¿Habrá alguien lo suficientemente listo, valiente y honesto que supere las pruebas?
Águeda Chacón Churruca hizo una gran fortuna con sus libros de terror, sus lectores la adoraban, aunque ella los odiaba: 'Escribo para que sufran', decía. En realidad, Águeda detestaba a todo el mundo, en especial a su familia, a quienes siempre tachó de chapuceros, flojos, interesados, y con pelo feo.
Un trágico día, Águeda muere electrocutada en su sillón de masajes y deja su inmensa fortuna a aquel pariente que consiga pasar doce noches en su colección de propiedades embrujadas. Fantasmas, muñecos poseídos, castillos encantados y un sinfín de aterradores escenarios esperan a los Chacón.
A timeless bedtime story from Francesca Simon, read by Lenny Henry. This download includes dramatised and undramatised versions of the story.
A little boy getting ready for bed looks up at the moon and wonders whether it can speak English as it shines all over the world. He tells the moon about his day - it's not lonely falling asleep when you share your day's adventures with the moon.
Meet DJ Funkyfoot! He's a Chihuahua and a butler! Meet Wolfgoose Pigwig! He's a very fancy, very famous opera star. When Wolfgoose Pigwig calls looking for the very best butler, DJ Funkyfoot jumps at the opportunity. But helping out this fancy star isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Wolfgoose's demands keep getting more and more absurd. And so do the disasters. Robbery! Wrecks! Romance! And even ... rapping?
Meet DJ Funkyfoot! He's a Chihuahua whose dream of becoming a butler is finally coming true! Meet President Horse! He's the president of the United States. When President Horse's butler needs a day off, he knows just the person to call. All DJ Funkyfoot has to do is make sure that the president signs the peace treaty with the Queen of Wingland. But the president doesn't feel like it! He just wants to play mini golf. How can DJ Funkyfoot possibly say no-especially to a president-when a butler's job is to say yes?
Meet DJ Funkyfoot! He's not actually a DJ-he's a Chihuahua and a butler! Meet ShrubBaby! She's an adorable baby shrub with a taste for thrills, fertilizer, and fame. Finding a butler gig is hard these days, so DJ Funkyfoot takes a job that's ALMOST like being a butler ... He becomes a nanny for ShrubBaby! A nanny might say no to this baby's whims, but a good butler always says yes. So when adventure calls and ShrubBaby says, "Let's go!", DJ Funkyfoot says, "Very good, m'lady, I'll fetch your stroller."
Emma and her puppy, Dixie, are inseparable after-school friends.
But when Emma starts preparing for her class's production of The Wizard of Oz, Dixie feels left out. She wants to romp and play, but all Emma wants to do is memorize her lines in peace and quiet. Dixie does not understand.
Dixie, the mischievous puppy who is trying to be good, will be embraced by beginning readers.
Explore Enchancia with Sofia the First, and come along on a mission with Bingo and Rolly! This fun-filled collection features four stories starring your favorite Disney Junior pals.
In “The Perfect Tea Party”, Sofia is hosting the annual school tea party. Her stepsister Amber thinks that bigger, fancier parties are best. Amber tells Sofia she needs floating furniture and swan ice sculptures at her party, but Sofia wants something simpler. Follow along as Sofia chooses between what she wants and what is expected of her.
There’s no day quite like a snow day . . . especially when it involves casting snow spells, building haunted igloos, and riding in flying sleighs. Join Vampirina and her friends in “Snowplace Like Home”, a fang-tastic story based on a winter-themed episode of Vampirina!
In “Meet A.R.F.”, the pups’ owner Bob introduces them to A.R.F., a robotic dog programmed to clean up any messes the puppies make. The only problem is that A.R.F. isn’t programmed to clean up after himself!
In “Minnie’s Surprise”, Minnie and Daisy are hired to babysit Clara Cluck’s egg, but it begins to hatch on their watch! Follow along as the Happy Helpers try to get the mama hen and her egg back together in time.
In the town of Ghostly, where everything is spooky, something really strange is going on: Books are disappearing! And not just any books'only those written by the famous author Edgar Bleek.
Luckily ace reporter Dirk Bones is on the case. As Dirk tracks down information about the only clue'a weird spotted leaf'the mystery gets even more bizarre. What is happening in Ghostly?
Expect the unexpected in this second Dirk Bones mystery about a fearless reporter in a town full of silly, creepy creatures.
In the town of Ghostly, where every house is haunted, two ghosts are frightened. . . .
Someone is haunting them with mysterious sounds: Clack, cluckity-cluck bing, blub blub. Or is it click, cluck-clackity cling, flub flub? They can't agree on what the sounds are, but they know they're not ghostly noises. What could be more scary?
Good thing ace reporter Dirk Bones is on the case. Dirk writes for the town newspaper, The Ghostly Tombs, and as he collects the facts for his stories, he also solves mysteries.
As Dirk investigates this zany case, he encounters more silly, creepy creatures in a town full of promise for more surprising mysteries to come.
John Cusick returns with the second hilarious installment of his middle grade duology about a 31st-century boy and a 21st-century girl who team up to save the universe.
Phineas T. Fogg and Lola Ray may have just saved the universe without really trying, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get Lola back home to the twenty-first century. Their only hope is to find Dimension Why. Good thing Lola’s father left her a map embossed on a Twinkie.
But before Phin and Lola can begin their search, a mysterious girl, wearing a bathrobe and riding a dragon, absconds with the special snack cake! And, oh right, the mystery girl wants to destroy the universe!
Now the two besties must travel the galaxy, escape the clutches of the Golden Cathedral, and face down the all-powerful evil AI of a floundering interstellar publishing company. As they begin to uncover the truth about their mysterious foe, Phineas and Lola realize that there’s more to this Twinkie-stealing, dragon-riding girl than meets the eye.
Pop open a Maybe Meal, heat up some baked beans, and get ready to save the universe one last time, we promise . . . with the second book in this hilarious adventure series by acclaimed author John Cusick.
A 31st-century boy and a 21st-century girl team up to save the universe, evade an evil race of bog mutants, and make a quick pit stop to visit the moon in Dimension Why.
John Cusick’s middle grade debut will transport you to a vast fantasy world full of absurd humor that will keep you gasping all the way to the twist ending
.Lola Ray was a normal 21st-century girl until a poorly timed sneeze in an X-ray machine flung her a thousand years into the future. To get back home, she’ll have to team up with Phineas T. Fogg, a 31st-century boy whose only friend up until now has been his talking teddy bear and whose overprotective parents have never let him leave his high-tech apartment.
Together, Lola and Phin will have to cross the galaxy, brave a mysterious invitation to tea, and escape a race of all-powerful interdimensional beings who are convinced that Lola knows the answer to the universe’s biggest question . . . the question of The End.
