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A brilliant detective story by one of Sweden's top children's
writers and illustrated in full colour throughout. A book to read
alone or aloud! A perfect case for the famous Detective Gordon,
chief of police and chief of detectives in the forest.
Unfortunately, solving this crime means standing in the snow and
waiting for a long time . . . If only he had an assistant - someone
small, fast, and clever.
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Findus and the Fox (Hardcover)
Sven Nordqvist; Illustrated by Sven Nordqvist; Translated by Julia Marshall
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There's a hen-hunting fox on the loose. But farmer Pettson and his
quirky cat Findus agree that foxes shouldn't be killed. They should
be tricked. They come up with a fabulous plan which makes for an
explosive, unforgettable night.
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A Bird Day (Hardcover)
Eva LindstrĂśm; Illustrated by Eva LindstrĂśm; Translated by Julia Marshall
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A funny and whimsical picture book about an ordinary family day,
told through a bird family, from 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award recipient Eva LindstrĂśm. "Wash your beaks, it's time for
lunch--flies again today," says Dad. After lunch the young birds
get sent off to play--they sing, hunt mosquitos, compare leg size,
and poke grubs. This is how birds spend a day. Eva LindstrĂśm
reflects the familiar and the absurd in human behavior through this
funny bird family. We all recognize the family dynamics of
bickering over fried mosquitos and worm pie--only the youngest is
allowed to pick out the worms. Toddlers will recognize key moments
in a perfectly down to earth day--play, mealtimes, stretching
boundaries, and sleep. With dry observations of human family
behavior that adults will enjoy, this is a picture book to make all
the family laugh and to read aloud together. Expressive faces,
hilarious hairstyles, Dad's great cooking, and a sister and
brother's everyday conversation combine in a heartwarming and
completely individual picture book from a unique artist with an
international following. Eva LindstrĂśm was awarded the Astrid
Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022 and has been nominated once for the
Hans Christian Award and eight times for the August Award, which
she won in 2013. She is a major influence on picture and comic book
artists worldwide. Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia
Marshall. Other books from Eva LindstrĂśm My Dog Mouse Everyone
Walks Away Praise for My Dog Mouse "A poignant tale tenderly
executed."--starred, Kirkus Reviews Praise for Everyone Walks Away
"There's not a word, not a detail too many."--August Prize Jury
"Eloquent yet playful with an emotionally charged
message."--Foreword Reviews
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To the Ice (Hardcover)
Thomas Tidholm; Illustrated by Anna Clara Tidholm; Translated by Julia Marshall
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Three children go on a polar expedition in this thrilling adventure
story for newly independent readers that blurs realism and
imagination. Ida, Max, and Jack go to the creek one winter's day.
They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away--all
the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some
sandwiches. "You probably don't think it's true, and we didn't
either, not even while it was happening..." They find an old hut,
meet penguins, see extraordinary things, and, after testing their
resources in this dramatic land of ice and snow, come home safe at
the end of the day. "What shall we say about where we've been?"
asked Max. "Tell the truth," I said. "We don't know." To the Ice is
a beautifully produced chapter book that absorbs young readers in a
real-life make-believe filled with problem-solving and adventure.
This is a thrilling and plot-filled story for budding explorers and
ice adventurers--the kind of book children will remember throughout
their lives. Thomas Tidholm is a Swedish photographer, poet,
playwright, and writer. He and Anna-Clara Tidholm have together
created a string of award-winning books for children since the
early 1980s. Anna-Clara Tidholm is one of Sweden's leading
children's book authors and illustrators with a varied and rich
bibliography. Her prizes include the Elsa Beskow plaque, German
Youth Literature Prize, Astrid Lindgren prize and August prize.
Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall.
Illustrated in full color and packed with character and humor, this
is a new whodunnit mystery in the award-winning Detective Gordon
series, fun to read alone or aloud. A Case with a Bang is the final
book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set
in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair
police--retired-toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse
Buffy--solve the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake. Night
brings a humming, scraping sound in the woods. Someone has wrecked
the badger's trash can. Later, three large creatures are spotted up
on the mountain. Detective Buffy discovers this seemingly small
case really is a dangerous mystery--she comes back from her first
investigation flat as a gingerbread, rolled over by something huge
and terrifying. Back at the station, retired Detective Gordon is
training a new young police assistant, and the cakes have run out
in the forest bakery! While all the animals cower at the police
station, Buffy remembers Gordon's stories about trolls. Is it
possible they do exist? Taking Gordon's advice about how everyone
thinks differently, she finds a way to communicate with the giant
creatures--perhaps not so terrifying after all. The book leaves
readers with a memorable Gordon message: Everyone thinks
differently, strangers are welcome, cakes for everybody! This final
installment in the award-winning Detective Gordon series is a
multi-layered philosophical story about good detective work
involving all, kindness to newcomers and doing the right thing.
Winner of multiple awards and accolades, Detective Gordon is a
mystery series with depth--perfect for reading alone for emerging
readers, wonderful for reading aloud together as a chapter book.
Ulf Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish children's writer, who wrote
more than 100 books for all ages. He is the winner of numerous
awards including the August Prize, the Astrid Lindgren Prize and
the Swedish Academy's Children's Book Prize. His books have been
translated into over a dozen languages and made into feature films,
opera, radio, plays and other forms - even postage stamps. Gitte
Spee is a renowned artist from the academy of fine art and design
in the Netherlands and St Martins School of Art in London. A
leading children's book illustrator, she has also written numerous
books, published and translated around the world. Translated from
the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall. Read all the Detective
Gordon series: Detective Gordon: The First Case Detective Gordon: A
Complicated Case Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case Detective
Gordon: A Case for Buffy Praise for Detective Gordon: A Case with a
Bang "[J]ust as charming, gentle, wry, and entertaining as the rest
of the series and anything that was created by A.A. Milne or
Kenneth Grahame."--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Detective Gordon: The
First Case "KLA-DUNK! Another winner."--starred, Kirkus Reviews "A
must-have for chapter book collections."--starred, School Library
Journal "Full of warm humour and wisdom...with a feather-light
touch."--Best Books of 2015, Horn Book "A wonderful choice for
independent reading."--starred, Booklist
Illustrated in full color and packed with character and humor, this
is the fifth whodunnit mystery in the awardwinning Detective Gordon
series, fun to read alone or aloud. A Case with a Bang is the final
book in the series of funny detective stories for early readers set
in a friendly forest in which two determinedly fair
police-retired-toad Gordon and the indefatigable mouse Buffy-solve
the mystery and stop regularly to eat cake. Night brings a horrible
humming, scraping sound in the forest. Someone has wrecked the
badger's trash can. Later, three large creatures are spotted up on
the mountain. Detective Buffy discovers this seemingly small case
really is a dangerous mystery-she comes back from her first
investigation flat as a gingerbread, rolled over by something huge
and terrifying. Back at the station, retired Detective Gordon is
training a new young police assistant, and the cakes have run out
in the forest bakery! While all the animals cower at the police
station, Buffy remembers Gordon's stories about trolls. Is it
possible they do exist? Taking Gordon's advice about how everyone
thinks differently, she finds a way to communicate with the giant
creatures-perhaps not so terrifying after all. The book leaves
readers with a memorable Gordon message: Everyone thinks
differently, strangers are welcome, cakes for everybody! This final
instalment in the awardwinning Detective Gordon series is a
multi-layered philosophical story about good detective work
involving all, kindness to newcomers and doing the right thing.
Winner of multiple awards and accolades, Detective Gordon is a
mystery series with depth-perfect for reading alone for emerging
readers, wonderful for reading aloud together as a chapter book.
Translated from the Swedish edition by Julia Marshall.
Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt,
who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like
Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now
Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped
her for the horse girls. Eleven-year-old Cricket Karlsson is a warm
and complex character with an artistic soul. This is a liberating
and unexpected story about growing up, fitting in, and sorting out
the adults in our lives that will reach the hearts of young readers
(and older ones).
It's spring and Dani is going to Rome for her father's wedding. But Ella is not invited; Dad said no. What will Ella think when she learns she hasn't been invited to her best friend's dad's wedding?
In this final book in the acclaimed My Happy Life series, the road between Dani and Ella is getting longer and longer. Dani must make sure their story ends happily.
The detective lay in bed with his eyes closed. But he couldn't
sleep. He was thinking. He always thought best in bed. Especially
with his eyes closed. Something is going on in the forest: one of
the animals is saying nasty things about the other forest
creatures. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Who is
the culprit? Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must
investigate! But this is a complicated case. The two police
officers split the workload: Buffy questions the suspects, while
Gordon stays in bed to think. Once the investigation is over,
Detective Gordon plans to go fishing and eat all the cakes he wants
to. And maybe then Buffy will be appointed Police Chief! But that
won't happen unless this case can be solved...
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Hattie (Paperback)
Frida Nilsson; Illustrated by Stina Wirsen; Translated by Julia Marshall
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Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures.
Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab, and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong―like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos.
Hattie is funny, lively and sympathetic chapter book, perfect for reading aloud and for newly independent readers.
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Saladin (Paperback)
Marion Khalidi; Volume editing by Julia Marshall
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Cheng Ho (Paperback)
Julia Marshall; Illustrated by Laura De La Mare
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"The whole world is full of dead things," said Esther. "In every
bush there is a bird, a butterfly, a mouse. Someone must be kind
and look after them. Someone must make a sacrifice and see that all
these things are buried." "Who must?" I asked. "We must," she said.
Esther was very brave. I was little and scared. One summer's day we
started a business called Funerals Ltd., to help all the poor dead
animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems,
and Esther's little brother, Puttie, cried.
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The Stone Giant (Hardcover)
Anna Hoglund; Illustrated by Anna Hoglund; Translated by Julia Marshall
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When her father leaves to save people from a giant who turns them to stone with his gaze, a child in a red dress is left alone. Many days and many nights go by. Every evening the girl says good night to herself in her mirror. When the last light burns down, the girl takes her mirror and a knife and sets out to find her father. I will save my father from the giant, she says.
The Stone Giant is a contemporary and timeless fairytale that tells of a child who succeeds where adults cannot. Based on a classic Swedish fairytale by Elsa Beskow, often called the Beatrix Potter of Scandinavia, whose books have been read by Swedish children for over 100 years.
With lots of examples and color images, this resource is both a
foundational text and a practical guidebook for bringing
contemporary art into elementary and middle school classrooms as a
way to make learning joyful and meaningful for all learners. The
author shows how asking questions and posing problems spark
curiosity and encourage learners to think deeply and make
meaningful connections across the curriculum. At the center of this
approach is creativity, with contemporary visual art as its
inspiration. The text covers methods of creative inquiry-based
learning, art and how it connects to the "big ideas" addressed by
academic domains, flexible structures teachers can use for
curriculum development, creative teaching strategies using
contemporary art, and models of art-based inquiry curriculum. Book
Features: Provides research-based project ideas and curriculum
models for arts integration. Shows how Project Zero's flexible
structures and frameworks can be used to develop creative inquiry
and an arts integration curriculum. Explains how contemporary
visual art connects to the four major disciplines-science,
mathematics, social studies, and language arts. Includes full-color
images of contemporary art that are appropriate for elementary and
middle school learners. Demonstrates how arts integration can and
should be substantive, multi-dimensional, and creative.
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Valdemar's Peas (Paperback)
Maria Joensson; Illustrated by Maria Joensson; Translated by Julia Marshall
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Peas? No way! Valdemar may be a little wolf, but he knows what he
wants. Valdemar swallows his fish fingers-one, two, three. Good!
But then Dad says he has to eat his peas before he can have
chocolate ice cream. Peas are so good for you and give you lovely
long ears! But peas are green and round and pointless, thinks
Valdemar, and he already has long ears. Little sister Lin, on the
other hand, eats pea after pea and soon she has an ice cream in her
hand. Unfair! Until Valdemar gets an idea... He knows how to get
the ice cream without eating even one little pea!
This is an extraordinarily warm and funny book about a big
brother's courage and inventiveness when he discovers his parents
have been run over by a truck - or have they?
Why doesn't Berra have a grandfather? And how can he get one? There
are plenty of old men at the retirement home, Ulf suggests. They go
there together to find one-ideally one who eats pig's trotters,
invites you to tea and can teach you to whistle. Can You Whistle,
Johanna? is an international award-winner and classic in many
countries by one of the world's great writers.
Why doesn't Berra have a grandfather? And how can he get one? Ulf
suggests that there are plenty of old men at the retirement home.
Berra and Ulf go there together to find one--ideally one who eats
pig's trotters, invites you to tea, and can teach you to whistle. A
funny, sensitive, illustrated chapter book about a friendship
across generations. Stark's writing covers every emotion, sometimes
in the same sentence.
Title: Poems. By Julia Anne Marshall.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
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British Library Marshall, Julia; 1832. 2 pt.; 12 . 11642.bb.40.
Title: Poems. By Julia Anne Marshall.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Marshall, Julia; 1832. 2 pt.; 12 . 11642.bb.40.
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poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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