Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781697
Christmas has always been a time for telling stories, and this collection draws on that tradition to create a wonderful mixture of stories for the festive season. It includes stories about presents and surprises; about family quarrels and loneliness; about both happy and sad times - and, of course, about ghosts. It all adds up to a thought provoking and absorbing collection which brings together stories about all the different faces of Christmas, and what it means to us.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780192781680
Christmas has always been a time for telling stories, and this collection draws on that tradition to create a wonderful mixture of stories for the festive season. It includes stories about presents and surprises; about family quarrels and loneliness; about both happy and sad times - and, of course, about ghosts. It all adds up to a thought provoking and absorbing collection which brings together stories about all the different faces of Christmas, and what it means to us.
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781673
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.
Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192782434
The winter landscape at Christmas, the story of the Nativity, the celebrations of the season, and the coming of the New Year-these are explored through more than 120 poems, both old and new. Included in this wonderful illustrated collection are poems by Ted Hughes, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Michael Rosen, and many more.
Author : Brian Wildsmith
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 0802851738
Rebecca, a young girl living in Nazareth, accompanies a small donkey searching for his mother to a stable in Bethlehem where they both witness a special event.
Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781802
This is a collection of stories in which nightmares and bad dreams are an essential part of the plot. In some stories the nightmare parallels or predicts events in waking life. In others, the nightmare takes over and the dreamer cannot get back to reality. There are also other stories which have a nightmarish quality to them. The characters are trapped and unable to make an escape.
Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781789
Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.
Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781451
A collection of ghost stories from mainly U.K. authors. B/W illus. 8-14 yrs.
Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192781512
A collection of 35 stories in which the main feature is the ending, "The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings" features works by Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, E, Nesbit, T.H. White, and many others. Illustrations.
Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192782212
A collection of folk tales and myths, fiction and fables about all kinds of animals.
