The Giant Snowball Mystery


Book Description

Rabbit wakes up to a blanket of snow, but just as he goes out to play he spots a giant snowball... he darts out the way just in time! Soon Mole and Squirrel join Rabbit in chasing the giant snowball to find out where it's going - and if anyone is inside! Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.




Postman Pat and the Giant Snowball


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Winter has arrived, and the whole of Greendale has been carpeted in thick snow. While out snowboarding, Julian and the other children decide to make a giant snowball. It gets bigger and bigger until suddenly it rolls out of control. Postman Pat rushes to the rescue.




The Snowball


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With big, bold illustrations and large type, children will delight in this easy-to-read book about a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything and everybody in its path. Simultaneous.




Snowball Earth


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The riveting story of Earth's first ice age and the scientist who discovered it 'An engrossing book on the emergence of a stunning new account of events on our primordial planet ... fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'This is a story worth telling ... Walker is an ideal person to tell it ... Racy and pacey, with a focus on the people involved ... A very entertaining read' Independent 'Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? A global adventure story and a fascinating account of scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove his maverick 'Snowball Earth' theory, this is science writing at its most gripping. In SNOWBALL EARTH, Gabrielle Walker takes us on a thrilling natural history expedition in search of supporting evidence for the audacious theory which argues that the Earth experienced a climatic cataclysm 600 million years ago that froze the entire planet from the poles to the equator. Because the global snowball happened so long ago the ice has now long gone - but it left its traces in rocks around the world and in order to see the evidence, Walker visited such places as Australia, Namibia, South Africa and Death Valley, USA. Part adventure story and part travel book, it's a tale of the ultimate human endeavour to understand our origins.




Snowball's Chance


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This unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction’s most inventive and provocative writers Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism. Orwell’s “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” has morphed into the new rallying cry: “All animals are born equal—what they become is their own affair.” A brilliant political satire and literary parody, John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance caused an uproar on publication in 2002, denounced by Christopher Hitchens, and barely dodging a lawsuit from the Orwell estate. Now, a decade later, with America in wars on many fronts, readers can judge anew the visionary truth of Reed’s satirical masterpiece.




Snowball


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Created by award-winning, bestselling duo Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet, Snowball is a brilliantly funny picture book, with wonderfully comical images illustrating the hilarious rhyming story - perfect for Christmas! A lonely young snowball, stuck at the top of a mountain, decides to visit the local town for a bit of fun – but on his way he trips, falls, and starts to roll . . . and when a snowball rolls through snow, we all know what happens! This snowball picks up not only snow, but a myriad of other odd things on his way down – a sheep, a line of washing, a bicycling bear, ending up in the Zoo.




The Luckiest Snowball


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"Help! I'm melting!" A boy rescues a snowball again and again in this funny story about a snowball that gets to see all four seasons. A boy makes a snowball and is about to throw it when he hears "Stop! . . . Let's do something else." So the boy and the snowball make a snow angel, build a snow fort, and make a snowman instead. The boy decides to take the snowball home. When the snowball starts to melt, the boy rescues it by putting it in the freezer, where the snowball meets some very nice frozen foods and a tray of ice cubes too. The snowball meets flowers and butterflies in spring, sea and sand in summer, and apples and colorful leaves in fall. With a bright, glittery cover and bold illustrations, The Luckiest Snowball is a great read-aloud to share. Children will enjoy shouting along with the snowball's refrain-- "Help! I'm melting!" There is back matter about the seasons and the three states of water. An ILA-CBC Children's Choice!




The Mystery of the Magic Toilet


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The Amazing Frog is back! Swindon's favorite resident is always seeking out exciting new adventures, but when the Amazing Frog is called upon to solve an unusual emergency on the moon, little does he know it's the start of his craziest escapade yet. The most important moon worm of all time has gone missing, and it looks like it's up to the Amazing Frog to find out where he's gone. And when the space ants decide they want to send along one of their representatives to "help" the Amazing Frog in his quest, things only get stranger. Aided by his trusty pal Pig Newton, the Amazing Frog must draw on all his weapons, contraptions, and-above all-wits to find the missing moon worm before it's too late. When clues begin pointing to a mysterious magic toilet-that appeared out of nowhere in Swindon one day, and seems to have awesome transformative powers-the Amazing Frog realizes that all may not be as it seems, and that strange dangers will stand between him and the missing moon worm.As the Amazing Frog makes his way through a world of fun puzzles and challenges, he encounters old friends (or in some cases "frenemies") like Joke Frog and Megalodon, and interesting new adversaries like Red Megalodon. He also learns more than he ever wanted to know about the nuanced relations between moon worms and space ants! But will he rescue the missing moon worm in time to avert disaster? You'll have to read on to find out! Fans of Pungence and the Amazing Frog are sure to enjoy this rollicking adventure for readers of all ages!




How to Trick the Tooth Fairy


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From the coauthor of Dork Diaries comes a witty and engaging picture book about a prankster who wants to pull off the best prank of all—pranking the Tooth Fairy! Kaylee loves pulling pranks: from dropping water balloons on passers by to even tricking Santa Claus, she’s a prize-winning prankster! But is she the Princess of Pranks? No! That title is held by none other than the Tooth Fairy. But when Kaylee loses a tooth and the Tooth Fairy goes about her usual tooth-taking business, Kaylee pranks her with a fake frog. As Kaylee and the Tooth Fairy try to out-prank one another, things get way out of hand, until the two finally see eye and eye and decide to share the crown!




Snowball


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Presents the true story of Snowball the cockatoo, who became an international sensation after a YouTube video of him singing and dancing was released, and describes how he became the subject of a groundbreaking neuroscience study.