The first English translation of the entire Adventures of Dieter Lumpen series the most famous work of the Angoulême award-winning team of Jorge Zentner & Ruben Pellejero Dieter Lumpen is a man of the world an adventurer who wants no part of adventure Nonetheless he is swept along to exotic locations from Turkey to the Caribbean from China to Venice He is not quite so hard-boiled as the typical adventure hero As written by Zentner Dieter’s irony is gentler more subtle more reflective & more tongue-in-cheek than hard or bitter Pellejero is quite simply one of Europe’s top comics artists who was chosen for the plum job to illustrate the new adventures of Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese Dieter Lumpen began in 1981 & continued until 1994 This definitive omnibus collects all eight short stories & the three graphic novels with a foreword by Tim Sale ...

Dog Man the newest hero from the creator of Captain Underpants is still learning a few tricks of the trade If only the Chief would throw him a bone every once & a while Dog Man needs to dry up the drool dust away the dander & roll out of the refuse if he's going to impress the Chief & he needs to do it fast! Petey the cat is out of the bag & his criminal curiosity is taking the city by storm Can the canine crime biter unleash justice on this ruffian in time to save the city or will Petey get away with the purrfect crime? ...

Hot diggity dog! Dog Man the newest hero from the creator of Captain Underpants is back & this time he's not alone The heroic hound with a real nose for justice now has a sidekick in the form of a super-cute kitten & together they have a mysterious caper to sniff out! When a new kitty sitter arrives & a glamorous movie starlet goes missing it's up to Dog Man & Cat Kid to save the day! Will these heroes stay hot on the trail or will they be thrown off the scent & start barking up the wrong tree? ...

From the author of Watership Down Richard Adams comes an enchanting picture book about the adventures of a mischievous homemade dragon Illustrated by Alex T Smith creator of Claude the bestselling beret-clad canine hero Whatever you've lost Egg Box Dragon will find it He's retrieved missing footballs glasses & watches aplenty He's so expert at cracking mysteries that the Queen herself requests his services Will Egg Box Dragon find the missing diamond from the Queen's crown? Richard Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal & the Guardian Award for children's fiction Watership Down has sold over 50 million copies A new mini series of Watership Down will premiere Christmas 2017 on BBC1 & launch globally on Netflix Spring 2018 featuring the voices of Olivia Colman & Freddie Fox amongst others ...

Hamish & Mirren live in a quiet farmhouse by a beautiful loch in Scotland Quiet that is except for the talking sea urchin singing sand hungry fairies sad bogle & grumpy witch! This delightful collection of stories is a true Scottish children's classic Moira Miller's characteristic wit & humour shine through & Mairi Hedderwick's funny charming illustrations bring gentle Hamish & his canny wife wonderfully to life for younger readers ...

The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends is a 3-D computer animated television series that follows the comic stories of the hugely popular Hello Kitty & several of her closest friends Along the way they learn important life lessons & develop friendships with other new characters Kitty & her friends go on many exciting adventures from the South Pole to the North Pole in search of a missing Santa Claus & everywhere in between
- even a trip to outer space! Disc One Where&s Santa? & Four Other Episodes Santa s missing! Join Kitty & her friends as they embark on a mission to find Santa Can they find him in time to save Christmas? Episode 1 Run My Melody Run Episode 2 Where&s Santa? (Part One) Episode 3 Where&s Santa? (Part Two) Episode 4 Hide & Seek Episode 5 A Fish Story Disc Two Lost & Hound & Four Other Episodes If you got lost who would you trust to find the way back home? The kids have to decide between Badtz-Maru & Daniel but don&t count out Pochacco who has a nose for these things! Episode 1 There&s No Space Like Home Episode 2 Lost & Hound Episode 3 March of the Badtz-Maru&s Episode 4 Tall Order (Part One) Episode 5 Tall Order (Part Two)
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Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics' We said there warn't no home like a raft after all Other places do seem so cramped up & smothery but a raft don't You feel mighty free & easy & comfortable on a raft' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death & so begins his journey through the Deep South seeking independence & freedom On his travels Huck meets an escaped slave Jim who is a wanted man & together they journey down the Mississippi River Raising the timeless & universal l issues of prejudice bravery & hope the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was & still is considered the great American novel ...

Mark Twain's classic tale of escape & adventure rivetingly retold for today's readers To get away from his violent drunken father Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death & lives wild in the woods He soon meets Jim a runaway slave & the two outcasts set off on a dangerous journey down the mighty Mississippi river in search of freedom ...

Widely considered one of the greatest American novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn & his companion the slave Jim as they journey down the Mississippi river after running away from Huck's alcoholic father & Jim's owners As they travel they encounter a floating house feuding families & cunning grifters but more importantly Huck gets to know Jim & regard him as a friend & equal overcoming the racial prejudices of the time in a landmark narrative which poignantly addresses the issues of growing up & finding freedom ...

Mark Twain's great American masterpiece in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable & collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice & experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before When Huck escapes from his drunken father & the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families & the trickery of the unscrupulous ' Duke' & ' Dauphin' Beneath the exploits however are more serious undercurrents
- of slavery adult control & above all of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness & the corrupt values of society which threaten his deep & enduring friendship with Jim Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on 30th November 1835 in Florida Missouri In 1853 he left home earning a living as an itinerant type-setter & four years later became an apprentice pilot on the Mississippi a career cut short by the outbreak of the Civil War For five years as a prospector & a journalist Clemens lived in Nevada & California In February 1863 he first used the pseudonym ' Mark Twain' as the signature to a humorous travel letter A trip to Europe & the Holy Land in 1867 became the basis of his first major book The Innocents Abroad (1869) His numerous subsequent books include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) A Tramp Aborad (1880) The Prince & the Pauper (1882) & his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin (1885) Twain died on 21st April 1910' The best book we've had'
- Ernest Hemingway

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