不爱学习、功课不好的小辉哥哥入选职棒联盟享受千万年薪!听到这个消息,三个小学五年级的优等生一下子觉得刻苦读书太没意思了。他们想出了一个歪主意──替别人写作,这样马上就可以赚到钱了。于是他们叫上几个好朋友成立了“课外作业代写公司”,做起不正当的“生意”来。于是大家认真研究起老师留的作业,他们没想到的是,这份“工作”让他们更主动学习,不再为作业愁眉苦脸,学会了独立思考、勇敢提出自己的见解。“课外作业代写公司”没多久就被同学检举,解散了。不过,他们却得到一个重要的启示,那就是:过去他们只会死读书而不会思考问题。 ??日本文学家古田足日在书中带领读者一起思考、想象“?过去、现在、未来”,并且提出“什么是野蛮,什么是文明”的讨论,让读者了解,面对这个世界的迅速改变,到底该如何读书才能对自己
每件事情都有既定的规则,世上万物也皆有固定的模式。唯独“想象力”,可以无拘无束、天马行空!一个小男孩在美国的帝国大厦上与一朵小白云偶遇,小男孩坐在云上,穿过云山雾海,赫然发现一座天空之城城上插满了巨大的喇叭,有无数朵白云从里面飘出来。原来这里是神秘的7号梦工厂……小男孩意外地为自己开启了一段惊奇的旅程!也让觉得有志难伸的云朵们,得以幻化成无法想象的精彩杰作!当然,也带给城市的人们一份难以言喻的惊喜礼物!大卫·威斯纳,就是一位用“想象力”带给人们欢乐的插画家!他的图画,完全不需文字辅助,自然就有一股强大的张力与磁力,紧紧地吸引住读者的双眼!他无愧于“无字图画书”领域的“王者至尊”!
HOW DO PENGUINS survive in frigid conditions? What happens at a research station in Antarctica? How long can an emperor penguin go without food? What other creatures live in the Antarctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the Magic Tree House Research Guide: Penguins and Antarctica.
What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this Magic Tree House Research Guide: Pilgrims. Includes fun facts from Jack and Annie, fantastic photos and illustrations, and a guide to doing further research.
Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the magic tree house on another magical and historical adventure. Their mission: discover one of the four secrets of happiness. Their journey: to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo), in ancient Japan in the 1600s. Their tools: a research book to guide them and a magic wand with three special rules. In Dragon of the Red Dawn, Mary Pope Osborne transports readers back to the splendor, rich culture, and magic of traditional Japan. From the Hardcover edition.
Jack and Annie travel back in time to a South American rain forest in search of the elusive magician Morgan le Fay. Will they find a new clue to her whereabouts before they are trampled by stampeding killer ants?
Jack and Annie are whisked all the way back to the Ice Age in this compelling Magic Tree House time-travel adventure where they meet woolly mammoths, cave people...and fierce sabertooth tigers!
What was it like to wear armor? What was the food like in castles? This book explores what life was really like in medieval times.
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at thecold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home willnever be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. Inher relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropicalbird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that isnow caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completelyfree is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the oldQuaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion,her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with theandquot; witchandquot; is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion,fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft
Who invented the word dinosaur? What was the name of the biggest dinosaur? This book includes everything you ever wanted to know about the real-life world of dinosaurs.
Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a hundred years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their way to the 1889 World's Fair. Below the Eiffel Tower, built especially for the fair, there are thousands of exhibits from all over the world. But how will Jack and Annie find the magicians in the crowds of people? And who are the magicians anyway? Jack and Annie are about to find out in another adventure filled with history, magic, and amazing surprises! In Night of the New Magicians, Mary Pope Osborne brings to life an amazing time in history that gave birth to many startling inventions and scientific discoveries that would change the world forever. The paperback edition boasts all-new backmatter full of activities!
Illustrated in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are whisked forty yearsforward in time and land at an international space station on the moon.There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of thefourth object needed to free the enchantress Morgan le Fay from a powerfulspell.