What do you do when a ghost knocks on your door asking to come in? Exactly! Us too - but that's not what King Winston does! So it's up to P.J., Sandra and the Moon Hare to sort things out... what could go wrong?! Sue Monroe's fantastic imagination strikes again with this third instalment of Moon Hare mayhem - the perfect chapter books to keep kids reading.
Good greetings! STOP, don’t move! Well, maybe a tiny bit is all right... just enough to start reading this book, right away, because it’s crammed with tons of exciting Stuff and Things... ...like castles and a moody, marzipan-loving DRAGON and PJ (not pyjamas, you’ll see) a queen and two kings... but not for long, because one gets KINGNAPPED and I must help rescue him before Bad Things Happen!
A fabulously funny, enchanting series. The Magnificent Moon Hare is packed with quirky characters, fantastic plot twists and thrilling, fun-filled adventures, perfect for any Roald Dahl fan!
Good greetings! STOP, don’t move! Well, maybe a tiny bit is all right... just enough to start reading this book, right away, because it’s crammed with tons of exciting Stuff and Things... ...like castles and a moody, marzipan-loving DRAGON and PJ (not pyjamas, you’ll see) a queen and two kings... but not for long, because one gets KINGNAPPED and I must help rescue him before Bad Things Happen!
Good greetings! Stop! Right there! (Unless of course you don’t like incredible adventures and Fun and Stuff!) BUT, if you’re like me and you do, then expect Treasure, pesky Pirate Plots, secret tunnels, a fiendish feathery foe, a Very Unexpected UNCLE... and of course, ME! If you don’t want a story about exciting Stuff and Things, do NOT open this book! (I know what I would do...*)
Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper—the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike. Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happenedis an adventure story of its own, a journey of “exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a graphite pencil but from a letterpress in Tennessee.” Readers will not find a collection of abstract formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in 1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages, I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened” is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavor.
Tarzan the Magnificent Edgar Rice Burroughs - The bones of a dead man, a black runner still clutching a cleft stick containing a message...Tarzan, mighty man of the forest, finds it and learns of the captivity of a white man and his beautiful daughter. Courageously going to their rescue, Tarzan finds they are in the hands of the Kaji, a mysterious tribe of warrior women who will mate only with white men. Thus begins Tarzan's most fantastic adventure, one that will keep you on the edge of your seat in excitement. Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel Tarzan and the City of Gold. As usual, he is backed up by Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors.
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
