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The Sun Gnomes
(Hardcover)
Hayley Nystrom; Illustrated by Alexandra Bulankina
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R620
Discovery Miles 6 200
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The third and final book in Cornelia Funke's internationally
celebrated trilogy - magical, thrilling and mesmerising. 'I don't
think I've ever read anything that conveys so well the joys,
terrors and pitfalls of reading' Diana Wynne Jones on Inkheart Life
in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary
events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew
Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages. With Dustfinger
dead, and the evil Adderhead now in control, the story in which
they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, left
alone in the real world, believes her family to be lost - lost
between the covers of a book. But as winter comes on there is
reason to hope - if only Meggie and Mo can rewrite the wrongs of
the past and make a dangerous pact with death ... A thrilling and
magical series about stories and the imagination they inspire Book
1, Inkheart, is now a major movie starring Andy Serkis, Paul
Bettany and Brendan Fraser! Cornelia Funke is the
critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of Dragon
Rider and The Thief Lord
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The Marvelous Maze
(Hardcover)
Maxine Rose Schur; Illustrated by Robin DeWitt, Patricia Grush-DeWitt
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R710
Discovery Miles 7 100
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At the edge of the woods, there is a great tree. Peep through the
branches and you might just see some little people who stand as
tall as your thumb and have heads the size of hazelnuts. Sylvia
prefers to be alone rather than play noisy games with the other
Tree Keepers. But one day, she finds a baby bird in her favourite
hiding place. As Sylvia and the bird become friends, can she learn
that sometimes, things are better when you have someone to share
them with? This beautiful debut is a tribute to community and
friendship. Sunday Times Children's Book to Watch Out for - This
charming debut picture book is about tiny people who live in trees,
a baby starling and the joys of nature and of making friends. It is
illustrated with a naivety that is both elegant and child-friendly.
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Stronger than lion
(Paperback)
Sindiwe Magona; Illustrated by Nicole Blomkamp
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R124
Discovery Miles 1 240
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Greenman
(Hardcover)
Lloyd S. Wagner
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R553
R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
Save R41 (7%)
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Greenman-a face peering out of the leaves, the Celtic god of the
woods and a figure familiar to us all. Some say he can still be
found deep in the English woods.
In the second Oliver Family Adventure, "Greenman," Tyler, Paige
and Tommy travel to England and learn about practical jokes, Celtic
culture, alternative religions, and why the English drive on the
other side of the road, all while immersed in another exciting
adventure
Arriving in Sutton Benger, England-a little village with a lot
of history-the Oliver's see a man in green get thrown off a bridge.
They soon meet Liam, their amiable host and deacon at the village
church, his niece Cerri, a spirited girl with a few stories to
tell, and encounter Edwin Bell, a mysterious man who lives in the
woods. Add Greenman, the timeless Celtic icon, and talk of magic in
the woods and soon young imaginations run wild with fears that may,
or may not, be real.
When a practical joke leads to unforeseen peril the children are
forced to face their fears. In the end they realize that
understanding a person's beliefs is the key to seeing those things
that make us the same, rather than those that make us
different.
Hope Havergale first meets the mysterious teenager Christian
Livingston on her seventh birthday when he saves her from
plummeting into a cradle of water inside a forbidden forest. As he
licks fresh blood droplets from her injured wrist, Hope is
spellbound. Seemingly powerless to his charms, Hope has no idea
that it will be her destiny to embark on a breathtaking, perilous
adventure with this two-hundred year-old vampire.
As Hope grows up and inherits an old house in the Florida Keys
from her estranged grandmother, she secretly pines for
Christian-the man who haunts her dreams. While yearning for his
good looks and succulent tin-cinnamon scent, Hope is clueless that
it is Christian who fell in love with her when she was just seven.
Worse yet, Hope doesn't realize the truth about her own veiled
past-that even she isn't fully human. When Christian reappears one
day, she falls hard, rousing the monster within her. Somewhere
between skin and ink and blood and love, a sinful self-discovery
awaits Hope as she becomes entangled in a conflict between
civilized and savage vampires.
In this seductive tale, bloodlust quickly turns to bloodshed
when the arrival of a new danger threatens to destroy both their
secret love and surreptitious existence.
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy
novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time
including C. S. Lewis, who wrote "Picking up a copy of Phantastes
one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours
later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K.
Chesterton said that The Princess and the Goblin was a book that
had "made a difference to my whole existence." His three fantasy
novels for children are available here in one volume. They are so
strange and dreamlike that adults often enjoy them as much as the
children. MacDonald says "For my part, I do not write for children,
but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
So whether you are young or just young at heart this is a book that
will enthral you with its displays of courage and loyalty, and with
the allegories between the fantastic world painted and the
spiritual world MacDonald perceives.
It's the smelliest winter Brit can remember - the heating is
broken, and the toilets have frozen solid! Will Brit have to crawl
into the icy, pongy sewer, or can his BIG new friend help him fix
the heating system in time?
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