Jag ska aldrig glömma när herr Liljonkvast hämtade mig första gången. Det knackade på rutan. En mycket liten herre i rutig kostym och hög hatt kom in genom fönstret. ”Mitt namn är herr Liljonkvast”, sa han, ”jag trippar omkring lite varstans på fönsterblecken för att se om det inte finns några barn som vill följa med till Skymningslandet. Kanske du vill det?” Om jag vill!
In 1905, ten-year-old Lavina Cumming hugs her father good-bye and boards a train headed north. She is leaving her father, her five brothers, and her ranch in Arizona Territory to live with her rich aunt in California. With warmth and charm, award-winning author Susan Lowell paints a unique portrait of life in historic California. I Am Lavina Cumming blends adventure, friendship, and southwestern lore into a delightful story that will win the hearts of young listeners everywhere.
The poet, Gringoire and Quasimodo, the bell-ringer for the Cathedral of Notre Dame, meet a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda. Gypsies are not allowed in the city of Paris and when Frollo, the Advisor to the King, tries to arrest Esmeralda she escapes with the help of Quasimodo. Gringoire eventually finds Esmeralda and Frollo is arrested by the king. Gringoire and Esmeralda are married.
Sing this story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children early learning skills is fun and successful. Help the children glue and tape Humpty Dumpty back together again with this adapted version of the classic Humpty Dumpty rhyme. Then enjoy five more classic nursery rhymes including Jack and Jill, Oh Where, Oh where, Has My Little Dog Gone?, Five Little Piggies and Little Miss Muffet! The fun Sing A Story series includes: Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Ten In The Bed, B-I-N-G-O, Down By The Bay, Humpty Dumpty & Other Nursery Rhymes, Six Little Ducks, Five Little Skunks, ABC Nursery Rhymes, The Wheels On The Bus, This Old Man, How Many Ducks?, Old MacDonald's Letter Farm, The ABCs, Singing The Consonant Sounds, The Farmer In The Dell and It's Silly Time!
Huckleberry Finn lebt in einem kleinen Städtchen am Ufer des Mississippi. Doch das gewöhnliche Leben, das die Menschen dort führen, wird Huck schnell zu eintönig. Das ändert sich, als er auf den Sklaven Jim trifft. Aufgrund seiner Hautfarbe ist Jim ein Außenseiter - ebenso wie der weiße Huck, der mit dem Leben der Kleinstädter nichts anfangen kann. Kurze Zeit später müssen beide auf abenteuerliche Weise aus dem kleinen Örtchen fliehen und eine spannende Reise beginnt. Erzählt nach dem Klassiker von Mark Twain.-
Am Ufer des Mississippi liegt das beschauliche Städtchen, in dem Huck leben muss - alles ist ihm langweilig und zu ordentlich. Kaum zu glauben: Sein Vater versucht ihm zu verbieten, in die Schule zu gehen! Und so dauert es nicht lange, bis er unter abenteuerlichen Umständen fliehen muss. Er - als weißer Außenseiter - und Jim, ein schwarzer Sklave, tun sich zusammen, in einer Zeit, in der Rassismus und Sklaverei fest verwurzelt waren. Auf einem Floß lassen sie sich den Fluss hinunter treiben und erleben ein Abenteuer nach dem anderen. Eine witzige, anarchische und spannende Geschichte!
Two of Twain's great classics are combined here, adding to Naxos AudioBooks' now well-established collection of box sets. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun, excitement, and buried treasure, along the shores of the great river. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, floating down the Mississippi on their raft, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a runaway slave, find life filled with excitement and the spirit of adventure. Join Huck and Jim and their old friend Tom Sawyer as they come up against low-down thieves and murderers whilst being chased by Huck's evil, drunken father who is after Huck's treasure. It is a trip you that you'll never tire of.
Revered by all of the town's children and dreaded by all of its mothers, Huckleberry Finn is indisputably the most appealing child-hero in American literature.
Unlike the tall-tale, idyllic world of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is firmly grounded in early reality. From the abusive drunkard who serves as Huckleberry's father to Huck's first tentative grappling with issues of personal liberty and the unknown, Huckleberry Finn endeavors to delve quite a bit deeper into the complexities-both joyful and tragic of life.
'American Literature began with Huckleberry Finn.' - Ernest Hemingway.
'This required standard of American literature is brought to life for students. A wonderful selection for school libraries.' - School Library Journal
Thomas Becker is a Shakespearean actor and High School teacher.
The beloved modern classic, released as an unabridged audiobook for the first time in 2019.
In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell . . .
Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls...
There Sophie meets Michael, Howl's apprentice, and Calcifer the fire demon, with whom she agrees a pact. Her entanglements with Calcifer, Howl and Michael and her quest to break her curse come alive with Diana Wynne Jones's unique combination of magic, humour and imagination.
"Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle." So writes Merle Johnson, who has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
Robert Browning's classic adventure ballad. Three riders set off from Ghent to bring urgent news to Aix. They ride furiously through the night and the next day. Only one completes the journey and saves the fate of the town.
Robert Browning's classic adventure ballad. Three riders set off from Ghent to bring urgent news to Aix. They ride furiously through the night and the next day. Only one completes the journey and saves the fate of the town.
