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...*)
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.
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book – on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Great Britain and Ireland:_x000D_ London_x000D_ Cathedrals and Abbeys_x000D_ Castles and Stately Homes_x000D_ English Literary Shrines_x000D_ Other English Scenes_x000D_ Scotland_x000D_ Ireland_x000D_ France and the Netherlands:_x000D_ Paris_x000D_ The Environs of Paris_x000D_ Old Provence_x000D_ Cathedrals and Chateaux_x000D_ Various French Scenes_x000D_ Belgium_x000D_ Holland_x000D_ Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland:_x000D_ The Rhine Valley_x000D_ Nuremberg_x000D_ Other Bavarian Cities_x000D_ Berlin and Elsewhere_x000D_ Vienna_x000D_ Hungary_x000D_ Austria's Adriatic Ports_x000D_ Other Austrian Scenes_x000D_ Alpine Resorts_x000D_ Alpine Mountain Climbing_x000D_ Other Alpine Topics_x000D_ Italy, Sicily, and Greece:_x000D_ Rome_x000D_ Florence_x000D_ Venice_x000D_ Three Famous Cities_x000D_ Naples and Its Environs_x000D_ Other Italian Scenes_x000D_ Sicilian Scenes_x000D_ The Mainland of Greece_x000D_ The Greek Islands_x000D_
A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of this book – on the one hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions to make the trip. Contents: Great Britain and Ireland: London Cathedrals and Abbeys Castles and Stately Homes English Literary Shrines Other English Scenes Scotland Ireland France and the Netherlands: Paris The Environs of Paris Old Provence Cathedrals and Chateaux Various French Scenes Belgium Holland Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland: The Rhine Valley Nuremberg Other Bavarian Cities Berlin and Elsewhere Vienna Hungary Austria's Adriatic Ports Other Austrian Scenes Alpine Resorts Alpine Mountain Climbing Other Alpine Topics Italy, Sicily, and Greece: Rome Florence Venice Three Famous Cities Naples and Its Environs Other Italian Scenes Sicilian Scenes The Mainland of Greece The Greek Islands
The Garland of Past Lives is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Aryashura, the text’s accomplished artistry led Indian aesthetic theorists to praise its elegant mixture of verse and prose. The twenty stories in this first volume deal primarily with the virtues of giving and morality. Ascetics sacrifice their lives for hungry tigers, kings open their veins for demons to drink their blood, helmsmen steer their crew through perilous seas, and quail chicks quench forest fires by proclaiming words of truth. The experience is intended to arouse astonishment in the audience, inspiring devotion, through the future Buddha’s transcendence of conventional norms in his quest to acquire enlightenment and save the world from suffering. The importance of such stories of past lives in traditional Buddhist culture, throughout Asia and up to today, cannot be overestimated.
Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler. Farewell, My Lovely Dorothy L. Sayers. Gaudy Night Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon John Buchan. The Thirty-nine Steps Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Trent's Last Case Cyril Hare. Tragedy At Law Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone Erskine Childers. The Riddle of the Sands
