Books from Enchanted Lion Books

  • Ancient Greece
    By John Malam

    Explores ancient Greece, discussing farming, democracy, religion, and sports.

  • Inside Ancient Rome
    By David Antram, John James, David Stewart

    David Stewart, David Antram, Mark Bergin, John James. The Roman day , which lasted from dawn to dusk , was divided into twelve hours . The day began at one o'clock , when the family and the slaves met with the paterfamilias , the head ...

  • The Boy Whose Head Was Full of Stars: A Story about Edwin Hubble
    By Isabelle Marinov

    A beautiful picture book about the astronomer Edwin Hubble that invites children to ponder How many stars are in the sky? How did the universe begin? Where diid it come from?

  • Americanine: A Haute Dog in New York
    By Yann Kebbi

    A Parisian pup recounts his exciting visit to New York City to his canine pals in a story that features kinetically sketched images of such landmarks as Coney Island's Wonder Wheel, the Guggenheim Museum and Grand Central Station.

  • Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost
    By Betina Birkjær

    This book includes an afterword to the adult reader about dementia and recollection, written by Ove Dahl, a historian and head of the Danish Center for Reminiscence.

  • One Day
    By Lee Juck

    "A story about loss and connection. After his grandfather dies, a young boy tries to deal with his grief and imagines where his grandfather is"--OCLC.

  • Telling Stories Wrong
    By Gianni Rodari

    Grandpa playfully recounts a familiar fairytale--or his version, at least--to his granddaughter, and try as she might to get him back on track, he keeps on adding things to the mix, resulting in an unpredictable tale that comes alive as it ...

  • Over the Rooftops, Under the Moon
    By Jonarno Lawson

    A bird meditates on what it means to be alone and what it means to be together.

  • Ancient Rome
    By Richard Dargie

    ... 1990 ) Courtwright ( Usborne , 1997 ) Gods and Goddesses : In the Daily Life of the Ancient Romans by Peter Hicks ( Hodder Children's Books , 2003 ) Usborne Internet - linked Encyclopaedia of the Roman World by Jane Bingham , Fiona ...

  • Little Boy Brown
    By Isobel Harris

    "Little boy Brown is a lonely city kid, though he doesn't really know he's lonely, who spends the best day ever with his nanny and her family in the country"--

  • Up Down Inside Out
    By Joohee Yoon

    Illustrates a collection of aphorisms and maxims.

  • Science: 100 Scientists who Changed the World
    By Jon Balchin

    A vital reference to scientific knowledge profiles one hundred scientists, from Anaximander to Stephen Hawking, covering geometry, cosmology, medicine, chemistry, and computer technology.

  • The World's Poorest President Speaks Out
    By Kusaba Yoshimi

    In The World's Poorest President Speaks Out, Jos Mujica's famous speech comes to life as he asks us to remember our neighbors, our children, and the Earth.

  • Ghosts
    By Sonia Goldie

    In words and pictures, ghosts set the record straight about--ghosts.

  • The Strange Birds of Flannery O'Connor
    By Amy Alznauer

    "When she was young, the writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard.

  • This is a Poem that Heals Fish
    By Jean-Pierre Siméon

    After his mother, hurrying to her tuba lesson, tells him that a poem will cure his pet fish's boredom, a little boy tries to find out what a poem is by asking friends, neighbors, and other members of his family.

  • Finn's Feather
    By Rachel Noble

    "Maybe he wanted to say hi?" wonders Finn. "Maybe," Lucas says, "Hamish wanted you to have fun with it."Finn's Feather is a story about resilience and memory--about a child, his brother, and a friend who meets him where he is.

  • The Forest
    By Riccardo Bozzi

    "An allegorical view of human life as an exploratory journey through an ancient forest." --

  • Fing's War
    By Benny Lindelauf

    Follows teenaged Fing Boon and her large, impoverished, eccentric family as they navigate the changes World War II visits upon their little town on the border of the Netherlands and Germany.

  • The Blue Whale
    By Jenni Desmond

    An introduction to the world of the giant blue whale combines engaging facts with evocative illustrations that compare the whale's enormous size to objects in the everyday world.