Author: Morris Lurie Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780140342970 Category : Hippopotamus Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
This funny, exciting and best-selling story takes you behind the scenes as eight-year-old Edward trains for the greatest swimming marathon of all!
Author: Morris Lurie Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780001958098 Category : Children's stories, Australian Languages : en Pages : 56
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Eighty-four champion hippopotamuses hit the Zamboola River with a thunderous crash and the 27th Annual African Hippopotamus Race has begun!
Author: Jeanne Willis Publisher: Andersen Press USA ISBN: 1467703222 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! "It's a blister!" said her sister. "It's measles!" said Weasel. "It's hippopox!" said Fox. But in the end the spotamus turns out to be something hilariously unexpected!
Author: Rebecca Higgie Publisher: Fremantle Press ISBN: 1925816273 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
Book Description
When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief,hidden beneath the floorboards in their grandmother's house, they uncover asecret world. The History chronicles how, since antiquity, mischief-makers haveclandestinely shaped the past &– from an Athenian slave to a Polish salt miner andfrom an advisor to the Ethiopian Queen to a girl escaping the Siege of Paris. Jessiebecomes enthralled by the book and by her own mission to determine its accuracy.Soon the History inspires Jessie to perform her own acts of mischief, unofficiallybecoming mischief-maker number 202 in an effort to cheer up her eccentricneighbour, Mrs Moran, and to comfort her new schoolfriend, Theodore. However, noteverything is as it seems. As Jessie delves deeper into the real story behind theHistory, she becomes convinced her grandmother holds the key to a long-held familysecret.The History of Mischief is about the many things we do to try to escape
Author: Pat Mora Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group ISBN: 1430130725 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Chocolate, papaya, corn, and potatoes - these are only a taste of the many delicious foods native to the Americas and celebrated in this delightful collection. Imaginative, evocative poems and exuberant illustrations introduce 14 different indigenous foods, along with a descriptive paragraph of information for each.
Author: Morris Lurie Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780140557831 Category : Anxiety Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
A small boy wakes during the night to a mysterious noise and imagines all the things it might be. A picture book with rhyming, repetitive text and illustrations by Terry Denton. For ages 4Q8 years.
Author: Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520066960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Author: Sandra Nickel Publisher: ISBN: 9781620143698 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
"A picture book biography of Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya, a waiter at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, and the events surrounding the creation, in 1940, of the globally-popular tortilla chip, cheese, and jalapeño pepper snack that bears his name-nachos"--
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