Tuck Everlasting 内容简介 Doomed to or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune." 作者简介 A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt is the award-winning author of the modern classic "Tuck Everlasting," "The Eyes of the Amaryllis," "Kneeknock Rise" and many other brilliantly original books for young people. She began her career in 1966 as the illustrator of "The Forty-ninth Magician," a collaboration with her husband. When her husband became a college president and no longer had time to collaborate, Babbitt tried her hand at writing. Her first novel, "The Search for Delicious," establish

This is a book about 'real witches' - the ones that absolutely loathe children and are always plotting to get rid of them. It features a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

This wonderful collection is divided into four themed sections - Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and, Matters of Importance. Illustrated in full colour by Dahl's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake, as well as other leading artists (Raymond Briggs, Babette Cole and Ralph Steadman), this treasure trove of extracts, poems, letters and memoirs introduces some of Dahl's best-loved characters from Willy Wonka to the BFG, from the Witches to the Twits. 'Those who don't believe in magic will never find it', Roald Dahl told his readers. Every page of this stunning gift book contains a touch of magic and will delight existing fans as well as those who have yet to discover Dahl's genius.

hunting is just 'plain fun .To the girl who lives next door,it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talkthem out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day theGreggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger onthem. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Fingertakes over. She really can't control it,and now it's turned theGreggs into birds!Before they know it, the Greggs are living in anest, and that's just the beginning of their problems

出版社: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint (2014年6月3日) 丛书名: Land of Stories 平装: 544页 读者对象: 8 - 12 岁 语种： 英语 商品尺寸: 13.3 x 3.8 x 19.7 cm 商品重量: 431 g

Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school’srunning team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced toface the hardest race of her life—the race against time.