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20204 кн.
In the Tale of Ginger and Pickles, a yellow tomcat and a terrier are shopkeepers in a small village. Though the mice customers make Ginger the cat's mouth water and Pickles the dog finds his rabbit shoppers faintly enticing, the two control their impulses and even extend credit to their customers. But how long can this combination last? The fifteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles has delighted...
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
In The Story of Miss Moppet, a kitten who is teased by a mouse bumps her head on a cupboard. The kitten feigns illness by sitting by the fire and wrapping her head in a duster. Will this ruse be enough to lure the curious mouse? The tenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Story of Miss Moppet has served children as a general introduction to books and to the Peter Rabbit series since its release in 1906.
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
Dori, die eigentlich Doria heisst, ist ein hilfsbereites und quirliges Mädchen, voller Phantasie und Lebensfreude. Sie geniesst das Leben auf dem «Schlosshof» vollumfänglich und versteht sich prächtig mit ihrer Grossmutter, sowie mit Tante Ulle und deren Sohn. Zusammen mit Peter, Tante Ulles Sohn, erlebt Dori viele Abenteuer. -
| Автор | Lise Gast |
Thom Rheden ist ein junger Ingenieur, der kürzlich einen Geheimauftrag erhalten hat. Gemeinsam mit dem Hirtenjungen Martino dringt er nun vorsichtig in die Regenhölle von Patagonien ein. Doch dieser Auftrag könnte ihm bald zum Verhängnis werden, denn das alte Sprichwort «Wer vom Calafatestrauch isst, kehrt nie mehr aus Patagonien zurück» könnte sich für ihn all zu bald als Wahrheit entpuppen.-
| Автор | Franz Braumann |
Ein Klassiker der Schweizer Kinderliteratur und ein wunderschönes Sommerbuch: Das sorglose Aufwachsen der Turnachkinder und die Beschreibungen der unbeschwerten Sommertage am Zürichsee Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bezaubern noch heute junge Leser, auch wenn Pferdekutschen und eine Schar Bediensteter mittlerweile wohl kaum noch zum Familienalltag gehören. -
| Автор | Ida Bindschedler |
In Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, Beatrix Potter's delightful original nursery rhymes are accompanied by the lifelike illustrations of animals that made books like The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Story of Miss Moppet so critically and commercially successful. The twentieth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes has delighted children and adults alike since its release in 1917.
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
In The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Flopsy are the parents of six children called the Flopsy Bunnies. While raiding a heap of rotting vegetables, the family is discovered by old Mr. McGregor, who throws them all into a sack. Will the Flopsy bunnies escape? The fourteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies has delighted children and adults alike since its release in 1909.
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
In The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, a farmer's wife believes ducks make poor sitters and takes their eggs to give to her hens to hatch them. The duck Jemima decides to find a safe place away from the farm to lay her eggs. When a fox offers to help, Jemima must keep her guard up. The twelfth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck has children and adults alike since its release in 1907.
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
In The Tale of Pigling Bland, an old sow sends away her eight rambunctious children. One of them, Pigling Bland gets lost in the woods and spends the night in a strange chicken-coop. The owner, a farmer named Peter Piperson offers to let Pigling Bland stay at his farm, but Pigling Bland isn't sure that's a good idea. When he meets a beautiful black pig named Pig-Wig, the two make plans to escape. The nineteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in...
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
In The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, a woodmouse finds it a challenge to keep a tidy house under a hedge that is visited by an assortment of insects. In this story, a beetle leaves dirty footprints and a spider leaves cobwebs in his wake after visits to Mrs. Tittlemouse's underground tunnel-house. Filled with beautiful illustrations of insects, this sixteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations has delighted children and adults alike since...
| Автор | Beatrix Potter |
Winner of the 2005 Ann Connor Brimer Award, short-listed for the 2006 Hackmatack Award The year is 1893, the place is Chicago, and the most fabulous fair the Earth has ever seen becomes an unusual home for a young Labrador Inuit boy dubbed Pomiuk, Prince of the North, who captures the hearts of the millions of people who click through the turnstiles to see Eskimo Village, one of dozens of living cultures showcased at the exhibition. Just as he did so long ago, Pomiuk’s adventures will once...
| Автор | Alice Walsh |
Ein weiteres Buch über den weltberühmten Tierfreund Doktor Dolittle: Zurück aus Afrika, muss Doktor Dolittle Geld verdienen. Er findet einen Wanderzirkus, in dem er das afrikanische Stoßmich-Ziehdich zeigen kann. Doch viele der Tiere im Zirkus leiden und erzählen Doktor Dolittle von den nicht artgerechten Zuständen im Zirkus. Natürlich hilft der Doktor ihnen. In einer spektakulären Fluchtaktion bringen sie zunächst die Seehundfrau Sophie zurück ins Meer…-
| Автор | Hugh Lofting |
Protagonizada por mujeres de distintas épocas, cuyos destinos se ven conectados por la magia, la saga Zahorí comienza en la antigua Irlanda, donde quedan pendientes una promesa por cumplir y un oscuro presagio. La acción se traslada al sur de Chile, a un pueblo llamado Puerto Frío, con la llegada de las hermanas Azancot a la casona de su abuela, Mercedes Plass, lugar donde se conectarán con la verdadera historia de su legado familiar.
| Автор | Camila Valenzuela |
El hermano mayor de Papelucho, ya no es el mismo.Al volver de sus vacaciones está convertido en un auténtico hippie, con pelo largo y collar, y sus padres lo miran feo. Entonces, desaparece de la casa. Papelucho decide ir a buscarlo y hará de todo para convencerlo de que vuelva.
| Автор | Marcela Paz |
Star Girl flies again in this sequel to the bestselling, award-winning Sophie Sea to Sea . Starting her new classes at the new French school in British Columbia, Sophie is happy to escape the old Alderson Avenue School where stuck-up Elizabeth Proctor and her friends rule. But trouble develops when the teachers go on strike and Sophie is forced back into Alderson. Will she have to endure as an outcast? Or will she, like Star Girl, save the day with a daring rescue?
| Автор | Norma Charles |
During a camping trip, 11-year-old Lee finds herself on a rough trail in a Vancouver Island forest. Halfway to an abandoned homestead, Lee trips and is knocked unconscious. She awakens in a world unfamiliar – all the usual landmarks have disappeared and the terrain is unpopulated except for a strange trailer and a herd of dogs. Lee investigates only to find an ornery woman at an easel who says she’s Emily Carr, and a family from the Depression-torn Prairies illegally logging the island’s mighty...
| Автор | Ann Alma |
Thirteen-year-old Mark Rogers knew that his Grandpa Luigi had Alzheimer’s but he hadn’t counted on it turning his life upside-down. When his mother suggests that the two of them move in with Grandpa and help care for him, Mark reluctantly agrees because his grandfather has always been something of a hero to him. He doesn’t know, however, how strange Grandpa’s behaviour has become or that the kids in his new school have a nickname for him: Crazy Luigi.
| Автор | Peggy Dymond Leavey |
Willa has never known her father. In fact, her mother has refused to tell the eight-year-old anything at all about him. Willa dreams about what he might look like and who he might be. She often asks herself why her hair, which is «afro-crinkly», and her skin, which is dark, are so different from her mother’s brown hair and pale skin. A substitute teacher’s request that the class draw pictures of their dads for a Father’s Day card launches Willa on an odyssey to discover the truth. Her head...
| Автор | Holly Haggarty |
A dramatic turn of events unites twelve-year-old Billy Gavin and seventeen-year-old John «Bearman» Redell, two boys from seemingly different backgrounds who discover that they in fact have a great deal in common – they are both runaways. Together, alone against nature in the rugged Alberta wilderness, they begin to deal with the demons of their pasts. When the news of a downed plane and a missing rodeo cowboy in the woods and mountains nearby reaches them, Bearman, an expert tracker who knows...
| Автор | David A. Poulsen |
In The Golden Grasshopper, ten-year-old Lisa’s and her cousin Paul’s lives were changed forever when they met Gagar, from the planet Ylepithon. In Galena’s Gift, Gagar returns with his precocious young daughter, asking Lisa, now a twelve-year-old grade sixer, to babysit her and teach her about life on Earth. How will Lisa and Paul accomplish this without arousing the suspicion of their fellow earthlings? Using her remarkable abilities, Galena is able to save a young alpaca close to Lisa’s heart...
| Автор | Rosemary Nelson |
El sastrecillo valiente o Siete de un golpe (Das tapfere Schneiderlein o Siebene auf einen Streich) es el cuento de hadas número 20 de la colección Cuentos de la infancia y del hogar (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), de los hermanos Grimm,
| Автор | Jacob y Wilhelm Grimm |
Musaicum Books presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: A Christmas Supper in the Marais The Three Low Masses Salvette and Bernadou The Three Christmas Masses
| Автор | Alphonse Daudet |
Ein gedeckter Tisch, ein Goldesel und ein Knüppel: Da der Schneider auf die Lüge seiner Ziege hereinfällt und glaubt, seine drei Söhne versorgen das Tier nicht gut, jagt er sie aus seinem Haus. Die Söhne machen eine Lehre und erhalten zum Abschied einen wundersamen Tisch, der sich von allein deckt, einen Esel, der Goldtaler produziert, und einen Knüppel, der einem in der Not hilft. Mit vereinten Kräften erreichen sie doch noch ihr Ziel.-
| Автор | Brüder Grimm |
Thirteen-year-old Jane Covington doesn’t want to go to Sky Lake to visit her grandmother for the summer holidays – she wants to visit her father in the north. But when she returns to the cottage on the lake with the tall cliff, she is happy to be back in the golden country sunshine. However, Jane soon involves herself in a mystery when she finds a seventy-year-old cry for help in the form of a very old letter. She traces it to the story of a suspicious fire that took place long ago. With the...
| Автор | Peggy Dymond Leavey |