasure for its inventive pictures, and provides the perfect way to introduce the numbers between one and twenty to younger children.
Khalid spends his days looking after his uncle's goats. One day he follows the goats higher up the mountain than he has ever been before, only to discover that one of the kids is missing. But he does stumble upon the home of an old man who tells him about the danger faced by the last of the leopards. When Khalid gets home, his uncle angrily sets a trap for the creature he is sure has killed the lost goat. In the following days, Khalid and the old man discover signs of a leopard and determine to save it from Khalid's uncle. Then Khalid learns that his uncle plans to allow a mining company to destroy the mountain and the last thing he needs is to be foiled by the presence of an endangered and protected animal. This beautiful, timeless and inspiring story set in the Arabian peninsula highlights the dilemmas facing traditional peoples in seeking to improve their lives, and will captivate animal lovers concerned about plight of the Arabian leopard.
The wild adventures of the popular Humpy Grumpy camel continue in Humpy Grumpy's Mission Improbable! Humpy loves the movies and dreams of being an action star - driving fast cars, scaling tall buildings and catching criminals. One day all his wishes come true as he is thrown straight into the action for real - the tallest building in the work is surely no match for the coolest camel in Dubai. Will Humpy's improbable rescue mission succeed?
The Very Cranky Bear has an itch to scratch! The first time we met Bear, his cave was invaded by four playful animals, and this made him cranky. In The Very Itchy Bear there is just one creature bothering him -- a persistent flea -- and it's it's making him very itchy! Bear runs over land and sea to escape the affections of this energetic insect, but Flea won't won't let him go -- he just wants to keep saying hello! . When Bear does successfully get rid of Flea, he finds that he . . . misses him? A beautiful and improbable new friendship is born!