Author : Beverley Randell
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780170095938
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Author : Haitham Hashem
Publisher : Haitham Hashem
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In a peaceful little town, an old toyshop holds an otherworldly mystery. Consistently at 12 AM, the toys inside become fully awake, driven by a daring wooden manikin named Oliver. At the point when a baffling new toy shows up, the toys set out on an unprecedented excursion to resuscitate failed-to-remember companions and find the genuine wizardry that exists in their shop. This is an account of kinship, grit, and the force of affection in resurrecting even the most neglected dreams.
Author : Elaine Rogers
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0722348789
Mr Sam's Toyshop in Bluebell village is like no other toyshop in the world. Mr Sam makes all the toys himself, in a little workshop out the back, but not even he knows everything his marvellous toys can do. He doesn't see what they get up to at the end of every day, when the last customer has gone home and the toys are alone. Morris the monkey reaches for his drumsticks and Ola the elephant asks the clockwork mouse for a dance while the two clowns turn somersaults and Mr Wobble wobbles merrily. And the night is only just beginning. . . .
Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448214238
When a poet, Richard Cadogan, receives an unexpected £50 advance from his publisher for his new poetry book, he decides to go to Oxford for a well deserved holiday. The change of scenery and peace of mind is what he needs to recover his inspiration for writing, but little he suspects that what he envisioned as a leisurely time spent on long walks and visiting friends will turn into a mystery solving adventure full of unexpected and dangerous twists. After an eventful train journey, Cadogan arrives in Oxford late at night only to realise that he has forgotten the exact address of his stay. Relying on a distant memory of the place he boarded in years ago he accidentally enters a toyshop where, to his surprise and fright, he finds the dead body of a women. Before he knows he is knocked out and spends his first night of the holidays locked in the backroom of the shop. When he finally recovers from the concussion the body is gone and the toyshop turned mysteriously into a grocery store, and Cadogan himself is accused of trespassing and stealing food. Luckily for the puzzled poet his old university friend, the professor of literature, Gervase Fen is there ready to plunge into the midst of this mystery. The Moving Toyshop, first published in 1946, is Edmund Crispin's most famous novel featuring eccentric amateur detective, Gervase Fen.
Author : Richard Dienst
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784786543
The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global poverty, media politics and radical theory to parse the various implications of a world where man is born free but everywhere is in debt. Written with humor and verve, Bonds of Debt ranges across subjects-such as Obama's national security strategy, the architecture of Prada stores, press photos of Bono, and a fairy tale told by Karl Marx-to capture a modern condition that is founded on fiscal imprudence.
Author : Tamsin Oglesby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1849437165
Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong. It is adapted for the stage by Tamsin Oglesby and will be directed by Paul Hunter, Told By An Idiot's Co-Artistic Director. The Mouse and His Child continues the Royal Shakespeare Company's long tradition of creating new stage adaptations of much-loved childhood tales – including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Heart of Robin Hood, and Matilda The Musical, the RSC's award-winning Roald Dahl adaptation, currently playing in the West End.
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Children's literature
ISBN :
The adventures of a little boy, named for his father's favorite horse, as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.
Author : Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1780235453
Though he’s known now primarily as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetime Lewis Carroll was interested at least as much in photography as in writing. This book offers a close look at Carroll’s engagement with the medium, both as a creator and a collector of photographs. Lindsay Smith takes readers to the glass studio above Carroll’s college rooms at Oxford, where he created many of his striking portraits, and she also follows him into the field—on excursions to the theater in London, to the seaside at Eastbourne, and even to Russia. Smith also details Carroll’s enthusiastic work as a collector, in which role he arranged portrait sittings for photographers whose work he admired. Beautifully illustrated with a generous selection of Carroll’s work and that of other photographers of the period, this book gives fans of Carroll’s writing a new way to understand his creative genius.
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
At the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER I. THE HAY-LOFT CHAPTER II. THE LAWN CHAPTER III. OLD DIAMOND CHAPTER IV. NORTH WIND CHAPTER V. THE SUMMER-HOUSE CHAPTER VI. OUT IN THE STORM CHAPTER VII. THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER VIII. THE EAST WINDOW CHAPTER IX. HOW DIAMOND GOT TO THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND CHAPTER X. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND CHAPTER XI. HOW DIAMOND GOT HOME AGAIN CHAPTER XII. WHO MET DIAMOND AT SANDWICH CHAPTER XIII. THE SEASIDE CHAPTER XIV. OLD DIAMOND CHAPTER XV. THE MEWS CHAPTER XVI. DIAMOND MAKES A BEGINNING CHAPTER XVII. DIAMOND GOES ON CHAPTER XVIII. THE DRUNKEN CABMAN CHAPTER XIX. DIAMOND’S FRIENDS CHAPTER XX. DIAMOND LEARNS TO READ CHAPTER XXI. SAL’S NANNY CHAPTER XXII. MR. RAYMOND’S RIDDLE CHAPTER XXIII. THE EARLY BIRD CHAPTER XXIV. ANOTHER EARLY BIRD CHAPTER XXV. DIAMOND’S DREAM CHAPTER XXVI. DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT CHAPTER XXVII. THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CHAPTER XXVIII. LITTLE DAYLIGHT CHAPTER XXIX. RUBY CHAPTER XXX. NANNY’S DREAM CHAPTER XXXI. THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW CHAPTER XXXII. DIAMOND AND RUBY CHAPTER XXXIII. THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENS CHAPTER XXXIV. IN THE COUNTRY CHAPTER XXXV. I MAKE DIAMOND’S ACQUAINTANCE CHAPTER XXXVI. DIAMOND QUESTIONS NORTH WIND CHAPTER XXXVII. ONCE MORE CHAPTER XXXVIII. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft wall to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him ride on her back, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good. The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
