Watermelon Pip
Watermelon Pip

Author: Sharna Carter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780648872306

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Blue-eyed pip is juicy-sweet, but mightily sassy, too! She eats watermelon for breakfast, lunch and tea, sharing with no-one, no matter how hard they try. One day, though, the watermelon supply dries up. There are no watermelons at the little shop, the big shop, or the online shop. Not one. Pip has a sinking feeling in her hungry, little tummy.That is, until she remembers all those watermelon pips she used to spit over the fence while swinging on her tyre swing! She scales the fence, and sure enough, right there is a joyous garden of homegrown watermelons! Pip is overjoyed! But, just as she's about to begin devouring that juicy flesh, she remembers all the hungry faces with whom she never shared.She knows what she has to do ? And, so begins one of the most beautiful endings to one of the most heartwarming children's picture books you're ever likely to read.

Mike Cool-as-You-Like: In Business
Mike Cool-as-You-Like: In Business

Author: Justin Brown

Publisher: Weigl Publishers

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 148962595X

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AV2 Audio Chapter Books by Weigl bring you exciting fiction tales. These high-interest stories are sure to entertain and educate while captivating even the most reluctant readers. Test your knowledge with a fun self-assessment activity. Hear the book come to life as you read along in your own book.

Silly Tales For Children
Silly Tales For Children

Author: Robin Wickens

Publisher: Rob's Books

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13:

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Welcome to "Silly Tales For Children"! Within these pages, you'll embark on whimsical journeys, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the absurdity knows no bounds. Get ready to giggle, chuckle, and belly laugh your way through a collection of delightfully silly stories crafted just for you. In this book, you'll meet a cast of colorful characters: from a mischievous sock who dreams of world domination to a pancake with an identity crisis. Join them on their escapades as they navigate through wacky predicaments and unexpected twists that will leave you in stitches. But beware: these stories aren't just about laughter; they're also about friendship, courage, and the joy of embracing your quirks. Through the absurdity, you'll discover heartwarming lessons that resonate with readers of all ages. So, whether you're a kid with an insatiable appetite for silliness or an adult longing to rediscover the joy of childhood, "Silly Tales For Children" promises to tickle your funny bone and ignite your imagination. Get ready to embark on a journey where the only rule is to have fun and let your imagination run wild!

The Rotarian
The Rotarian

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1913-09

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

The Triumph of Seeds
The Triumph of Seeds

Author: Thor Hanson

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0465048722

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As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom. "The genius of Hanson's fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of things grow from seeds; it is about the seeds themselves." -- Mark Kurlansky, New York Times Book Review We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled the Enlightenment and cottonseed sparked the Industrial Revolution. Seeds are fundamental objects of beauty, evolutionary wonders, and simple fascinations. Yet, despite their importance, seeds are often seen as commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. Thanks to this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more. This is a book of knowledge, adventure, and wonder, spun by an award-winning writer with both the charm of a fireside story-teller and the hard-won expertise of a field biologist. A fascinating scientific adventure, it is essential reading for anyone who loves to see a plant grow.

Only the Animals
Only the Animals

Author: Ceridwen Dovey

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0374713065

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Perhaps only the animals can tell us what it is to be human The souls of ten animals caught up in human conflicts over the last century and connected to both famous and little-known writers in surprising ways tell their astonishing stories of life and death. In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette's theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany, a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. During the Siege of Sarajevo, a starving bear tells a fairy tale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the U.S. Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. Exquisitely written, playful, and poignant, Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by one of our brightest young writers. An animal's-eye-view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals but for other people, and to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.

The Hypnotist
The Hypnotist

Author: Laurence Anholt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1448196663

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WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2017 Jack has left his native Ireland and is making a new life as Professor of Neurology at a university in the American South. He has certain skills, honed over his lifetime, that he mostly keeps hidden. Skills in hypnotism and mind control . . . Thirteen-year-old Pip is plucked out of an orphanage by a farmer, hired as a farm-hand, and as carer for the farmer's wife. But Pip is black. The farmer and his wife are white. And this is 1960s America, where race defines you and overshadows everything. As racial tensions reach boiling point with a danger closer to home and more terrifying than either thought possible, Jack and Pip's lives become inextricably linked. And Jack's hypnotic skills are called on as never before . . .

The Furthest Horizon
The Furthest Horizon

Author: Gardner Dozois

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 0312271530

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“Diverse and remarkable speculations on futures so remote as to be all but beyond conjecture” by Brian Aldiss, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, and more (Kirkus Reviews). It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time—futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including: Brian Aldiss * Poul Anderson * Avram Davidson * Joe Haldeman * Alexander Jablokov * Paul J. McAuley * Ian McDonald * Michael Moorcock * Frederik Pohl * Robert Reed * Keith Roberts * Robert Silverberg * Cordwainer Smith * James Tiptree, Jr. * Jack Vance * Walter Jon Williams * Gene Wolfe “A variety of authors, writing styles and topics are included in this entertaining anthology, and Dozois provides insightful notes before each story.” —Science Fiction Weekly “Editor Dozois’ latest theme anthology presents 17 stories, many of them classics, set in a future so far from now that memories of today’s humans have been lost by our descendants . . . another feather for his cap.” —Booklist

Sons of the Rumour
Sons of the Rumour

Author: David Foster

Publisher: Picador Australia

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1741987695

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Sons of the Rumour is nothing short of a dazzling and genre-defying work of genius. Foster retells the tale of the legendary eighth-century King Shahrban of Persia who, furious at his wife's infidelity, has decided to marry and then behead a fresh virgin every day. But then the king meets Scheherazade, a beauty of such wiles and storytelling gifts she manages to entertain the him for 1001 nights, staving off death for both herself and her countrywomen. In the process, she also bears him three sons, wisely educates him in morality and kindness, and eventually convinces him to take her as his lawful wife. Intersecting with the historical tale is the story of Al Morrisey - a middle-aged, Anglo-Irish, former jazz-drumming everyman, on the run from a failed marriage, and cursed with Freudian daydreams of his mother and peculiar nightmares of all things Persian - as he vainly attempts to reconcile the past with the present and reclaim some of his youthful vigour. Ingeniously manipulating the frame tale of the Arabian Nights, and utilising all his narrative gifts of adventurous satire, David Foster has produced a work of fiction like no other. Sprawling, ambitious, explicit but frequently hilarious, Sons of the Rumour is a modern masterpiece, an utterly original novel by one of Australia's greatest living writers, a man who the Sydney Morning Herald critic Andrew Riemer has called Patrick White's worthy successor.

BEDLAM
BEDLAM

Author: Rick Kirkman

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1449440541

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Now in an annual, treasury-sized book, Baby Blues brings you another year of life with the MacPhersons. Often-befuddled Darryl and always-overworked Wanda manage to parent precocious Zoe, ornery Hammie, and Baby Wren while still keeping their senses of humor and sometimes even sweetness. In this collection, Zoe decides it's time for her to take karate lessons, Wanda declares she needs some time for herself and joins a book (wine?) club, and Hammie discovers the joys of a zip line. Mostly calm Wanda finally reaches her breaking point of asking the kids to clean up, unleashing a new force of nature to the comic strip: the Tsumommy!