For the first time in the history of the Little House books,this new edition features Garth Williams' interior art in vibrant,full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as theymove from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to thewilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on thenew railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect fortheir new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she,her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on theshores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors'house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be abrand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. TheIngallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except he lives in a sprawlinggraveyard and has been raised since infancy by ghosts and aguardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor thedead. There are adventures in a graveyard for a boy—an ancientIndigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, and thestrange and terrible Sleer. There are dangers though too, and ifBod leaves the graveyard, he may fall prey to the man Jack, who hasalready murdered Bod’s entire family. Effortlessly inventive,chilling, and magical, Neil Gaiman’s Newbery winning andbestselling Graveyard Book is an a classic in the making.Illustrated by frequent Gaiman collaborator and acclaimed artistDave McKean, The Graveyard Book is enriched by beautifulblack-and-white line drawings throughout. The paperback editionfeatures a robust Extras section including the author’s NewberyMedal acceptance speech, additional art by Dave McKean, and NeilGaiman’s answers to readers’ ques
Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-millones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make anoccasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especiallyinteresting has happened to the twins until they accidentallyinterrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They findthemselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns,they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammothsand manticores will find them. The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis,but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boyis quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whosepopulations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts,perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans whoconsider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more todo in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have toreunite an estranged father and son, but it wo
