Children's Omnibus Volume 2

Children's Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11
Genre: Children's stories, Indic (English)
ISBN: 9788129129741

For over six decades now, Ruskin Bond has been entertaining and touching the lives of countless readers, young and old, with his stories, novels and poems. Children's Omnibus: Volume 2 brings together the best of his stories for young readers. Included here are old favourites like 'The School among the Pines' and 'The Night the Roof Blew Off', as well as lesser-known anecdotes such as the hilarious 'My Failed Omelettes and Other Disasters' and the heart-warming 'Adventures in Reading'. A selection of his charming, whimsical poetry for children, also included in this volume, makes this book a truly enchanting read. Funny, thoughtful, nostalgic and uplifting, Children's Omnibus: Volume 2 is a treat for children and adults alike.

The Ruskin Bond Children's Omnibus

The Ruskin Bond Children's Omnibus
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa & Company
Total Pages: 327
Release: 1995
Genre: Children's stories, Indic (English)
ISBN: 9788171672882

A Bumper Bond ! Here's a treat for Ruskin Bond Fans-the Ruskin Bond Children's Omnibus!The superbly illustrated volume contains many of Ruskin Bond's best stories, including the ever-popular Grand Father's Private Zoo, written over twenty-five years ago and a firm favourite with two generations of children.For those who love India, good stories, and simple but elegant writing, this is more than a party, it's a banquet!

Children of the Sea, Vol. 1

Children of the Sea, Vol. 1
Author: Daisuke Igarashi
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-07-14
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1421547554

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish. -- VIZ Media

A Treasury of Children's Literature

A Treasury of Children's Literature
Author: Armand Eisen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1992
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395533499

A collection of traditional and original stories and poems by such authors as Aesop and Lewis Carroll, including excerpts from "The Wind in the Willows" and "Peter Pan."

The Witcher: Volume 2 - Fox Children

The Witcher: Volume 2 - Fox Children
Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2015-12-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630083321

Geralt’s journey leads him aboard a ship of fools, renegades, and criminals—but some passengers are more dangerous than others, and one hides a heinous secret that could lead crew and passengers to a bitter and hideous fate at the hand of a vengeful fox mother! Collects The Witcher: Fox Children #1–#5. * The Witcher games have collectively earned over 250 industry awards and have sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide! * For fans of Hellboy and B.P.R.D.! “Paul Tobin has an exceptional grasp of the lore.”—Bloody Disgusting

Nocturnals Omnibus Volume 2

Nocturnals Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Dan Brereton
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506726224

Dan Brereton’s Eisner-nominated lush, innovative, and action-packed stories of supernatural menace and gritty heroics are collected in this second volume omnibus edition, featuring weird tales of horror and crime. The Nocturnals revolves around the mysterious quest of underworld enforcer and occult figure, Doc Horror; his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl) who carries a pumpkin full of haunted toys; the Gunwitch, a silent, two-gun revenant with an itch to kill monsters; the lissome wraith Polychrome, and a host of hard-boiled inhuman players battling hidden evils lurking on the outskirts of human knowledge. Collects the previously published Nocturnals volumes: The Dark Forever, Gunwitch: Outskirts of Doom, Spectres, and A Nocturnal Alphabet.

Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 2

Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 161655861X

Who will stand against invaders from space, robot slave masters, and a dictator producing human clones? Astro Boy, that's who! The most popular and influential creation of Osamu Tezuka, "the Walt Disney of Japan," Astro Boy is all-ages adventure packed with action, laughs, and a few tugs at the heartstrings. Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 2 is 680 pages of Tezuka's classic manga, value priced and ready to rock the 21st Century! Osamu Tezuka is renowned internationally as a master cartoonist, animator, and storyteller. "Tezuka is widely considered the most important and influential figure in post-World War II Japanese animation." -The New York Times "Comics are a bridge between all cultures." -Osamu Tezuka "The Astro Boy stories always end with peace and human supremacy restored, but usually not before both sides, human and robot, have committed great wrongs." -ANIMERICA

Best Children's Books in the World

Best Children's Books in the World
Author: Byron Preiss
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780810912465

Each delightful story in this appealing collection of contemporary illustrated children's books from 16 different countries is reprinted with complete text and original art.

Empowered Omnibus Volume 2

Empowered Omnibus Volume 2
Author: Adam Warren
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506718671

Sexy? Aye! Superhero? Affirmative! Comedy? Yea, verily! Adam Warren's critically acclaimed Empowered shakes the foundations of the heavens as "one of the great modern superhero comics" (View From the Gutters) that's "laugh-out-loud funny" (Comics Worth Reading) while remarkably generating "genuinely affecting emotion" (Library Journal). Might such a miraculous melange portend "a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level" (Comic Book Resources)? Certainement! An astonishing 674 pages collecting Empowered volumes 4, 5, and 6.

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 2
Author: August Nemo
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 4979
Release: 2020-04-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 3968587170

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Mary Shelley - D. H. Lawrence - Ellis Parker Butler - Anthony Trollope - Zona Gale - Emma Orczy - Don Marquis - Charles W. Chesnutt - Kathleen Norris - Stanley G. Weinbaum - Honoré de Balzac - M. R. James - Banjo Paterson - Bret Harte - Henry Lawson - W. W. Jacobs - Charlotte M. Yonge - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - L. Frank Baum - O. Henry - William Dean Howells - T. S. Arthur - Sherwood Anderson - Robert Barr - Lafcadio Hearn - Giovanni Verga - Hamlin Garland - Émile Zola - Stewart Edward White - Sarah Orne Jewett - Willa Cather - George Ade - Robert W. Chambers - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Ruth McEnery Stuart - Lord Dunsany - George Gissing - Théophile Gautier - Paul Heyse - Selma Lagerlöf - Thomas Burke - Edith Nesbit - Arthur Morrison - Stacy Aumonier - John Galsworthy - E. W. Hornung - Ernest Bramah