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This collection of 19 five-minute stories includes traditional tales like The Three Little Pigsand Puss in Boots. Contemporary writer are also featured, with the authors including Joyce Dunbar, Dick King-Smith, Adele Geras, Catherine Sefton and Kaye Umansky.
This wonderful collection mixes timeless classics with modern favourites and is brought to life by Steve Cox's beautiful full-colour illustrations. You'll meet all kinds of unusual animals - a disobedient hedgehog who refuses to hibernate, a tiny elephant who befriends a mouse, the tortoise who tries to fly and many more. There's always enough time for a five-minute story!
A butterfly that plays with its shadows; A cow who just can't resist sweet cakes An elephant that can fly This zooful of animal stories is a treat for all you animal lovers and those who share that special bond with your pets. There's Aman whose visit to the zoo changes his views on animals; Adil who prevents his pet chicken Noor from being eaten at Eid; and Arthy whose tortoise theme birthday party turns out to be a hit!
A companion volume to Fantastic First Poems but solely about animals. It is split into sections - farmyard, fish and sealife, wildlife and jungle, insects and creepy-crawlies and mythical. It includes shaped poems and concrete poems both traditional and contemporary. The collection is illustrated by a host of talented artists and given a superb cover.
When Surya the sun god got married, his wife could not bear the heat of his rays and ran away. Surya was heartbroken and the world plunged into darkness. A dwarf asked a king for some land, which he measured with three footsteps, and ended up claiming the earth and the sky. Sage Daksha got his daughters married to the moon, but later, in a fit of rage, cursed the moon with consumption, making it wax and wane. These are some of the fifty myths from India recounted in this fabulously produced book. From wise sages to demonic asuras, beautiful river deities to arrogant kings, wayward gods to brave princes, this collection of myths showcases the most enchanting and magical stories from Indian mythology.
A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing exactly like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.
