Download or read book A Chicken in the Wind and How He Grew written by Frank South and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank South's memoir of seven tumultuous years in his family's life is far from a parenting advice or a self-help book. These honest, heartbreaking and hilarious stories are about doing your best against the impossible odds that being human lays out for all of us. Even when we have absolutely no clue what that could be.
Download or read book Charlie Turns Into a T Rex written by Sam Copeland and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Waterstones Paperback of the Year! What happens when you feel stressed? Maybe you start sweating, or your heart beats faster. When Charlie McGuffin gets stressed, something a little bit different happens: he turns into an animal! Unfortunately, things are getting quite stressful for Charlie: - His dad's business is in real trouble - He might have to move in with his Aunt Brenda and her seventeen cats (and wooden leg) - And it's getting harder and harder to control his powers Luckily, Charlie's best friends Flora, Wogan and Mohsen are on hand to help. If they can break into the fortress-like offices of Van Der Gruyne Industries and recover the McGuffins' stolen gold, maybe Charlie won't have to move away after all. Can Charlie's friends help him master his powers once and for all, or will he end up stuck as a pigeon forever? Praise for Charlie Changes into a Chicken: 'This is a really funny book!' Alice, age 8 'My body couldn't help but shake with laughter' Maren, age 10 'Belly-busting hilarity' The Guardian 'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Mail on Sunday 'The modern masterpiece . . . this savvy, comic tale ticks every box' The Daily Telegraph 'Cleverly daft storytelling at its very, very best' Maz Evans, author of Who Let The Gods Out? 'The best kind of silly' The Observer 'Full of heart and humour, wit and wisdom' Sophie Anderson, author of The House with Chicken Legs 'Wonderfully heart-warming and absolutely hilarious' Catherine Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island Charlie Changes into a Chicken has been: Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize! Longlisted for the Brandford Boase Award! Longlisted for the Blue Peter Award! The Guardian and The Telegraph's Book of the Year!
Download or read book Grandpa s Stories written by Ronald (Ronn) L. Shank and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of years ago now as one of my grandsons first birthday approached I thought about what to give a one year old. There are a million things that will be played with for a short while then either broken or ignored. I wanted to give something special, something lasting, something that even when older he might still enjoy. Then it struck me, since he likes the silly little stories I tell him upon his request, that maybe I could write some cute little short stories, with a moral as well, just for him (and any of my other grandchildren as well when shared). Thats all it took to get me started. Since then each year I write a little story that somehow relates to something in his life. When another grandchild came along he also was added to the list of recipients of original stories. When I got to thinking about it I decided there may be other grandparents that would like to spend time with their grandchild reading a little story. Now a few years down the pike and I have enough for a book. And so herein I offer my readers a chance to share the joy of time spent reading to a child. That is why my stories were written in the first place. Children go through phases as with my grandchildren there were the dinosaurs, whales, (especially the blue whale), hedge hogs, puppies and gold fish. Im sure you get my drift. All of these fed my imagination and help to produce stories that have a connection and personal touch for both the child and me. These stories are not written for children to read, but rather for a loving adult to sit down with child on their lap or side by side on a shared sofa and be read to. I recommend using funny voices and lots of emphasis and maybe a tickle or two at just the right moment to add flavor and a garnish to each story. The giggles, like sparklers on the 4th of July, will shower joy in all directions and warm the heart of the one reading the story and those close by. Do not be concerned about the content all the stories contained in this book are rated PG - (to be read by Parent or Grandparent). I hope you will enjoy these short stories even more that I did writing them.
Download or read book A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange, wondrous things happen in these two short stories, which are both the perfect introduction to Gabriel García Márquez, and a wonderful read for anyone who loves the magic and marvels of his novels.After days of rain, a couple find an old man with huge wings in their courtyard in 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' - but is he an angel? Accompanying 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is the short story 'The Sea of Lost Time', in which a seaside town is brought back to life by a curious smell of roses.
Download or read book The Fourth Door written by Virginia King and published by Celestial Hedgehog. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, a baby boy was kidnapped ... When Selkie Moon travels to Hong Kong to discover his fate, she has high hopes of using her psychic twinges to find him and reunite him with his father. Until the tea leaves on her flight make a chilling prediction. Then in a Kowloon night-market, Selkie witnesses a child abduction – and the echoes with her quest suddenly raise the stakes. As the strange events escalate and reach back into Chinese folklore, Selkie is forced to confront the powerful force that's hell-bent on stopping her. The omens are unmistakeable. Someone is going to die. Someone closest to her? Or Selkie herself? If you love intricate puzzles with a woman under pressure and a touch of magic realism, then you'll adore The Fourth Door. Get it now.
Download or read book In a Dark Wood written by Amanda Craig and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine, divorced, jobless: Benedick Hunter is going nowhere, heading in the exact opposite direction he expected. So when he comes across a children's book that his mother, Laura, wrote, he decides that her life and work - haunting stories replete with sinister woods, wicked witches and brave girls who battle giants - hold the key to finding out why his own life is such a mess. Setting out to discover why Laura killed herself when he was six, Benedick travels to the US. As he grows more obsessed with what happened to his mother, Benedick enters into a dark wood - one that is both hilariously real and terrifyingly psychological. Dark humorous and inventive, In a Dark Wood casts light on the nature of depression, genius and of the healing power of storytelling.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years written by Carl Sandburg and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1926 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jack and the Starship Simocom written by and published by The Jack Series. This book was released on with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Regular Guy written by Mona Simpson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define--she brilliantly extends her achievement. More powerfully than ever before, Simpson uncovers the nature of longing and belonging, of blood relations and the human heart.
Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by Louisa Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jane Hicks Gentry written by Betty N. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.
Download or read book Knights of the Sky written by Randell Whaley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our hero is an experienced test pilot at the start of World War I. As soon as the US enters the war, he joins the US Army and goes to flight training. After flight training, he is assigned to an air base in France. Then he has to meet the German fighter pilots daily in dogfights over Germany. He also escorts bombers on bombing missions. He also fights the Red Baron! He is shot down behind enemy lines, and traveling by night and sleeping by day makes it back to his own lines! This book is loaded with action! He also has a sweetheart in England who is eagerly awaiting the end of the war.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
