The ninth book in the Tashi series of daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn. Created by the much loved, multi-award winning author/illustrator team of Anna and Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble. 'Don't go near the ghost house. Who knows what is prowling around in there!' There's a light in the window of the haunted house, and Tashi is going in. He's brave, but is he fast enough to beat two mysterious strangers in a race around the village? And what will happen if he loses? No one has adventures like Tashi. And no one tells such exciting stories.
Spiders and snakes and rats? The slippery demons are going to make Tashi talk ... and there's more trouble for Tashi when the fierce River Pirate returns without a warning.
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The eighth book in the Tashi series of daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn. Created by the much loved, multi-award winning author/illustrator team of Anna and Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble.
For twenty years Tashi has been telling fabulous stories. He escaped from a war lord in a faraway place and flew to this country on the back of a swan. And he wished he would find a friend just like Jack. In this first book of his daring adventures, Tashi tells Jack about the time he tricked the last dragon of all. Now, a whole generation of readers know that when Tashi says, 'Well, it was like this...' a new adventure is about to begin. 'All children should meet Tashi. He can be their mentor on the road to reading, feeding their imaginations with fantastic stories...The Tashi stories have the evergreen qualities of classics.' MAGPIES 'I read my kids Tashi - it's this story that they love' ANGELINA JOLIE
This fresh translation of one of the only surviving Mongol sources about the Mongol empire, brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text.
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Tashi always has daring adventures. Like the time he meets Chintu, the giant as big as a mountain, or the time that Chintu's Only Brother wants to eat everything in the village, or the time when the demons sneak onto the new bus and kidnap the driver's son. But clever Tashi always knows what to do: stay calm, think hard and move fast! Explore the wonderful world of Tashi in these eight enormous adventures in one volume! ACCLAIM FOR TASHI First published in 1995 and has now achieved classic status with sales of over one million copies. 'All children should meet Tashi. He can be their mentor on the road to reading, feeding their imaginations with fantastic stories. The Tashi stories have the evergreen qualities of classics.' Magpies 'The Tashi stories are some of my all-time favourites: a world within a world and a magical place for children to lose themselves in.' Sally Rippin, bestselling author of Polly and Buster and Billie B. Brown 'I read my kids Tashi - it's this story that they love.' Angelina Jolie