From run-ins with the Sheriff of Nottingham to gathering the merry men in Sherwood Forest, the tales of Robin Hood are filled with adventure and fun. This abbreviated collection of Robin Hood's most notable exploits both delights and educates while an included read-a-long featurette promotes literacy. ...
Тётя Мотя – художница в парке. Она добрая и очень любит раскрашивать детей. Как увидит в парке ребенка – хвать его – и сразу раскрашивает. Думаете, дети бывают против? Ничуть. Ведь это весело! А что бывает, если нарисованные бабочки летают, свистки свистят, а лягушата квакают? Веселые детские приключения! И так много разноцветных картинок, что никто из знакомых художников не смог их нарисовать. Пока. Может, они никогда не видели гвоздееда? Не уд ...
Times are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least, that's what Gilly's heard. Rumor is that notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Headmistress Flora, and he's locked down the school tighter than the Pied Piper's pants. Not that this news concerns Gilly-she's been released from FTRS and is now suffering through attending Jack of All Trades School where she gets to learn about different ...
In The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, Miss Hatty Doran, after several strange episodes on the day of her marriage to Lord St. Simon, disappears from the reception. St. Simon tells Holmes that he noticed a change in the young lady's mood just after the wedding ceremony, having been uncharacteristically sharp with him. Also unusual: she dropped her wedding bouquet and a gentleman in the front pew handed it back to her. For Holmes, it proves ...
Zak Raven, once the superhero Kid Ranger, is now just a typical fifteen-year-old boy living in Bluffside. But when most of his friends are playing video games or studying for their final exams, Zak is fighting real life robots, and defeating his arch enemy, Professor Dimitri Raine. ...
Nach Uberwindung vieler Gefahren lichtet sich nun das Dunkel um Old Surehands Vergangenheit. Old Shatterhand und Winnetou ziehen mit ihren Begleitern, unter ihnen die «Verkehrten Toasts» Dick Hammerdull und Pitt Holbers, hinauf ins Felsengebirge, wo alle Faden zusammenlaufen. ...
In The Five Orange Pips, a young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw tells the strange story of his uncle Elias Openshaw, who came back to England after living in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a colonel in the Confederate Army. His uncle begins receiving threatening letters inscribed KKK and including five orange pips. He is killed shortly thereafter. The job of unraveling this sordid transatlantic mystery falls to Ho ...
