A st&-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French with pictures by Marta Kissi a talented new illustrator & animator A st&-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French with pictures by a talented new illustrator & animator Marta Kissi Alfie Onion has just set off on a great adventure but only to carry his brother's luggage It's his elder brother Magnifico Onion who's destined to win their family a Happily Ever After But when it turns out Magnifico isn't half the hero he's cracked up to be it falls to Alfie to save the day
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Saul Bellow's American masterpiece The Adventures of Augie March

Includes:: an introduction by Christopher

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With a malevolent entity about to un-tell every story ever told erase every character ever imagined (including you!) it’s up to Augusta Wind Mr Snabbit the Omniphant & Upton Snuff to stop the Story Killer & save the Storiverse But weird worlds bizarre creatures & terrible dangers await them—and victory is not assured! Meet the Author Born & raised in Brooklyn New York Eisner Award winner J M De Matteis was a professional musician & rock music journalist before entering the comic book field Although he&s written almost all of the major DC & Marvel icons — including critically-lauded runs on Justice League International & Spider-Man (the epic " Kraven’s Last Hunt" was voted the number one story in Spider-Man’s fifty year history by Comic Book Resources) De Matteis&s greatest acclaim has come for sophisticated original graphic novels like Seekers Into The Mystery Blood A Tale The Last One & Mercy The autobiographical Brooklyn Dreams was picked by the ALA as one of the Ten Best Graphic Novels & Booklist in a starred review called it "as graphically distinguished & creatively novelistic a graphic novel as has ever beena classic of the form" The groundbreaking Moonshadow was chosen (along with Brooklyn Dreams Blood & other De Matteis works) for inclusion in Gene Kanenberg Jr&s 2008 book 500 Essential Graphic Novels — where it was hailed as one of the finest fantasy graphic novels ever created His success in the comic book medium has led De Matteis to work in both television (writing live action & animation) & movies (creating screenplays for Fox Disney Feature Animation directors Carlo Carlei & Chris Columbus & producer Dean Devlin among others) More recently De Matteis has had great success with the children’s fantasy series Abadazad (hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "one of those very rare fantasy works that can enchant preteen kids & 40-year old fanboys") The Life & Times of Savior 28 (called "one of the finest super hero stories of the decade" by Newsarama) & the novel Imaginalis (which Publishers Weekly praised as "a sure-footed fantasy" with a "hopeful message about the power of reading & belief") Current projects include the all-ages fantasies The Adventures of Augusta Wind & The Edward Gloom Mysteries; writing for Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go; his ongoing Imagination 101 workshops which explore the practicalities & metaphysics of writing for comics graphic novels & animation; & Creation Point a story consultation service that offers in-depth guidance for both the professional & aspiring writer ...

Augusta Webster thought she was an ordinary girl living an ordinary life in an ordinary town But that was before the Snabbit
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Terry Gilliam director of & Time Bandits& & & Brazil& comes & The Adventures of Baron Munchausen& a spectacular epic fantasy quite unlike any other film ever made Just who is Baron Munchausen? Liar? Rogue? Madman? Or the greatest superhero ever to battle & triumph against unbeatable odds? Did he really ride through the air on a cannonball slay a three-headed griffin journey to the moon all before breakfast? Helped & hindered by a cast of quite literally thousands including Vulcan Berthold & many more the indomitable Baron succeeds in overcoming every obstacle to face his final greatest challenge Death itself? There&s never been a film remotely like this but then there&s never been a hero to compare with the Baron ...

Alaric Moebius & Basil Fox are two lovable scoundrels looking to make a quick fortune In the employment of the mysterious
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On one very special day an imaginary friend is born on an island far away Here he & his other imaginary friends play all day & each night they sit beneath the stars hoping & waiting for their turn to be picked to be imagined by a real child But this particular imaginary friend waits & waits & still no child imagines him So he does the unimaginable
- he sets off into the real world Once there he searches so long that he is just about to give up when a shy bookish girl named Alice meets him Gradually they discover they are perfect for each other & Alice has the perfect name for her imaginary friend Beekle
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Deep under Sao Miguel island rumoured to be the last emerging part of Atlantis Professor Mortimer has discovered samples of a mysterious radioactive metal Could it be the Atlanteans' legendary orichalcum? When he & his friend Blake set out on an expedition into the depths to find out sabotage occurs in the form of their old opponent Olrik & soon all three will be embroiled in a power struggle far bigger in scope than they could have imagined ...

Captain Blake seems to have lost the first round in Part 1 having been assassinated at Athens airport But a furious Mortimer swears that he'll never stop trying to avenge his friend He goes on the hunt but information is scarce Strange happening occur when he comes under the protection of Sheik Abdel Razek & Mortimer soon feels like he's losing his way in his investigation which will lead him to the darkest depths of the Great Pyramid ...

Captured & then abandoned by Olrik Mortimer is now lost at sea with no provisions Fortunately he can always count on Blake Once reunited & with the help of some old friends the two British gentlemen continue their dangerous mission to stop Von Stahl from resurrecting the Third Reich using the evil power of the 30 pieces of silver A mission that will take them throughout Greece & into the very Kingdom of Hades! ...