Bookworm Akira has read about the conniving ways of Yokai, but when he trips over one along a forest path, he decides to help the creature back to its murky water home.
The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterranean island of Mervo, dragging in the unwitting heir to the throne to help.
The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.
This book tells the story of an impoverished, embarrassment-prone Drone Archibald "e;Archie"e; Moffam (pronounced "e;Moom"e;), and his difficult relationship with his art-collecting, hotel-owning millionaire father-in-law Daniel Brewster.
After seven years, the Giant has nothing left to say to his friend the Cornish ogre, and so he returns home to his castleonly to find that in his absence, the children have been playing in his beautiful garden.
Children's Storybook Features:* 32 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches* Ages 4-8, PreK-Grade 3 Level Readers, Lexile 470L* Simple, easy-to-read pages with vibrant illustrations* A classic tale that helps children learn important life lessons* Includes hundreds of words to introduce and help build vocabularyThe Magic Of Reading: Introduce your child to the world of literature with the timeless classic, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
English-Spanish VersionIn this beloved tale, the three bears are in for quite a surprise when they return home and realize that a curious girl has made herself at home in their cottage.
Aliana Fagan has done what many thought impossible: shes awakened King Arthur from his fifteen-hundred-year sleep, reunited the Knights of the Round Table, and even beaten Mordrid and Morgana LeFay in battle.
Co-written by New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor winning author Shannon Hale, this sequel to the highly acclaimed Rapunzel's Revenge is a hilarious tall tale about Jack, his beanstalk .
The third charming story in the Tales of the Wide-Awake Princess series, a magical and romantic twist on Sleeping Beauty, by the author of The Frog Princess.
Cory is a young tooth fairy in training who wants to be anything but that, except there's no way the Tooth Fairy Guild or her mother will let that happen.
Pandy has recaptured six of the great Evils that she "e;accidentally"e; let loose, and now our foursome--Pandy, Alcie, Iole, and Homer--is on the hunt for the worst of them all: Fear.
A lively tale of one young womans adventure to pass her Official Princess Test, discover a means of escape from her island, and reveal her true destiny.
