While they are making their trip to Marín with their parents, David, Jaime and Teresa are unconsciously preparing themselves for their adventure. Without knowing it, their curiosity about the legends and related mysteries will provide them with the necessary knowledge to cross the space-time gate they will find by chance. On their journey through space-time, they will revise their knowledge of their present and fantastic world, sharpen their inventiveness, and face unsuspected challenges to the point of endangering their own lives to save the “Kingdom of the Lake”.
This tale is about courage, adventure, the magic of friendship. From children to adults, all readers will find what they need in this magical book. As we all go through difficult experiences, changes in our lives, the message in this story helps see the strength we have in ourselves to become who we truly are.
In the course of a full day at Butternut Hollow Pond, readers will meet water striders, snapping turtles, herons, woodchucks, and other animals that live in the pond. Readers will learn how each creature fits into the habitat's food chain.
" The Magical Pond", A story of people attempting to find a new home. Meet Miranda and Samuel, children of immigrants who open their hearts to the love of their community. How her cultivation of a beautiful garden ignite and change those around her. It is a story of love, friendship, and death. How their love is kept in a magical place through time until the love of one child is able to " open the heart" of another changing the world forever.
Eleven-year-old Oliver enjoys tormenting insects, but his life takes a turn when his family moves into an old house which an assortment of animals doesn't want to vacate.
“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.
Make bath time magical with this stylishly illustrated accordion-fold bath book! Splish splash and be amazed as a beautiful black-and-white pond habitat comes to life when brushed with water, revealing a world of color. Smile with frog as she jumps in the water to greet her happy tadpoles and quack at the bumblebee with little duckling as he follows his family through the fish-filled pond. Keep baby entertained and learning in the bath with Little Hands Bath Books. Babies are born with undeveloped vision and researchers have found that they strongly prefer high-contrast images that stand out in their blurry new world. With an accordion fold and colors that are revealed by water, each of these durable bath books features enchanting, high-contrast illustrations of a lively panoramic scene on one side and individual labeled creatures on the other. Little ones will be enthralled as they develop their vision and language skills, as well as hand-eye coordination. Each book comes beautifully packaged in a plastic-free box.
Come along on a special journey to see how the magic of a small pond brought an unlikely group of friends together. See how Lilly, Bella, Sam & Gary discover the power of true friendship. They realize that surrounding yourself with people who love and accept everything about you, makes anything possible. Most importantly, learning to love yourself for who you are is the key to unlimited happiness.
