Where Willy Went

Author: Nicholas Allan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375983805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Never before have the facts of life been presented in such an accessible—or novel—way. Our hero is Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends to win the prize—a marvelous egg. Then something wonderful happens, and eventually Mr. and Mrs. Browne have a baby girl who has the same winning smile as Willy and who grows up to be a great swimmer. Hilariously funny, warm, and endearing, this is a picture book that appeals on different levels to both children and grown-ups. “Fresh, original, and imaginative. . . . Allan’s achievement is in couching fascinating facts within the construct of a gentle, direct narrative. A little knowledge is a wonderful thing, and as the rest of the facts of life fall into place, Allan’s readers will look back on this book with a mixture of fondness and wry amusement.” —The Guardian (UK)

Stone Fox

Author: John Reynolds Gardiner
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062009664
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
John Reynolds Gardiner's classic action-packed adventure story about a thrilling dogsled race has captivated readers for more than thirty years. Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy, who lives with his grandfather in Wyoming. When Grandfather falls ill, he is no longer able to work the farm, which is in danger of foreclosure. Little Willy is determined to win the National Dogsled Race—the prize money would save the farm and his grandfather. But he isn't the only one who desperately wants to win. Willy and his brave dog Searchlight must face off against experienced racers, including a Native American man named Stone Fox, who has never lost a race. Exciting and heartwarming, this novel has sold millions of copies and was named a New York Times Outstanding Children's Book.

A Stranger to Myself

Author: Willy Peter Reese
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142999875X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides, the destruction which was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, exhaustion, and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realization that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men. An international sensation, A Stranger to Myself is an unforgettable account of men at war.

Where the Money Was

Author: Willie Sutton
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767918134
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America’s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.

Willy the Scrub

Author: Jamie McEwan
Publisher: Darby Creek
ISBN: 0761385959
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
It's hard being different. Everybody in Willy's family is an athlete-even his mom. And, although Willy wishes he were like the rest of his family, no matter how hard he tries he never seems to be as good as they are. When he hears there's going to be wres

Kitchener

Author: Philip Warner
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304367207
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
Kitchener is one of the most successful, and controversial, generals in the history of the British Empire. Uncovering new material, this title is the definitive biography of the iconic general. Originally published: London: Hamilton, 1985.

Death of a Salesman

Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110104215X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

How Did I Begin?

Author: Mick Manning
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780749656614
Category : Human reproduction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
If you choose to share 'the facts of life' with children at a young age, this is the perfect book to do so. It gently guides the reader through each stage of a child's development within the womb with charming illustrations and simple explanations, inviting lots of discussion and providing answers to all those questions. Shortlisted for the Junior Science Book Award (now the Royal Society's Science Prize).

Willie Wants to Wee-Wee

Author: Murray Ball
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781869436711
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
A small boy wakes to the horror of wanting desperately to go to the toilet. He considers a number of options before remembering that the toilet is where he must go. A humorous book to share during toilet training of little ones, and a great deal of fun for older boys too.

Willy and Hugh

Author: Anthony Browne
Publisher: Red Fox
ISBN: 9780552559652
Category : Chimpanzees
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Willy the chimp is lonely, but then he bumps into the gorilla Hugh Jape, and though the two of them are different, a touching friendship grows between them. Hugh protects little Willy from the attentions of Buster Nose, and Willy can read to Hugh and save the day when a hairy spider comes along!