(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Summary
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body of a spider, and is very grumpy indeed. He grants the children one wish every day, and though they are excited to have all their desires fulfilled, they...
Author
Series
Summary
In a rip-roaring journey of peril and adventure, four explorers find a lost prehistoric world in the remote wilds of South America. Huge pterodactyls rule the skies and the jungle beneath is home to lumbering stegosaurus, carnivorous dinosaurs and terrifying ape-men. If the adventurers can survive then fame and fortune almost certainly await them back in London, but in this dangerous land that defies all science and reason who knows what could happen....
Author
Summary
Animals make perfect counting company! The simple language teaches young readers mathematical terms and counting concepts. Learn to count from 11 to 20 in the Piglets Playing book in this adorable series that counts the critters. Special thanks to content consultants Paula J. Maida, PhD. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades preK-3.
13) Cylinders
Author
Summary
The 3-D Shapes illustrated nonfiction books provide the first lessons on three-dimensional shapes. In Cylinders, rhyming text and creative illustrations draw attention to cylinders that are found in the world around us.
14) Prisms
Author
Summary
The 3-D Shapes illustrated nonfiction books provide the first lessons on three-dimensional shapes. In Prisms, rhyming text and creative illustrations draw attention to prisms that are found in the world around us.
15) Spheres
Author
Summary
The 3-D Shapes illustrated nonfiction books provide the first lessons on three-dimensional shapes. In Spheres, rhyming text and creative illustrations draw attention to spheres that are found in the world around us.
Author
Summary
We owe The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed...
