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Come along with Addie for amazing travel and fun Addie likes sharing her adventures with everyone Her cute dog Lexy is always by her side Traveling in a hot-air balloon is the greatest ride... Today's adventure is at a farm on such a sunny day Addie flies over the fields with animals, crops and hay The third in a series of books intended to entertain and educate young children. Addie travels in her hot-air balloon with her cute little...

From the amazing mind of author and illustrator Bill Cotter comes one of this year's best Christmas books for children! Larry the lovable monster from Don't Push the Button! is back for the holidays with another hilarious, interactive adventure in this toddler Christmas book! It's almost Christmas and Santa is coming! You don't want to end up on the naughty list, do you? With no elves in sight, Larry thinks he can get away with some last-minute...

Armed with his wits, his friends, and his Nemotech submarine, a twelve-year-old descendant of Jules Verne's famous antihero must race against the clock to save his kidnapped mother in Quest for the Nautilus: Young Captain Nemo. Gabriel Nemo has never been your normal, everyday twelve-year-old. As a descendant of the famous Captain Nemo, he's determined to use his Nemotech legacy for good. He and his best friends Peter and Misty spend their days...

Baseball aficionado father can not let go of his dream of making it to the major leagues. He tirelessly trains his son, since the day his son was born, to follow his dream to become a baseball player. And why wouldn't he? Everyone knows how close he was to making it to the Major Leagues! Papi and Papito take you to both Yankee Stadium and Citifield, time travel from the '80s to the present, dodge fastballs and curveballs, all in pursuit of their...

La vie est belle! À condition de la regarder avec les yeux du cœur, à la lumière de la vertu... Humour et fantaisie, morale et bienveillance sont ici au rendez-vous. Quinze histoires courtes, à raconter aux filles et aux garçons qui cherchent à découvrir et à voyager. Qu'ils oublient leurs écrans pour devenir à la fois acteurs, élèves et aventuriers! Embarquons-les dans l'univers des mots qui sont autant d'îles dans notre monde et...

Originally published between 1927 and 1958, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig are now going on to delight a sixth generation of children. Freddy the Pig, the "Renaissance Pig" (The New York Times Book Review) of Bean Farm, is back to thrill his fans of all ages in facsimile editions of these all-American children's classics. In Freddy Goes Camping, Mr. Camphor's aunts, Minerva and Elmira, are staying with him, much to his disgust. "There's...

Her castle under siege by an evil knight who keeps beheading all her would-be rescuers, Lady Lynet realizes the only way to get help is to get it herself. So one night she slips away and strikes out for King Arthur's court where she hopes to find a gallant knight to vanquish the Knight of the Red Lands and free her castle. Gerald Morris's Arthurian novel is a highly comic tale of hidden identities, mysterious knights, faeries and enchantments, damsels-in-distress,...

Alone in a house with monsters… …a kitten struggles to survive. Brownie's life as a kitten goes from bad to worse. First, humans take him from his mother. Then, after the tiniest of accidents, they take his claws. What they take next? His teeth? His tail? When the opportunity to escape arises, Brownie will have to make a choice. Will he choose to live in the wild, with no way to hunt for food? Or will he choose to continue living in captivity,...

When Fox meets a goose who has been left by her flock, he decides to help her catch up with her migrating friends. So Fox and Goose go on an epic journey through the city and across the sea, to return Goose to her flock. Once the chase is over, Goose realises how much fun she's had with her new friend. This beautiful and endearing story about discovering true friendship and helping others will enchant readers both young and old. Beautifully...

Ketchvar III's mission is simple: travel to Planet Earth, inhabit the body of an average teenager, and determine if the human race should be annihilated. And so Ketchvar-who, to human eyes, looks just like a common snail-crawls into the brain of one Tom Filber and attempts to do his analysis. At first glance, Tom appears to be the perfect specimen-fourteen years old, good health, above average intelligence. But it soon becomes apparent that Tom Filber...