The second adventure of Billy, the boy trying to balance normal 10-year-old problems with being a dragon Billy is in serious trouble. He's struggling with his shapeshifting lessons, there's a werewolf out to get him, and he's got the school soccer trials tomorrow. His best friend Jeanie is there to help, but how do you catch a werewolf when you don't know who it is? In a world where shop owners can turn into hamsters and teachers are trying to eat you, who can a 10-year-old were-dragon trust?
A new, laugh-out-loud series from the author and illustrator of Saurus Street. Billy is in serious trouble. He’s struggling with his shapeshifting lessons, there’s a werewolf out to get him and he’s got the school soccer trials tomorrow. His best friend Jeanie is there to help, but how do you catch a werewolf when you don’t know who it is? In a world where shop owners can turn into hamsters and teachers are trying to eat you, who can a ten-year-old were-dragon trust?
A new, laugh-out-loud series from the author and illustrator of Saurus Street When nine-year-old Billy Fincher gets bitten by a lizard at his local pet shop, strange things start to happen. His fingernails turn into claws, his skin becomes green, and he starts breathing fire. Billy can't hide it any longer--he's turning into a dragon. When his parents decide to sell him to the zoo, Billy has to make a decision: find a way to change back, or lose his family forever. Being a dragon is more complicated than it sounds!
Billy has home troubles, school troubles, and monster troubles in his fourth adventure There's nothing normal about Uncle Chunk. He's eccentric, unpredictable, and full of deep dark secrets. So why is he turning up at Billy's house when he hasn't been seen for years? Has he just popped in, or is there more to this mystery than meets a were-dragon's eye? And that's not the only thing Billy's got to worry about. Miss Hicks the werewolf has returned to school and his nemesis Scratchhook is watching his every move. Could this be the end of Billy the dragon?
Will and Maddie are imprisoned at Chateau des Falaises. Baron Lassigny is scheming to recruit them as spies for hire, but Maddie raises the stakes when she challenges Lassigny’s garrison commander to a duel on horseback. Will is horrified – especially when he realises the treacherous baron won't fight fair. If Maddie can survive the duel, they still need to escape the heavily guarded chateau and rescue the kidnapped prince they were sent to retrieve. It will take all their ingenuity, courage and determination to triumph this time – and to solve the mystery of who betrayed them.
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.
The sixth book in George R. R. Martin's critically acclaimed, world wide best-selling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE - the inspiration behind HBO's GAME OF THRONES. 'An absorbing, exciting read ... Martin's style is so vivid that you will be hooked within a few pages' The Times
Saurus St is just like any other street . . . except for the dinosaurs. When Jack wishes for his own Tyrannosaurus, he doesn't expect a real live one to turn up in the veggie patch. It’s pretty cool, but there's no way he can keep it. It’s far too big to hide in the shed, and it’s bound to eat one of the neighbours sooner or later. With the help of local whizz kid Toby, Jack builds a time machine and sends the T-rex back to the dinosaur era. But when Toby, Jack and Charlie the dog get sent back to the Cretaceous period too, there's more than one troublesome Tyrannosaur to deal with.
