Author : Margaret Wild
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781921894855
Compassion is a force mightier than stone. Sometimes statues are granted a chance to become warm, breathing creatures. The stone lion has a dream to come alive, but when a baby is abandoned in his paws one snowy night, he is compelled to think differently.
Author : Yin-Lien C. Chin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315490722
Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful.
Author : Barbara DiLorenzo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698405080
The touching, magical story of a boy in a war-torn country and the stone lion that rescues him. Renato loves his home in Florence, Italy. He loves playing with his friends in the Piazza della Signoria. He loves walking home by the beautiful buildings and fountains with his father in the evenings. And he especially loves the stone lion who seems to smile at him from a pedestal in the piazza. The lion makes him feel safe. But one day his father tells him that their family must leave. Their country is at war, and they will be safer in America. Renato can only think of his lion. Who will keep him safe? With luminous watercolor paintings, Barbara DiLorenzo captures the beauty of Florence in this heartwarming and ultimately magical picture book.
Author : C.S. Lewis
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Author : Elaine Murray Stone
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809167074
Presents a retelling of the Ethiopian tale of Saint Tekla, a child prophesied at birth to be destined for greatness, whose friendship with a lion gives him credence when he goes out in the world to spread the Gospel.
Author : Kai Meyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2008-06-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439108781
Deadly magic and malice threaten Merle and Serafin in this breathtaking sequel to The Water Mirror. Merle -- carrying the mysterious Flowing Queen within her -- and Vermithrax, the winged stone lion, are flying into Hell. They are looking for help in freeing Venice from the invading Egyptian pharaoh and his mummy warriors. But some truly nightmarish surprises await them as they travel to the center of Hell and encounter its sinister ruler -- Lord Light. Serafin remains in Venice, where the gorgeous sphinx Lalapeya recruits him into a plot to assassinate the pharaoh. But does Lalapeya really believe a small group of boys can outwit the cunning sphinx commanders and kill the most powerful man on earth? Betrayal lurks in unexpected places, and startling revelations occur as Merle and Serafin learn that evil takes many shapes in the astonishing world of Dark Reflections.
Author : Helen Stephens
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407156306
How does a very small girl hide a very large lion? It's not easy, but Iris has to do her best, because mums and dads can be funny about having a lion in the house. Luckily, there are lots of good places to hide a lion - behind the shower curtain, in your bed, and even up a tree. A funny, heart-warming story about a very special friendship.
Author : Alison Lester
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1760892769
From one of Australia's best-loved children's book creators comes a beautiful new edition of this unforgettable story of courage, adventure and friendship. Nina lives with her father above the palace stables at the Royal Academy of Dancing Horses. She loves watching the famous white stallions as they parade for the crowds, but her favourite horse is a mare called Zelda - an old cab horse Nina often pats on her way home from school. When Nina's world changes dramatically, she and her father have to flee from the city. Their journey over the mountains with Zelda and the stallions seems impossible, with danger at every turn. It will require all of Nina's bravery, daring and faith in an extraordinary old horse.
Author : Mary Gentle
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Intersex people
ISBN : 9780575080416
'We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us . . . ' Ilario is born hermaphrodite, a true genetic chimera. Found abandoned on the steps of a chapel of the Green Christ, in one of the minor Iberian kingdoms, on a freezing snowy night, Ilario is fostered by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble, who plans to gift Ilario to the king, hoping to gain favour at court. At the age of 15, Ilario joins King Roderigo as the King's Freak, but while learning the ways of the court, Illario has another lesson to study: abondonment and betrayal. For Rosamunda, Ilario's birth mother, has arrived - and the secret of Ilario's shameful birth must be kept hidden, lest the resulting scandal ruin Rosamunda's husband, Videric, the king's most powerful advisor. When Ilario is freed by the king, he/she is summoned by Rosamunda. And when her attempt to murder her child fails, Rosamunda whispers 'Run . . . ' And Ilario does . . . across the Mediterranean, to Carthage.
Author : K.Z. West
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1490880224
Gwyns appetite for adventure pulls her into a fast-paced mystery involving a secret, a murder, and a missing girl. When danger shadows Gwyns steps and she discovers this latest challenge is more than she can handle on her own, she calls on her twin brother and best friends for help in uncovering the secret hidden in the stone lion. The lions secret proves to be only one of many enigmas lurking at Lions Run, and before the mystery is unraveled, the team faces a desperate criminal who will stop at nothing to achieve his hearts desires. Betrayal shakes Gwyns world, but God is at work in her life; how many truths will she discover in her search for the lions secret?
