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Animals in Barnyard Meadows are glued to their phones. But Little
Red Hen doesn't just want to watch internet videos. She wants to
make them too! Unfortunately, her friends aren't eager to put in
the hard work of creating an online baking show. When each step of
the process reveals the wild side of their quiet town, will Red's
friends realize all the fun they're missing, and can the hen become
a video star? In this Far Out Fables adventure, "The Little Red
Hen" is retold with a modern twist to create an exciting graphic
novel for kids!
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet like you've never seen it - or read
it - before! Classics in Graphics: Romeo and Juliet has been
adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and
Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Wendy Tan Shiau Wei. The epic,
tragic love story reads like your favourite film on the page - as
Death stubbornly hovers over the heads of our star-crossed lovers.
Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for children
aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the
doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand. Including
dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging readers to
relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling in love and
winning duels. Each graphic novel includes pitch-perfect
illustrations for presenting the tragic, the romantic, the comedic,
the magical, as well as: - snappy simplified text presenting
Shakespeare's themes clearly - introductory materials to help set
the scene and context of each story - heaps of extra material at
the back to keep the learning and fun going, including an
exploration of themes in the play, the language, Shakespeare's
inspirations, the publication and performance of the play in
history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and much more!
Plays available in the series include: Macbeth The Tempest Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing
Laugh out loud with Captain Underpants, from Dav Pilkey, the
creator of Dog Man! Captain Underpants returns for a twelfth
adventure in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. George and
Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold,
have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other
two hide in the tree house and play video games all day - then they
switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, creates a
method of mind-control that turns their fellow students into
attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity
will be in their hands! About the series: Captain Underpants is now
a feature-length animated film from DreamWorks and a series on
NETFLIX The original Captain Underpants books are fully illustrated
with black and white comic book drawings The books are now also
available in full-colour graphic novels Perfect for all children,
but especially those who are struggling to engage with reading Full
of fun and laughs (and toilet humour)!
First name . . . Action. Second name . . . Dude. What would happen
if you put Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham and Die
Hard-era Bruce Willis in a bucket and stirred them together with a
big stick? You'd get something like Action Dude. That's his real
name. He used to be Charlie Munderdrew, but he changed it. Action
Dude lives for danger and excitement. He's always jumping out of
helicopters, crashing ships, running along the tops of cranes and
walking out of buildings just before they explode. He's nine years
old and also the bravest action hero there ever was. Except that
he's terrified of spiders. (But don't ever tell anyone that!) When
a theme park full of robots goes haywire, it's up to Action Dude to
come to the rescue. After all, no one else is crazy enough to just
walk in there and save everyone.
A taste for sweets (and for adventure) leads Michael on a fantastic
quest to retrieve a unicorn horn. Will he make it out of
Sweetlandia with his sugar-coated prize, or wash out in a fudgy
wave of failure? Find out more in this graphic novel!
Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes every human has two minds: one
good and one evil. He develops a potion to separate them from each
other. Soon, his evil mind takes over, and Dr. Jekyll becomes a
hideous fiend known as Mr. Hyde. These reader-favorite tiles are
now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support,
including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core
expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and dynamic
new covers."
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel
about family, romance, and first love. Fifteen-year-old Morgan has
a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where
she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad
divorced mother, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her
great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all.
Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of
secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then
one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named
Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island
doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of
her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they're
each trying to hide will find its way to the surface...whether
Morgan is ready or not. A gorgeous coming of age story in graphic
novel form, celebrating what it means to be different Molly Knox
Ostertag was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in 2020 Stunning full
colour illustrations throughout
Plastic is everywhere... even in our oceans! But how did it get
there, and why does it matter? In this non-fiction graphic novel,
Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists are on a mission to
find out. Using their superpowers and super-smarts, the team will
break down this complex environmental issue into an exciting,
fact-filled adventure so young readers can learn about the causes
and effects of plastic pollution and discover steps we can all take
to clean up Earth's waters.
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