Author: Felicity Everett
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746071045
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
When Cassy the clumsy crocodile gets a job at Everglades Department Store, she certainly makes things happen but not in the way she hopes. Toys, food, chinashe leaves a trail of destruction behind her in every department she visits. But in the end, Cassy's clumsiness saves the day and turns her into a hero. Usborne Young Reading books combine exciting stories with easy reading text. Now the stories are brought to life with lively music, dramatic sound effects and superbly characterized readings.
The Clumsy Crocodile
Author: Felicity Everett
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746071045
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
When Cassy the clumsy crocodile gets a job at Everglades Department Store, she certainly makes things happen but not in the way she hopes. Toys, food, chinashe leaves a trail of destruction behind her in every department she visits. But in the end, Cassy's clumsiness saves the day and turns her into a hero. Usborne Young Reading books combine exciting stories with easy reading text. Now the stories are brought to life with lively music, dramatic sound effects and superbly characterized readings.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780746071045
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
When Cassy the clumsy crocodile gets a job at Everglades Department Store, she certainly makes things happen but not in the way she hopes. Toys, food, chinashe leaves a trail of destruction behind her in every department she visits. But in the end, Cassy's clumsiness saves the day and turns her into a hero. Usborne Young Reading books combine exciting stories with easy reading text. Now the stories are brought to life with lively music, dramatic sound effects and superbly characterized readings.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle
Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593521099
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From bestselling author and illustrator Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes another classic tale about one very clumsy click beetle. A perfect gift to share with the child or grandchild in your life. When a little click beetle falls onto his back, he seeks the help of a wise old click beetle. "Look at me," says the more experienced click beetle, giving a loud CLICK and flipping onto its feet. But try as he might, the clumsy little click beetle just can't get the hang of it--or can he? In the tradition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Carle creates a winning story of perseverance and pride in achievement complete with an ingenious fiber-optic microchip that truly gives voice to the valiant little beetle as it CLICKs its way through the colorful pages and somersaults into your heart. Praise for The Very Clumsy Click Beetle: "Sure to be loved and requested again and again, Click Beetle is a well-crafted story, joyfully illustrated, that speaks to the hearts of young children."--Library Journal "At once stark and sophisticated, Carle's trademark collage art fills the pages of his latest Very volume."--Publishers Weekly "Carle's trademark artwork, featuring large, colorful collages set against expansive white space, is--as always--a strong attribute."--Booklist
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593521099
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From bestselling author and illustrator Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes another classic tale about one very clumsy click beetle. A perfect gift to share with the child or grandchild in your life. When a little click beetle falls onto his back, he seeks the help of a wise old click beetle. "Look at me," says the more experienced click beetle, giving a loud CLICK and flipping onto its feet. But try as he might, the clumsy little click beetle just can't get the hang of it--or can he? In the tradition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Carle creates a winning story of perseverance and pride in achievement complete with an ingenious fiber-optic microchip that truly gives voice to the valiant little beetle as it CLICKs its way through the colorful pages and somersaults into your heart. Praise for The Very Clumsy Click Beetle: "Sure to be loved and requested again and again, Click Beetle is a well-crafted story, joyfully illustrated, that speaks to the hearts of young children."--Library Journal "At once stark and sophisticated, Carle's trademark collage art fills the pages of his latest Very volume."--Publishers Weekly "Carle's trademark artwork, featuring large, colorful collages set against expansive white space, is--as always--a strong attribute."--Booklist
Cordelia, Dance!
Author:
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Cordelia the crocodile unhappily creates chaos in her dance class, until she meets a student even clumsier than she is.
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Cordelia the crocodile unhappily creates chaos in her dance class, until she meets a student even clumsier than she is.
Fidgety Fish
Author: Ruth Galloway
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1680109022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Tiddler is a fidgety fish, darting and wriggling all over the place. His mom tells him to go out into the sea and swim until he's tired. "But watch out for the Big Fish," she warns him. Tiddler has a great time exploring but then he finds a big, dark cave!
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1680109022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Tiddler is a fidgety fish, darting and wriggling all over the place. His mom tells him to go out into the sea and swim until he's tired. "But watch out for the Big Fish," she warns him. Tiddler has a great time exploring but then he finds a big, dark cave!
Riding a Crocodile
Author: Paul Komesaroff
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1938416511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski’s inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him. Riding a Crocodile is both an insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1938416511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski’s inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him. Riding a Crocodile is both an insider’s account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.
The Crocodiles
Author: Youssef Rakha
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609805720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609805720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, prose poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amid a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado, and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s provocative, brutally intelligent novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution, forcefully capturing thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo.
The People at Number 9
Author: Felicity Everett
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008216908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Meet the new neighbours. Whose side are you on? ‘An exciting, dark novel about friendship; brutally truthful and raw’ Adele Parks, Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008216908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Meet the new neighbours. Whose side are you on? ‘An exciting, dark novel about friendship; brutally truthful and raw’ Adele Parks, Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author
Illustrated Stories for Bedtime
Author: Lesley Sims
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409525271
Category : Bedtime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Contains the stories King Donkey Ears, Stone Soup, Danny the Dragon, The Clumsy Crocodile, The Enormous Turnip, The Inch Prince, Androcles and the Lion and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Age 4+.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409525271
Category : Bedtime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Contains the stories King Donkey Ears, Stone Soup, Danny the Dragon, The Clumsy Crocodile, The Enormous Turnip, The Inch Prince, Androcles and the Lion and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Age 4+.
Clumsy Crab
Author: Ruth Galloway
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1680109057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Nipper doesn't like his huge, clumsy claws. They are no use at all and they just get in the way. Nipper would much rather have tickly arms like Octopus, or tentacles like Sea Jelly, or flippety flippers and fins like Turtle and the fish. But one day, when he is playing with his friends, Nipper finds that his claws are very useful after all!
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1680109057
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Nipper doesn't like his huge, clumsy claws. They are no use at all and they just get in the way. Nipper would much rather have tickly arms like Octopus, or tentacles like Sea Jelly, or flippety flippers and fins like Turtle and the fish. But one day, when he is playing with his friends, Nipper finds that his claws are very useful after all!