Paul spielt mit seinen PLAYMOBIL-Welten im Kinderzimmer. Seine drei Lieblingsfiguren Sam, Emil und Liv durfen dabei nicht fehlen. Immer wenn er das Zimmer verlasst, passiert jedoch etwas sehr Merkwurdiges: Die Playmos werden lebendig und erleben ein aufregendes Abenteuer. Der Schatz der Pyramide wurde gestohlen! Eine hei?e Spur fuhrt die Playmos an Bord der romischen Galeere. Auf einer turbulenten Fahrt ubers Meer mussen sich Emil und Sam als L ...
Short-listed for the Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, 1996, the Violet Downey IODE Book Award, 1996 and the Silver Birch Award, 1997 While walking through a neighbourhood field in Alberta, Danny finds an 8,000-year-old arrowhead. His friend Joshua, who lives on the Peigan reserve at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, joins him on buffalo hunts, powwows, archaeological digs, and a break-in at the local museum. In the process Danny l ...
What do you do with elephants escaped from the zoo, or whales swimming loops around in your soup? Gwen Molnar answers these and other puzzling questions in a rollicking collection of readable, singable poems. ...
The name James FitzGibbon struck terror in the hearts of U.S. soldiers and this is the dramatic story of his life and his daring exploits. Irish-born James FitzGibbon came to Canada with the 49th Regiment to serve under his hero, Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. After the death of Brock at Queenston Heights and the capture of Fort George in the War of 1812, FitzGibbon spied on the enemy encampment, disguised as a settler selling butter. Armed with ...
Hans Christian Andersen erzahlt in dieser Geschichte das Leben und die Wunsche einer Tanne, die ein Christbaum werden will … Anna Thalbach entfuhrt in dieser ungekurzten Lesung in die Lebenswelt eines Tannenbaums. ...
2009 Word Guild Award – Winner, Young Adult Fiction In the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory’s father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia. But there is no question about what Sophie should do: with her guardian, Lady Theodosia Thornleigh, and Luc Moriset, she sets sail for Sydney. She finds Australia an outside-down country. The water goes down the drain the opposite ...
For twenty-three years during the golden age of radio in Canada, stories for children by Mary Grannan, "Just Mary," were broadcast by CBC and beloved across the country. She retired from broadcasting in 1962 and died in 1975, but her sweet-tempered and humorous stories still have the power to entertain, while recapturing the atmosphere of another time. Grannan published stories from Just Mary and Maggie Muggins in over thirty best-sellin ...
Short-listed for the 2004 Rocky Mountain Book Award and for the 2003 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award and long-listed for the 2002 CBC Canada Reads People’s Choice Book Kataryna Baliuk, a gifted fine arts student, is hoping to have a fresh start at Cawthra School for the Arts after a less-than-successful year at the neighbouring Catholic high school. But her hopes for a peaceful Grade 10 are shattered when she comes home from her first d ...
Paula liegt im Krankenhaus. Willi wills wissen und trifft sich mit Krankenschwester Kerstin. Was ist eine Visite? Warum ist OP-Kleidung grun und was passiert bei einer Operation? Tut bohren wirklich weh? Willi wills wissen und besucht Zahnarzt Oliver. Wie putzt man richtig Zahne? Wie wird ein Loch im Zahn repariert und wie funktioniert das mit der Zahnspange? ...
