Author : Robert Barton
Publisher : Tundra Books (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Determination (Personality trait)
ISBN : 9780887766503
- award-winning storyteller- retelling of a classic story
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1681372339
By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805067453
When his beloved donkey becomes ill, a young Italian boy is determined to take her to the crypt of St. Francis in Assisi in hopes of making her well.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 159017626X
London hasn’t been kind to Peter, a lonely boy whose parents are always out at parties, and though Peter would love to have a cat for company, his nanny won’t hear of it. One day, as Peter is walking out the door, he sees a truck bearing down on a tabby. Dashing out to save the cat, he is struck by the oncoming truck himself. Everything is different when Peter comes to: He has fur, whiskers, and claws; he has become a cat himself! But London isn’t any kinder to cats than it is to children. Jennie, a savvy stray who takes charge of Peter, knows that all too well. Jennie schools young Peter in the ways of cats, including how to sniff out a nice napping spot, the proper way to dine on mouse, and the single most important tactic a cat can learn: “When in doubt, wash.” Jennie and Peter will face many challenges—and not all of them are from the dangerous outside world—in their struggle to find a place that is truly home.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :
A lonely Parisian waif becomes emotionally involved with a street puppet show and the evil puppeteer. Her belief in the life of these dolls finally brings fame and happiness.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Boys
ISBN :
Pepino is a ten-year-old orphan whose love and livelihood is a donkey called Violetta. Violetta falls ill and Pepino, in desperation, seeks an audience with the Pope.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 000746052X
“If in doubt, wash!” What is it like to be a cat? Find out in this classic animal story from the renowned writer Paul Gallico.
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : International Polygonics Limited
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558820210
Charmed by her employers' beautiful wardrobe, Mrs. 'Arris, a London charwoman, visits the Dior salon in Paris
Author : Paul Gallico
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307789071
The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse. Shunned by society, he spends his days painting scenes of the coast and the birds that migrate to the meadowlands every winter. His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn. In 1940, with England at war, the birds depart early from the shores. The man, too, is called away by his duty as an Englishman to help evacuate the soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. A moving tale of love, war, bravery, and sacrifice.
Author : Mary Chase
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1590177584
Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you’ve had an older sister, an “awful, awful, bad, bad, girl—Loretta Mason Potts.” Who? What? Wait! ... But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly girl and so very very rude!) comes home and before you know it, Colin is secretly following her down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to an astonishing castle, where a charming and beautiful countess keeps court attended by a dapper and ever-obliging general, and in this world everybody loves Loretta (especially when she’s rude), so much so that they’re begging her to stay with them forever. What is the secret behind this mysterious other world and how does it connect to the many secrets in the Mason family? It’ll take a spellbinding, hair-raising adventure, involving not just Colin and Loretta but their mother and the rest of the family, to work that out.
