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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hello Kitty & Friends The Adventures of Where s Santa including four other episodes is from an award winning animated series which uses computer generated imagery (CGI) that embraces themes of happiness family & friendship for children to watch with their family & friends Although the show is aimed at children between the ages of three to ten it is popular for viewers of all ages The series focuses on core values established more than 30 years ago such as happiness family values friendship & educational values Unlike the older series which were short & cute episodes this series is a mixture of entertainment & education that targets both children & their parents The animation teaches children from age two to six about words simple math shapes & colors The series offers an entertaining way for children to learn about social interaction & behavior while following the adventures of Hello Kitty ...

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 ...

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'
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Mark Twain's witty satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is edited with a critical introduction by Peter Coveney Mark Twain's story of a boy's 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 abusive ' Pap' & the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with 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 Based on the first edition of 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Includes:: a chronology & list of further reading by Richard Maxwell Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) trained as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river; ' Mark Twain' a phrase used on riverboats to indicate that the water is two fathoms deep became the pseudonym by which he was best known After the Civil War Twain turned to journalism publishing his first short story in 1865 Dubbed 'the father of American literature' by William Faulkner Twain led a colourful life of travelling bankruptcy & great literary success If you enjoyed The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn you may like Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer also available in Penguin Classics' All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn There has been nothing as good since' Ernest Hemingway' Huckleberry Finn like other great works of imagination can give to every reader whatever he is capable of taking from it'TS Eliot


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Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything But when Huck's dad returns & kidnaps him he must escpe down the Mississippi river with runaway slave Jim They encounter trouble at every turn from floods & gunfights to armed bandits & the long arm of the law Through it all the friends stick together
- but can Huck & Tom free Jim from slavery once & for all? With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense it ain't good morals Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel an incomparable adventure story & a classic of anarchic humour Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn & Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft There they find steamships feuding families an unlikely Duke & King & vital lessons about the world in which they live With its unforgettable cast of characters Hemingway called this 'the best book we've ever had' The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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