The adventure begins once you get onto the ship. The character is immediately taken in by the sights and sounds of the jungle. The character has a guide but gets lost while gathering fruit and is left all alone. As he tries to make his way back to camp, he encounters various animals while getting into different situations. This story uses the imagination of the reader and allows them to interact with the characters by guessing what type of animal is being described. One can think of a parr...

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a su...

Sentimental Tommy & Tommy and Grizel gathers J. M. Barrie's two linked novels tracing Tommy Sandys from imaginative Scottish boyhood to troubled literary manhood. Set between the fictionalized Thrums and London, the work blends Victorian realism, psychological comedy, and Barrie's characteristic pathos. Its prose is playful yet incisive, exposing the dangers of self-dramatizing sentiment while participating in late-nineteenth-century debates about authorship, masculinity, childhood, and em...

A colorfully illustrated children's book that answers the age-old question about bears in the woods. A rhyming story.

The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess(Thornton Waldo Burgess).He was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, Bedtime Stories. He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column.

Curious George gets curious about words in this illustrated dictionary designed for children from preschool through kindergarten.In an illustrated introduction to this unique dictionary, Curious George learns how to look up words before embarking on an educational adventure through a vocabulary list chosen specifically for children ages four to six.The dictionary itself presents approximately 600 words, with six words to a page. Each entry is illustrated with...

In this new Pre-level 1 DK Reader, learn all about monkeys: from big to small, mischievous to meek!Packed with full-color photographs, lively illustrations, and engaging, age-appropriate stories to introduce young children to a life-long love of reading. These amazing stories are guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills. Perfect for reading together!

Ages 7-102015 National Science Teacher's Association Outstanding Science Trade BookA mother puma, an attempt to steal a chicken and an angry chicken farmer—the search is on for orphaned cubs. Will the scientists be able to find the cubs before their time runs out?

The inspiring story of young Jane Goodall, the legendary conservationist and primatologist, known for her revolutionary work with chimpanzees.A Caldecott Honor BookIn his characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all ani...

Join Ponder, a possum, on his adventures through his nighttime world as he listens to the sounds of the other nocturnal animals before heading to sleep as the day begins. 

Tribute and abridgement to Walt Disney's Bambi by a fan.

An exciting North Pole adventure chidren’s book.A fairy tale that shows the power that is hidden in the help of a friend, the time you just need it.A children’s book that will help our young friends gain knowledge –and have the first images in their minds- about the environment and the life in the North Pole, about the animals that live there, and their physiology. The peculiarities of each species, that allow them to be able to live and survive in there na...