Author: David MacPhail
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782501606
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn isn't an ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Tired of Thorfinn and his too-nice ways getting them into trouble, his dad decides it's time for Thorfinn to earn his gruesome Viking name. Stuck on a longboat with a ragtag bunch of adventurers who'd like to throw him overboard, how will the Nicest Viking cope with a dangerous voyage to Scotland? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated, action-packed new series for young readers who love Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
Thorfinn and the Awful Invasion
Author: David MacPhail
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782501606
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn isn't an ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Tired of Thorfinn and his too-nice ways getting them into trouble, his dad decides it's time for Thorfinn to earn his gruesome Viking name. Stuck on a longboat with a ragtag bunch of adventurers who'd like to throw him overboard, how will the Nicest Viking cope with a dangerous voyage to Scotland? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated, action-packed new series for young readers who love Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782501606
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Prepare yourself for the wrath of the Norsemen! That is, if you don't mind and it's not too inconvenient... Everyone knows Vikings are ruthless barbarians whose idea of a good time involves pillaging, plundering and feasting. But Thorfinn isn't an ordinary Viking! He is always polite and happily offers to wash the dirty dishes. Too bad his dad is Harald the Skull-Splitter, Village Chief and the roughest and toughest Viking of them all. Tired of Thorfinn and his too-nice ways getting them into trouble, his dad decides it's time for Thorfinn to earn his gruesome Viking name. Stuck on a longboat with a ragtag bunch of adventurers who'd like to throw him overboard, how will the Nicest Viking cope with a dangerous voyage to Scotland? Thorfinn the Nicest Viking is a funny, illustrated, action-packed new series for young readers who love Horrid Henry and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, set in a world where manners mean nothing and politeness is pointless!
John Smith is NOT Boring! 2: Sir John the (Mostly) Brave
Author: Johnny Smith
Publisher: Scholastic Fiction
ISBN: 1407155024
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Johnny Smith might have the most boring name in the world, but his life is anything but dull! All he has to do is say a few magic words and he can whisk off into other worlds and go on amazing adventures. This time he's a brave Knight of the Realm. Using his quick wit and royal courage, Johnny will prove he's ANYTHING but boring.
Publisher: Scholastic Fiction
ISBN: 1407155024
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Johnny Smith might have the most boring name in the world, but his life is anything but dull! All he has to do is say a few magic words and he can whisk off into other worlds and go on amazing adventures. This time he's a brave Knight of the Realm. Using his quick wit and royal courage, Johnny will prove he's ANYTHING but boring.
Horrid Henry Robs the Bank
Author: Francesca Simon
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402279965
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favorite board game, comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip, vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter steals his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party—and gets his revenge by taking over as head teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402279965
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry helps himself to all the money he needs to win his favorite board game, comes up with another spectacular money-making scheme for launching a newspaper with all the school gossip, vows vengeance on Perfect Peter when Peter steals his birthday party theme and has his own Pirate Party—and gets his revenge by taking over as head teacher when Peter plays school with his goody-goody friends.
Natural History of Intellect
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Nisse Book
Author: Albert Jørgensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982877883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them luck and takes good care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of Danish (and Norwegian) folktales, known for their hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of Christmas porridge, they become very angry and play tricks on their human families. This collection of charming stories by Albert Jørgensen was first published in Danish as "Nissebogen" in 1935. The text of this English translation by Anne Ipsen is faithful to the original and includes the numerous original ink drawings by Louis Moe, famous for his imaginative illustrations of many classical Christmas books for children.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982877883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A delightful children's book about a Danish farm family and the Nisse that brings them luck and takes good care of them. Nisser are small invisible people of Danish (and Norwegian) folktales, known for their hard work and iconic red hats. However, if they don't receive their yearly wage of a bowl of Christmas porridge, they become very angry and play tricks on their human families. This collection of charming stories by Albert Jørgensen was first published in Danish as "Nissebogen" in 1935. The text of this English translation by Anne Ipsen is faithful to the original and includes the numerous original ink drawings by Louis Moe, famous for his imaginative illustrations of many classical Christmas books for children.
A History of the Vikings
Author: Sir Thomas D. Kendrick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136242392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
First published in 1968. The barbarians of the distant and little-known north, of Scandinavia, that is, and of Denmark, became notorious in the ninth and tenth centuries as pests who plagued the outer fringes of the civilized This volume is an English narrative of the Vikings and their activities in the west, far north as well as east and south-east also.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136242392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
First published in 1968. The barbarians of the distant and little-known north, of Scandinavia, that is, and of Denmark, became notorious in the ninth and tenth centuries as pests who plagued the outer fringes of the civilized This volume is an English narrative of the Vikings and their activities in the west, far north as well as east and south-east also.
Top-Secret Grandad and Me: Death by Tumble Dryer
Author: David MacPhail
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782504508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay’s grandad would fail spectacularly -- he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his granddad, he’s on the case of a dead body that vanished from the library of his Glasgow primary school. But what do diamonds, blackmail and dodgy launderettes have to do with it? David Walliams meets Agatha Christie in the first book of a new laugh-out-loud, weird-and-wacky mystery series for younger readers by the author of Thorfinn the Nicest Viking.
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782504508
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay’s grandad would fail spectacularly -- he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his granddad, he’s on the case of a dead body that vanished from the library of his Glasgow primary school. But what do diamonds, blackmail and dodgy launderettes have to do with it? David Walliams meets Agatha Christie in the first book of a new laugh-out-loud, weird-and-wacky mystery series for younger readers by the author of Thorfinn the Nicest Viking.
Thorfinn and the Rotten Scots
Author: David MacPhail
Publisher: Kelpies
ISBN: 9781782502296
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A funny illustrated early-reader chapter book series about a polite young Viking who only wants to do the right thing
Publisher: Kelpies
ISBN: 9781782502296
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A funny illustrated early-reader chapter book series about a polite young Viking who only wants to do the right thing
The Prairie Dog Conspiracy
Author: Eric Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
During a long, cold winter in his home town, young Tom Austen stumbles across some strange activity in an abandoned house. Through the snowy streets of Winnipeg, aboard the historic Prairie Dog Central and during a Ski-Doo chase beneath the Northern Lights, Tom unravels the secret of "The Golden Child and in the process realizes that the safety of one of his friends depends on him."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
During a long, cold winter in his home town, young Tom Austen stumbles across some strange activity in an abandoned house. Through the snowy streets of Winnipeg, aboard the historic Prairie Dog Central and during a Ski-Doo chase beneath the Northern Lights, Tom unravels the secret of "The Golden Child and in the process realizes that the safety of one of his friends depends on him."
The Norwegian Invasion of Scotland in 1263
Author: Peter Andreas Munch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description