Download or read book Quicklet on Yann Martel s Life Of Pi written by Zakia Uddin and published by Hyperink Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK Author Yann Martel conceived of the story Life of Pi (2002) during his extended travels in India, reading castaway stories and survival tales. Life of Pi is a fantastical chronicle of the adventures of a young boy and his animal companions lost at sea. It has had a tumultuous journey since its arrival in print. The work features a discourse exploring survival, order, danger, chaos and captivity. Yann Martel was born to French-Canadian parents in Spain. Before Life of Pi, he wrote two novels that were not well-received. With the almost instantaneous popularity of Life of Pi, Martel became a lively and outspoken figure and went on to write two more novels of note. According to Martel's talk with the Big Think, "When you have faith in anything it's just a disposition to be open and to trust and to move forward that way. And I find a view of life that entertains a transcendental that engages with the transcendental makes things wealthy. It also it makes things wealthier in their significance and it also it's a way that makes suffering more bearable". MEET THE AUTHOR Zak Ahmed Uddin is a London-based writer who has written about the arts and fashion for both web and print.

Download or read book Life of Pi by Yann Martel written by Kevin Brophy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Runaway Hug written by Nick Bland and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mommy," said Lucy. "Can I have a hug before I go to bed?" When Mommy jokes that she only has one hug left, Lucy decides she must keep Mommy's last hug safe. As Lucy shares the hug with everyone in her large and loving family, she is always careful to get it back . . . until the canine member of the family refuses to play along! Highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling picture-book creators Nick Bland and Freya Blackwood collaborate for the first time on this charming story, which celebrates the imaginative powers of children and the extraordinary love to be found in ordinary bedtime routines.

Download or read book That Dolphin Thing written by Ian Bone and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2001-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was my first mother-hug since I wore shorts and sandals. My shoulder was wet, my mum was sobbing and my brain was in terminal panic! This whole dolphin thing was meant to be a joke, for crying out loud! Now it was a nightmare of biblical proportions.That Dolphin Thing is the hilarious story of one boy's navigation through the treacherous waters of adolescence. Will he make it? Or will he sink under the weight of his Professor-of-Jokes mother's illness, a girl called Killer, his neurotic siblings, and a very big fear of the sea?

Download or read book Grimsdon written by Deborah Abela and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Deborah Abela brings us a heroine to love and a great deal of danger to overcome in this thrilling novel set in a post-apocalyptic, flooded world. Grimsdon is in ruins. Three years ago a massive wave broke its barriers and the sea flooded this grand city. Most were saved, some were lost - and some were left behind. Isabella Charm and her best friend, Griffin, live with three other children in the top of an opulent mansion. They've survived with the help of Griffin's brilliant inventions, Isabella's fighting skills and their vow to look after each other. But what will happen when a newcomer arrives in his flying machine? Grimsdon is full of hidden perils, from bounty hunters to sneaker waves. Could Xavier's daredevil risks put all their lives in danger?

Download or read book Lily and Me written by Moses Aaron and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the friendship between Moses the storyteller, and Lily, a young girl with leukemia.

Download or read book Idjhil written by and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From earliest childhood Idjhil knew that he was destined to be a leader of his people. As his father and grandfather taught him traditional hunting skills, he savored the joys and challenges of living a Nyungar way of life in the bush that was his home. Secure and content, Idjhil was unaware that his life was about to change forever. Idjhil is the moving story of a Western Australian Aboriginal boy who, at the age of nine, is taken from his family in accordance with the official government policy of the time. Although written as fiction, it is based on the memories and experiences of people still alive today. It won a Western Australian Premier's Book Award in 1996.

Download or read book New City written by Deborah Abela and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new city offers a new life - but what kind of life will Isabella and her friends find? Isabella and her friends are nervous about what they'll find in the New City. It's inland and it's dry - far from the flooded city they've just left. Will their lives here be as luxurious and carefree as Xavier says? In fact, bleak, uncertain times have brought darkness and danger to New City. The city has been divided in two- the citizens who have, and those who the ruling Major General says have come to steal from them - the refugees who have fled the rising waters, who are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of the city. The kids of Grimsdon once faced sea monsters and evil harbour lords, but now they face new threats. From freakish weather events that whip up with little warning to the fierce misinformation that swirls around the city to the theft of their freedom, now they face the prison-like restrictions and control of the New City. Unlike the refugees, they're heralded as heroes. But what does the Major General really want from them?

Download or read book The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee written by Deborah Abela and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming story about a girl who's afraid to follow her dreams, and the family who help make them happen. India Wimple can spell. Brilliantly. Every Friday night, she and her family watch the Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee on TV. When the Wimples suggest she enter the next Bee, India feels nothing but trepidation. She's sure she's not good enough but with the support of her family, India finds the courage to sign up. There are plenty of obstacles to reaching the finals, like Summer Millicent Ernestine Beauregard-Champion, a spoiled rich girl who isn't afraid to step on anyone who gets in her way of winning. The whole thing seems rather calamitous to India. But with hope, hard work, and a little bit of heart, something splendiferous might be on the horizon...

Download or read book Noah s Law written by Randa Abdel-Fattah and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Noah is a troublemaker. His father is a hotshot barrister. This is not a good combination. When Noah gets caught mucking up at school, his dad sends him to work at his aunt's law firm during the holidays to 'learn responsibility' and 'fix his attitude'. There he meets Jacinta - the cute intern who knows her way around a photocopier, and Casey - the wicked witch of the firm. Noah becomes involved in a case where a woman has been killed during a mugging gone wrong. There's a grieving husband, a guilty employer, and an open and shut case involving lots of money. But right and wrong, and crime and punishment are soon entangled as Noah realises that things are seldom what they seem.

Download or read book What a Joke Collection written by Phillip Adams and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a Joke! Collection is bursting with snorts and giggles and hoots of laughter. This book contains every joke from What a Joke!, What a Giggle! and What a Laugh! - OVER ONE THOUSAND side-splitting jokes collected from kids themselves.

Download or read book The Fall written by Tristan Bancks and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the night, Sam is woken by angry voices from the apartment above. He goes to the window to see what's happening - only to hear a struggle, and see a body fall from the sixth-floor balcony. Pushed, Sam thinks. Sam goes to wake his father, Harry, a crime reporter, but Harry is gone. And when Sam goes downstairs, the body is gone, too. But someone has seen Sam, and knows what he's witnessed. The next twenty-four hours could be his last.

Download or read book Millicent written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of the classic Australian picture book by Jeannie Baker about an old lady who feeds the pigeons in Hyde Park. Millicent is a gentle story about an old lady's daily wanderings through Hyde Park to feed the pigeons. She never stops to speak to anyone except the birds, who fly towards her when she arrives. Along the way, we hear Millicent's thoughts and feelings towards the pigeons that she so dearly loves and cares for. Her dream is to find enough feathers on the ground to make a coat, hat, bag and shoes so she will be warm and cosy, 'just like a pigeon.' Millicent features Jeannie Baker's intricately detailed collages which capture a particular Australian atmosphere and place in time.

Download or read book The Duck Catcher written by Moses Aaron and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gombei the duck catcher goes out each day to catch a duck for his family's dinner. He does this by tying a loop into the end of a rope. When the duck steps into it, Gombei pulls it tight and the duck is caught. His friends ridicule him. They tell him that his father and grandfather used to catch many more ducks each day than just one, but Gombei tells them they had bigger families with more mouths to feed. But when it snows one morning, Gombei realises that he can save himself having to go out in bad weather by catching a hundred ducks! So he makes a hundred rope traps, a hundred ducks walk into them and Gombei is very pleased with himself. Until a noise frightens the ducks and they all take flight - with Gombei still holding onto the ropes! High up in the air he lets go and as he falls something strange happens: Gombei grows a beak, feathers and wings. He lands back on the ground as a duck - and when a hunter traps him, Gombei yells out to tell him that he is not a duck - he's a man. The hunter thinks hes hearing things and bolts away in fright. And Gombei is free. As he finds himself turning back into a man, he resolves never to catch ducks for food again.

Download or read book Meet Ned Kelly written by Janeen Brian and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture books series about the extraordinary men and women who shaped Australia's history, beginning with our most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly was a notorious bushranger. He lived in Australia's earliest days. He was daring and clever and bold. In a suit made of iron he battled police. And his story is still being told. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary Mackillop; Captain Cook to Douglas Mawson, the Meet... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who shaped Australian history.

Download or read book When Henry Caught Imaginitis written by Nick Bland and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry is a very serious boy. His room is always neat, and he always buttons his shirt right to the top. But lately Henry has been having thoughts that don't make any sense, thoughts about pirates, dragons and rocket ships. Henry has caught imaginitis - and the only cure is to grow up. But what should Henry do in the meantime?

Download or read book Hold on Tight written by Sara Acton and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hold on tight to my hand today. You wouldn't want to blow away. Would you? A young girl and her teddy get swept up in a story of imagination and adventure. A whimsical autumn story from author and award-winning illustrator Sara Acton.