Meet Ottoline and her hairy, helpful friend Mr Munroe. Nosecret is ever too scary for the two of them to discover together.Ottoline is off to the Alice B. Smith School for the DifferentlyGifted. She is rather worried that she doesn't have a special gift.Mr Munroe is worried about the ghost who is said to haunt theschool halls at night. Does Ottoline discover how to be differentand can they expose the spook?
This work introduces Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve ...Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr Munroe. Together they look after the Brown family's eclectic collections - and dabble in a spot of detective work. So they are the first to the scene of the crime when a string of high society dog-nappings and jewel thefts hits Big City. Ottoline (who luckily has a diploma from the Who-R-U Academy of Disguise) and Mr Munroe go undercover - and expose an ingenious scam masterminded by furry feline crook, the Yellow Cat. This is a quirky mystery - adventure which is perfectly packaged and highly collectable.
“对动物的热爱、绘画的乐趣、讲故事的能力，都是来源于我的父亲。” 《植物和老虎》是《好饿的毛毛虫》作者艾瑞克·卡尔献给父亲的短篇故事合集，灵感源于作者的个人经历，从战争阴影下的德国童年，到现如今在美国的工作生活。 卡尔在本书里写到了他的奶奶和一只他也分不清公母的鸡；他的表弟和一只喜欢猫的乌龟；他的朋友和一只被绑架的黑猫；他的叔叔和被驯服的乌鸦等等。 “所有这些故事都有三个共同点：动物和昆虫、家人和朋友还有我自己。” 整本书充满了诗情、创意以及作者对身边人的爱。 For more than 25years Eric Carle's crickets, spiders, and caterpillars havedelighted young readers across the world. Now for the first timethe creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar gives readers a peekinto his own, real-life universe of animals and insects, andfamily, as he tells the stories of his life
