It's 1945. World War II has just ended and twelve-year-old Rusty comes back home to Britain after being evacuated to the US. The greyness and bleakness of life in England is a shock, but even worse is adapting to the strict discipline of her family, including a brother she's never met, after the warmth and openness of her adopted American family. Rusty is sent to an horrific boarding school, before finally running away as her search for happiness becomes more and more desperate.

0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" A single person—but with twopersonalities: one that’s noble and kind and another that’s pure,repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson’s engrossing masterpieceabout the dual nature of man—and a good doctor whose thirst forknowledge has tragic consequences—serves up all the suspense andsatisfying chills one expects from the best horror and sciencefiction.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves , Aladdin , Sinbad the Sailor : these are just some of the strange andamazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate herhusband, King Shahryar…and to save her own life. Each one is morefantastic than the last, filled with demons and dervishes, caliphsand genies, men transformed into dogs and monsters with eyes thatglow. Like the king, children will find themselves enchanted byevery tale.

“Once you start looking for the happy things, you don’t thinkabout the bad ones as much.” That’s the joyful way Pollyanna seesthe world: no matter what happens, she plays her “Just Be Glad”game and finds the sunny side of any situation. But when she’sorphaned and forced to live with her rigid Aunt Polly, willhigh-spirited Pollyanna succeed in melting her Aunt’s coldheart?

So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own. 一对带发条的玩具老鼠父子的故事， 玩具店里有一对玩具是善良的老鼠父子，他们手连着手，靠身后的发条行走，又不小心掉进了垃圾桶，然后流落到了森林，他们在森林里遇到了许多小动物，还有一帮专拣人们丢弃的旧玩具来干活的坏老鼠们...此故事曾被改编成电影，国内观众早观看的动画片版是在动画综艺节目《三百六十五个夜》，台译《老鼠父子历险记》。

This work features a secret store of stolen silver, asurprising view through a telescope, a shrill scream on a nightout, a disappearing cash box and a dangerous accident and a trapfor the Secret Seven! This collection includes the following shortstories: "The Secret of Old Mill"; "The Humbug Adventure";"Adventure On The Way Home"; "An Afternoon with The Secret Seven";"Where are The Secret Seven?" and "Hurry, Secret Seven, Hurry!"

Roald Dahl's inimitable style and humor shine in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. From Stingaling the scorpion to Crocky-Wock the crocodile, Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unmentionable plan to save his own bacon and an anteater with an unusually large appetite are among the characters created by Dahl in these timeless rhymes. This new, larger edition is perfect for reading aloud and makes Quentin Blake's celebrated illustrations even more enjoyable.