The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock

The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock
Author: Kenny Boyle
Publisher: Eye & Lightning Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2022-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1785633147

Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist? 'May well be the best book I've read in years' – Peter May An aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries to brighten her call-centre job by shoehorning as many long words as possible into conversations with customers. But her manager isn't amused by that and, after a public dressing-down, Wendy walks out. Jobless and depressed, she finds consolation in a surprise friendship with another disgruntled ex-colleague, wild-child painter Cat, who encourages her to live more dangerously. It's just what Wendy needs and it's also brilliant for her creative juices. But a black cloud is about to overshadow this new-found liberation, as well as to put Wendy on the wrong side of the law. Fresh, insightful and funny, as well as unflinchingly honest about the tougher side of life, Kenny Boyle's debut novel takes us deep into the psyche of a likeable misfit who treads a fine line between reality and fantasy – and just wants the world to see her true self.

Tick Tock Clock

Tick Tock Clock
Author: Margery Cuyler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780061363115

Tick tock, nine o’clock! The twins are ready for a day with Grandma. But is Grandma ready for them?

Clocks and More Clocks

Clocks and More Clocks
Author: Pat Hutchins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481410725

When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attic clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can't tell which of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!

Telling Time

Telling Time
Author: Jules Older
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1632899027

Telling time becomes clear and easy for young readers in this bright and lively introduction to measurements of time. From seconds to minutes, hours to days, exploring what time is and discovering why we need to tell time, helps young readers understand more than 'the big hand is on the one and the little hand is on the two'. Megan Halsey’s playful illustrations depict imaginative digital and analog clocks that range in design. With the help of a whole lot of clocks, a dash of humor, and a few familiar circumstances, learning to tell time is a lot of fun. It's about time.

The Child Thief

The Child Thief
Author: Brom
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061903175

The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.

Birthday Letters

Birthday Letters
Author: Ted Hughes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 213
Release: 1998
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374525811

The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of hisromance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.

Iridessa, Lost at Sea

Iridessa, Lost at Sea
Author: Lisa Papademetriou
Publisher: Random House Disney
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2009
Genre: Fairies
ISBN: 0736425527

Fairies Iridessa and Tinker Bell find themselves trapped inside a pirate's bottle, floating on the sea after their plans to use the bottle to scare away an owl go awry.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
Author: James Barrie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781986671934

"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever." "To die will be an awfully big adventure." "All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." "Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting." "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." "Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." "When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." "Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys." "Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time."

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Tick Tock, You’re Dead!

Tick Tock, You’re Dead!
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1995-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1925065987

B-O-R-I-N-G. That's how you'd describe your family vacation in New York City. Instead of visting all the cool spots, like Rockefeller Center and the Statue of Liberty, your parents drag you to a bunch of stupid museums. Then, at the Museum of Natural History something really strange happens. You accidentally get involved in a strange experiment that sends you traveling through time! Will you duel with knights at a medieval castle? Come face-to-face with a man-eating dinosaurs? Or take a ride through outer space? The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!