В книгу входят три произведения для детей: восточная сказка "Дочь изобретателя фейерверков", готическая сказка "Часовой механизм, или Все заведено" и сказка-комикс "Джек Пружинные Пятки". В книге много прекрасных иллюстраций современных художников.
Вот почему алгебре и физкультуре в школе учат, а действительно необходимым вещам – нет? Ведь ни на одном уроке не услышишь: "Время детям не игрушка! Если вы вдруг увидите на улице машину (или магазинную тележку) времени – тихонечко пройдите мимо. Иначе вас ждут Большие Неприятности. Например, встретите собственного дедушку в коротеньких штанишках, и он задразнит вас до слез. Или вас примут за шпиона и арестуют. Или вы до конца жизни застрянете в Былых Временах, когда даже чипсов еще не придумали". Никому и в голову не приходит предупредить об этом. Зато если из-за неосторожного обращения со временем взорвется Вселенная - кто будет виноват? Правильно, Джонни Максвелл. А он всего-то хотел написать реферат по истории. Ну и, может быть, чуть-чуть эту историю изменить...
Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one. Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence. So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss. There's just one problem . . . Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates? You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined . . .
Plundering Paradise will whisk you away to a distant land and fill your senses with amazing sights, sounds and beautiful colours. You will feel as though you've really visited Madagascar and have lived among the pirates and the islanders.
ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM.
A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.
“All my life I’ll think you you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.
After his earlier big adventures (divulged in Harry the Poisonous Centipede), one would think this young centipede would have had his fill of drama and excitement. But that would be a "not-so," in centi-lingo. Harry (technically, his real, Centipedish name is Hxzltl, but we can call him Harry) and his best friend George (Grnddjl) once again find themselves in a peck of trouble when they are trapped in hard-air prisons by the dreaded Hoo-Mins (who might call these prisons jars). They manage to escape, only to embark on an extended good news/bad news-style adventure that spans landscapes (and seascapes) and involves taunting tarantulas, incredibly annoying marine centipede cousins, and a friendly, former-potential-meal lady dung beetle. Whether bravely biting the heads off a veritable army of soldier ants or crackling forlornly to each other about their homesickness for Harry's mother, Belinda (Bkvlbbchk), Harry and George stick together and stick it out.
I want to sail the seas,' said Jackson. 'I want to see the world . . ."
Jackson is a very unusual rabbit - a rabbit with a dream. He spends his days watching the tall sailing-ships coming and going. He LONGS to go to sea too. So one day - with his girlfriend, Bunny - Jackson stows away on the Atalanta and sails off in search of a new life . . .
Preston sets off to take a basket of food to his granny's, wearing a red coat and hood, and looking very much like Little Red Riding Hood. As ever, Mister Wolf is in hot pursuit, but he can't think which story Preston's red coat and hood reminds him of, and consequently can't remember what he is supposed to do...
All over the earth, babies are born and are grow up. Human babies sleep cozily in cribs, while seabird chicks sleep on cliff perches high above the ocean. New butterflies take to the air as human babies learn to crawl, then walk. In this friendly, accessible picture book, the authors gently encourage young readers to think and to question. Illustrated.
Clown finds himself thrown head-first into a dustbin with an assortment of other discarded toys. Bravely, he takes charge of his fate and goes off in search of help. The story unfolds without words in a fast-moving series of Blake's characteristically idiosyncratic illustrations.
Золото.