YOU can forget about a whizz—bang social life if，like Ellie Morgan，your greatest ambition is to grow a world class giant pumpkin。 Ellie has just forty—six days to boost her Big Max to legendary proportions and beat the reigning champion，the despicable Cyril Pool，in the Rock River Pumpkin Weigh—in。She needs all her courage and ingenuity to battle against rain，frost，bugs，fungus and pumpkin thieves—espe—cially when helping her to protect Big Max seems to have knocked out Wes，the new boy in town，just when Ellie needs him most。
Mommy Bear konws exactly how to get sleepy Teddy Bear out of bed in the mornings!
How will hungry Teddy Bear fill the time between lunch and dimmer?
We are in tbe lnidst of an energy crisis. We're running out of heating oil and gasoline, tearing up our wilderness with hydro dams and damaging our heahh with nuclear power.And out production of energy may be the biggest cause of pollution in the world today. In The Heat Is On you'll find out where our energy comes from and why it is creating a problem. But you'll also discover that there are bright spots from the many plans to develop alternative clean energy sources, to the many ways we can all help, by using energy more thoughtfully and efficiently.
In this lively book, The Missing Cat, you will meet six-year-old Nicholas and his family, hot on the trail of Princess, the beloved family cat, who has disappeared from her basket. As you read, you'll begin to learn Italian, including basic words and phrases, greeting words, numbers, days of the week, colors, foods, and more. Read to find out the happy surprise in store for Nicholas and his family. See how much fun learning a new language can be!
Admirable Karia is very excited a bout the Beautiful Lock Competition.With some good iedas from Josh, Fiona and Ravi Make everything at Lock Cottage shipshape, but just before the judeg arrives, Ravi spots a problem.
Young children will love finding and naming the everyday things in this colorful"first words"book.The bright and bold photographs introduce more than 50common words used by young children.
Young children will love finding and naming the everyday things in this colorful"first words"book.The bright and bold photographs introduce more than 50common words used by young children.
Simon and Malcolm think that their stay with Great Uncle Henry in Edinburgh is going to be incredibly boring. But then they discover the Martlet Box! With this discovery the two boys and their friend Robina are caught up in a battle between forces more fantastic and powerful than they could ever have imagined. The contents of the Martlet Box are the key to the battle. The children have it at the moment but others more powerful will go to any lengths to get hold of it. Withthe helpoftheimmortalMrs Clarke and the strange knights the three friends manage to keep the contents for a time. But when Robina is kidnapped they must go back to the past to rescue her and in doing so must make the most terrible decision of their lives . . .
Teddy Bear wakes up one morning covered in red spots !
First published nearly 40 years ago, Zolotow's ingenuous paean to spring, a time "when everything lovely begins once again," indeed feels reborn with Craig's (Angelina Ballerina) winsome illustrations. Combining full-page spreads with smaller panels and spots, her ink, watercolor and colored-pencil art draws from a sumptuous palette of Easter egg colors that reaches full bloom at tale's end, when spring finally catches up to the lonely bunny in search of companionship. When a sleepy owl tells the solo bunny that "there are always rabbits at Easter," he attempts to hunt the place down. Youngsters will be tickled by this misunderstanding and will enjoy having a leg up on the long-eared fellow. Equally gratifying are Craig's renderings of the antics of a diminutive mouse who trails and apes the wandering bunny. In the spirit of a true quest, both travelers are rewarded for their journey: each ends up with a loving mate?and seven offspring. Snuggling with his brood, "The bunny's heart throbbed with happiness at t
TITLE:Winnie the Phooh Heffalump Movie DESCRIPTION:Pooh's Heffalump is the first character to be introduced to the Winnie the Pooh original cast of characters.
After greatpain, a formal feeling comes... Anne turned to the mirror: Your mother has been dead for over a year,' she said to her reflection. "Your father has remarried.' But the words had no reality. Like a year ago, when she had slowly, deliberately told her reflection her mother had died., the reflection had remained impassive, refusing to hear It lay beneath the surface of the cold glass, untouched and untouchable as a brown leaf frozen beneath the ice of a lake m winter Would it ever shatter?
Apple Harvest; During the Montg of September,the appces should bd coullted in baskets and stored in the barn.
The Hardacres are thrilled with their new home,Hardacre Farm,but when they find Old Uncle Jake's Farming Diary they realise that they are going to be kept very busy indeed!
Young children will love finding and naming the everyday things in this colorful"first words"book.The bright and bold photographs introbuce more than 50common words used by young children.
The reader's decisions control the search for treasure on a Greek island and a battle with an unscrupulous character seeking the same treasure.
Well. all you need are ordinary materia s like vegetabies, tinfoil, paper doilies, even your own fingers to make all kinds of arrlazing things -- without too much mess. Follow Steve and Megumi's step-.by-step instructions and clear diagrams and you can make all kinds of professional designs - to hang on your wal! or to giwe to your fdends.
Robbie's most special friend is his grandfather, who teaches him all he knows of the countryside and the old country ways. But signs of the modem world are all around--the first television has appeared in the village, and Hawker Hunters scream through the air. However, it is the old man and the boy who come to the rescue when modem technology fails. Time, though, cannot stand still, and even after the death of his beloved grandfather, life must go on. With the coming of summer, Robbie's wicked escapades with the wild tinker boy strengthen a friendship that fills the void left by the old man's passing.
We are in tbe lnidst of an energy crisis. We're running out of heating oil and gasoline, tearing up our wilderness with hydro dams and damaging our heahh with nuclear power. And out production of energy may be the biggest cause of pollution in the world today. In The Heat Is On you'll find out where our energy comes from and why it is creating a problem. But you'll also discover that there are bright spots from the many plans to develop alternative clean energy sources, to the many ways we can all help, by using energy more thoughtfully and efficiently.
The pet store near Cindy's house had been called The Catfish Palace for as long as anyone could remember.The cages were clean,the water was fresh and the young budgies chattered happily on their perches. There were also pelnty of small aquarium fish,but the catfish for which the store was named was mot small.He was large and flat and round and sat at the bottom of his tank all day.Day after day.The tank had been built especially for him with tall cement walls,but is was not really large enough for a fish his size.
The year is 1943. Wartime. Murdo is suspicious of the whisky smuggling he is involved in with Hector, an old rogue of a fisherman. Then one night he discovers the contents of the crates and his suspicions are confirmed! Suddenly Murdo is plunged headlong into a deep and dangerous adventure of national proportions. In a deadly hunt across Scotland's harshest terrain in the depths of winter, Murdo's strength is tested to the limit. Can he outwit the enemy before Operation Flood-Tide is set in motion? Murdo's War is an exciting story of guns, boat and car chases, evasion and mountain pursuit. Most of all it is about one boy's resourcefulness and determination...to survive!
