Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead
Author: William Pène Du Bois
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780060217501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis young boy does nothing for himself until a power failure changes his ways.
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The Twenty-One Balloons
Author: William Pene du Bois
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1986-05-06
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0140320970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
The Secret History of Marvel Comics
Author: Blake Bell
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2013-11-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1606995529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.
75 Years of Marvel
Author: Roy Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836548458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Hulk-sized tome spanning eight decades of the heroic rise of Marvel as it magically mutated from 1939's four-color upstart to a 1960s pop-culture dynamo to current Hollywood heavy hitter. With essays by comics historian Roy Thomas and a huge fold-out timeline that chronicles the entire Marvel history
Shakespeare's Spy
Author: Gary Blackwood
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-04-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1101562773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntrigue, betrayal, and romance surround Widge as we find him back in London and at the center of things, as usual. Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare's patron, has died, but the new king and his queen love drama-on stage and off. Shakespeare has begun a new play about political intrigue, but real intrigue is close at hand. Someone is stealing from the company, and Shakespeare's scripts must be guarded at all costs-including the one he has given up on and turned over to Widge to finish. Widge finds the glory of being a playwright appealing, especially when there's a pretty girl to impress. But spying is even more exciting! Readers swept up in the first two adventures about Widge and Shakespeare's players will be enthralled yet again by this third tale with its dramatic twists and turns and an ending worthy of the Bard himself.
The Boyscouts' Book of Campfire Stories
Author: Franklin K. Mathiews
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 386741503X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips." Contains stories from Jack London, Ellis Parker Butler and others. Originally published in 1921.
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club
Author: Bertrand R. Brinley
Publisher: Purple House Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe six members of the Mad Scientist Club experiment with new projects which include making rain and launching a flying saucer.
The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
Author: Jerry Beck
Publisher: Insight Editions
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1647221374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrate the best of Looney Tunes cartoons, just in time for Bugs Bunny’s 80th birthday! In a world of rascally rabbits, megalomaniacal ducks, and stuttering pigs, what defines greatness? This question was posed to thousands of cartoon fans, historians, and animators to create The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, the definitive Looney Tunes collection. Jerry Beck and the Cartoon Brew team of animation experts reveal the amusing anecdotes and secret origins behind such classics as “What’s Opera, Doc?,” “One Froggy Evening,” and “Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century.” Featuring more than 300 pieces of original art from private collectors and the Warner Bros. archives, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons settles the debate on the best of the best, and poses a new question: Is your favorite one of the greatest?
Henry Reed, Inc.
Author: Keith Robertson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1989-05-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0140341447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc., Research. Henry's neighbor, Midge Glass, has an even more sure-fire hit: Reed and Glass, Inc. Now with Henry's ingenious mind and Midge's practical reasoning, Reed and Class Inc. turns into a huge success--while creating more bewildering and outrageous schemes than the townfold could have imagined.
