A pack containing a copy of each of six titles in an illustrated series which answers children's questions about how things developed - be it a form of transport, a scientific process, or a physical or natural phenomenon. The approach is both historical and developmental.
Nearly a century later, when Lucy Martin moves with her parents to that same Iowa farmhouse, she discovers the strange and dangerous Book of Story Beginnings, and soon Oscar himself reappears in a bizarre turn of events that sends the two ...
A detailed account of this tradition is given by Sheila Deane, Bardic Style in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989). Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, read by Ed Begley, ...
An exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth.
The classic first story about literature's most beloved pachyderm. After his mother is killed by a hunter, Babar avoids capture by escaping to the city, where he is befriended by...
Cuthbert at Carlisle Bede knows of two visits of Cuthbert to Carlisle during his time as bishop. On the first of these, when he was being shown round the Roman ruins (VP xxvii) he had a sudden 'attack' of 'second sight'.
Help young readers become young writers with this sweet picture book about a child finding the words to tell his own story! If you’ve ever tried to write a story of your own, you know it’s not as easy as it looks.
word in which he did not believe , which did not spring from the heart , and he is therefore disturbed by the fact that he and the word “ dream ” don't entirely understand each other . “ The most important ingredient of a good song is ...
The Elders and the young man sat at the table. Dada busied herselfcutting vegetables for their soup and did not notice the young man starring at Dada's beautiful long curls. “You lied to me,” the young man whispered to one of the Elders ...
Take, for instancefor space will not allow of more than a samplethe story of "The Pursuit of Gilla Backer and his Horse," not by any means one of the best, yet characteristic enough. In it we learn that from Beltane, the 1st of Maythe ...
Several books detail the circumstances of the discovery: Fenster's lyrical “Ether Day” [1], Wolfe's scholarly “Tarnished Idol” [2], and Wolfe and Patterson's defense in “The Head Behind the Hands” [3] of Jackson's role come immediately ...