TINYBOY AND OTHER STORIES - An Adventure in a Garden

TINYBOY AND OTHER STORIES - An Adventure in a Garden
Author: Anon E. Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-12-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 234 In this 234th ÿissue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of Tinyboy who lives in a garden full of beautiful flowers. Tinyboy lives in a big red poppy, and it was a very pretty house. In the day-time the bees and butterflies came to see him; at night, when the poppy shut its petals, he crept down into the seed-box and slept in his warm blankets. One day Tinyboy sat on his doorstep, kicking his heels complaining about how lonely he is because everyone is so busy doing other things, like pollinating flowers. But the Big Red Butterfly feels sorry for him and offers him a ride. So Tinyboy jumps on and off they go on an adventure. What was the adventure you ask? Well you?ll just have to download and read the story to find out the names of the new friends Tinyboy makes on his adventure around the garden and exactly what the Big Red Butterfly and Tinyboy got up to. Also, read about the Scarlet Poppy and California Poppy, cousins to the Big Red Poppy which Tinyboy lives in. 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps. Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories

The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2002-08-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780521294300

These thirteen short stories were written between 1924 and 1928. Eleven were collected in The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), though 'The Man Who Loved Islands' appeared in the American edition only and the other two in The Lovely Lady (1933). An unpublished fragment 'A Pure Witch' is also included.

My Side of the Mountain

My Side of the Mountain
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2001-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593115007

"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Max and the Millions

Max and the Millions
Author: Ross Montgomery
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524718866

In the vein of The Borrowers and The Indian in the Cupboard, this is an imaginative, irresistible, and incredible exploration into what happens when one boy discovers a kingdom of tiny people. The day before summer vacation, Max's closest friend at boarding school disappears, leaving behind his amazing model collection and a handful of sand on his bedroom floor. Like Max, the eccentric janitor Mr. Darrow is a genius at building tiny models. Eight weeks later, Max finds that the sand has magically transformed into a whole desert kingdom--filled with millions of tiny people! Max wears hearing aids, and they allow him to hear the ant-sized people. There's a boy named Luke who's about to become king. But when Max appears, he plunges their world into chaos. Luckily, Luke has two strong allies: Ivy, a fearless girl, and Luke's trusty steed--a flea. While Max and his new friend Sasha fight to protect the Floor from their evil headmaster, Luke must fight to save it from being destroyed by all-out war.

The Adventures of Tom Thumb

The Adventures of Tom Thumb
Author: Marianna Mayer
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-08-01
Genre: Body size
ISBN: 9781587170652

A tiny boy has adventures in a cow's mouth, a fish's belly, and the stomach of a giant.

Nory Ryan's Song

Nory Ryan's Song
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307538982

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.

Immortal Lycanthropes

Immortal Lycanthropes
Author: Hal Johnson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547751966

A wildly entertaining novel about a young man who discovers that he is part of a secret society of immortal were-creatures bent on hunting one another into extinction. Illustrations.

The Fabulous Flight

The Fabulous Flight
Author: Robert Lawson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486829782

In this charmingly illustrated fantasy, a 4-inch-high boy climbs on the back of a friendly seagull and heads for Europe to quash a mad scientist's evil plan and do some sightseeing.