: Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire video games!
All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!
: Usborne Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Animals (No:7410)
: Usborne
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: This delightful book answers all kinds of animal questions that young children might ask, such as “where do fish sleep?”, “do elephants have teeth” and “why do frogs jump?” Just lift the flaps to discover what, where, which, how and why! With entertaining illustrations and over 50 flaps to lift and look beneath.
: Anne Frank was born in Germany to a loving family. But when World War II broke out, Anne and her family had to hide in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Here, Anne wrote her famous diary, describing her belief in people's goodness and her hopes for peace. After the war, her diary captured the hearts of the public and she became one of the most important diarists of the 20th century.
: Little People Big Dreams : Mother Teresa (No:7408)
: M Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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: Agnes (later to become Mother Teresa) was born in Skopje, Macedonia. From an early age, she knew she wanted to dedicate herself to religion. She was fascinated by stories of missionaries helping people and wanted to do the same. She spent the rest of her life caring for the sick and poor around the world and is now remembered as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
: Little People Big Dreams : Maya Angelou (No:7407)
: Lisbeth Kaiser
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: Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers.
: Amulet # 01: The Stone Keeper (Graphic) (No:7406)
: Kazu Kinuishi
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: After a family tragedy, Emily, Navin and their mother move to an ancestral home to start a new life. On the family's first night in the mysterious house, Em and Navin's mom is kidnapped by a tentacled creature.
: Elmer the elephant enlists his animal friends to help him find the end of a strange, colorless rainbow so that he can share some of his patchwork colors and make it right.
: The sari Mother wears everyday is sometimes a train, sometimes a river or a swing or a hiding place... Children have a way of seeing things differently! the pictures too break away from conventional depictions of both sari and children, combining photographs and acrylic in dramatic, original ways. The spare text weaves and winds between this visual interplay of children, colours and textures, to create the mood-filled world of My Mother's Sari.
: Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives with his grandparents in pre-Independence Dehra Dun. Though he is not the adventurous himself, the strangest and most extraordinary things keep happening around him.
The house in Dehra is full of strange creatures. Rusty has to deal with everything from his grandfather's pet python to the ever-inventive Uncle Ken. Visiting his father in wartime Java, Rusty narrowly escapes enemy bombardment and survives a plane crash in the Arabian Sea. Back in India, he spends his time encountering a ghost in the garden and recreating his grandmother's youthful days from an old photograph. Then, something totally unexpected happens and Rusty is forced to leave Dehra, his future uncertain.
: Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.
As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil, Malala realized that she could still work hard every day to make her wishes come true.