The Battle for Castle Cockatrice
The Battle for Castle Cockatrice

Author: Gerald Durrell

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1999-06-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780064407809

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What do you get when you cross a bunch of odious toads and ornery fire-breathing birds with one parrot, a distressed dragon, a group of weasels, a troop of mermaids, a herd of unicorns, a band of gryphons, and three children? When Penelope, Simon, and Peter go to the beach, they get a surprise they'll never forget. A package washes ashore and begins to speak! The children open it up to reveal a talking parrot and spider who were kidnapped and sent away. Their home is Mythologia, where sunrise takes place all day long and magical creatures like Mooncalves and Will-o'-the-Wisps lived peacefully--until the evil Cockatrices decided to take over. And now the new rulers are threatening to turn it into a land of cruelty and fear. It's only a matter of time before the Cockatrices become all powerful. So with the help of a counterspy toad, Penelope, Simon, and Peter decide to do everything they can to help overthrow the wicked birds. But will they be able to survive a trip to Mythologia's scariest places and defeat the evil Cockatrices? For Penelope, Simon, and Peter, a day at the beach is the beginning of an unforgettable adventure. A big brown package washes ashore and begins to speak! Imprisoned inside are Parrot and his companion Ducibelle, a spider, exiles from the land of Mythologia, where magical creatures like unicorns, dragons, and mermaids live together happilyuntil the villainous cockatrices (half serpent, half rooster) take over and enslave the entire population. Can the children help defeat the evil cockatrices and restore peace to Mythologia?A charming, whimsical tour-de-force, The Battle for Castle Cockatrice is a classic story that fantasy readers will welcome back into print.A marvelously created fantasy. The Horn Book

Battle for Castle Cockatrice
Battle for Castle Cockatrice

Author: Gerald Durrell

Publisher: Turtleback

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 9780606166997

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Three children befriend an unusual parrot and spider and travel with them to Mythologia, the magical land of mythical animals, to try and save it from being taken over by the evil Cockatrices.

Constable Colgan's Connectoscope
Constable Colgan's Connectoscope

Author: Stevyn Colgan

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1908717823

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For many years we've known about Six Degrees of Separation: the idea that every person on the planet can be linked by a chain of just six individuals. Now, former Scotland Yard criminal intelligence officer Stevyn Colgan has designed a paper-based wireless device to do the same thing with facts – a kind of Six Degrees of Information. Called the Connectoscope, it will teach you, among many other things, what humans taste like to robots, why there were bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover, how a tree became the New York Stock Exchange, why Bob the Builder has more fingers In Japan than in the UK, who the patron saint of medical records is, and how to make Superman gay. Colgan sets out to prove that everything can be connected. As this dizzyingly fact-filled book shows, the fun lies in figuring out how.

The Battle of Darkness and Light
The Battle of Darkness and Light

Author: Dante Alighieri

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-06-04

Total Pages: 8095

ISBN-13:

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e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited cothe collection of the world's greatest novels and stories with religious theme and spiritual messages: _x000D_ Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)_x000D_ Paradise Lost (John Milton)_x000D_ The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)_x000D_ Zadig (Voltaire)_x000D_ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace)_x000D_ Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)_x000D_ In His Steps (Charles M. Sheldon)_x000D_ The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry Van Dyke)_x000D_ The Ball and the Cross (G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill)_x000D_ The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky)_x000D_ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)_x000D_ Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)_x000D_ The Holy War (John Bunyan)_x000D_ Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (John Henry Newman)_x000D_ Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome (James De Mille)_x000D_ The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert)_x000D_ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)_x000D_ Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson)_x000D_ The Child of the Dawn (Arthur Christopher Benson)_x000D_ Where Love is There God is Also (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (John Henry Newman)_x000D_ The Uncalled (Paul Laurence Dunbar)_x000D_ The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)_x000D_ The Revolt of the Angels (Anatole France)_x000D_ The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain)_x000D_ The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli)_x000D_ Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev)_x000D_ Lilith (George MacDonald)_x000D_ Grace (James Joyce)_x000D_ The Student (Anton Chekhov)_x000D_

Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy
Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy

Author: David Thomas

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 1998-12-17

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 085052623X

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An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.