Box For Children

Hier steckt das Allerbeste, Lustigste, Abenteuerlichste und sowieso Tollste vom kleinen Nick, seiner Familie und seinen Freunden...

When 11-year-old Edie Winter finds a mysterious box on the London Underground, she's amazed to discover that it's home to a family of Flits—tiny winged people. But Impy, Speckle and Nid need Edie's help. Not only do they need supplies (rice crispies, sugar sprinkles, digestive biscuits and raisins) and someone to look after them, but their brother Jot has run away and they need Edie's help to find him.

Dr. Gideon Box, world-famous surgeon, is extremely good at his job. He’s never lost a patient…but he has issues. He’s antisocial. Doesn’t mix well with others. Breaks into people’s homes and assumes their identities. Occasionally kills other doctor’s patients. He’s had bad luck with women his entire life. Big surprise, right? His psychiatrist tells him to join a dating service. Tells him to seek women from small towns. Says they’ll possess basic core values, be less shallow and self-centered than the hookers and strippers he’s been dating.

When the abduction of a nine-year-old child sends a small town into a frenzy, Detective Sally Lawson is tasked with finding the person responsible. But when evidence points to a janitor employed at the museum where the child was the last seen, Lawson isn’t sure they’ve caught the right man. Desperate to solve the case before another child disappears, Detective Lawson must uncover the truth before worried parents bring the town to the brink of chaos.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, composer, essayist, and adventure writer. "The Silverado Squatters" is a travelogue of his honeymoon in the Napa Valley. "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879), one of his earliest published works, is considered a milestone of outdoor literature. The short story "A Lodging for the Night" (1877) was Stevenson's first published fiction, at the age of 27, while Kidnapped (1886) is an historical novel set in 18th-century Scotland, about the Appin Murder.

¿Qué harías tu si encontraras unos huevos en tu cajón de arena? ¡Unete a Margarita cuando le pasa esto mismo! Ella decide convertirse en una niñera de tortugas para ayudar a los bebes terrapin diamantes. Ella los observa salir de sus huevos y luego los cría hasta que ellos se pueden defender por si mismos. Con la ayuda de los expertos, ella los deja ir en la bahía de donde pertenecen.

Is your daughter ready for puberty? Let her discover everything she needs to know ahead of time, and in the privacy of her own room.

Do you feel stuck within your ministry – like you’re trapped in a cycle doing the same things over and over again without seeing new results? Are you looking for new ways to realize the collaborative potential of your team? Then it’s time to climb out of that box you’re in and move into new spaces of creativity and innovation! You already have the ability to express yourself creatively – you just need to unbind that which is hindering you from realizing your full potential! Within these pages, you’ll unpack common myths about creativity, learn how to overcome roadblocks that ...

Discover facts and opinions about UFOs, Bigfoot, mysterious creatures, mysterious places, and mysterious people. Did you know that a US Air Force base commander reported seeing a UFO with some of his men and recorded the incident on tape? Did you know that the public information officer at Roswell Air Force Base admitted he had seen alien bodies from the 1947 Roswell crash before he died in 2005? Did you know that a president of the US wrote about a Bigfoot encounter?

This delightful audiobook - one of Amazon's 2019 Holiday Gift Picks and Most Anticipated Books - is designed to start conversations with kids about generosity. In the tradition of Goodnight Gorilla, the words are intentionally spare. The audiobook is meant to be listened to interactively, with adults posing questions so kids can guess what's happening (and why). Praised by both parents and teachers for sparking imagination and eliciting discussion, the story can be interpreted differently in every family, by every child, and reinterpreted many times over.

When siblings Ava and Luke discover a mysterious notebook in their dad’s attic they are instantly intrigued. And, as they read through letters, diary entries, newspaper cuttings and notarised secret recordings, they realise that a decades-old, still unsolved, murder case is unfolding right in front of them . . .

On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough. Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve’s diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, set out to embrace this new reality. But will my plan to start an amateur honesty box business from our tiny Devon village be the catalyst to bring us together, or drive us further apart?

After Siloé and her half-brothers unexpectedly entered the Hexaworld, Nola learned a lot about her mother and the history of Pandorient. But the unanswered questions multiply when she discovers a strange key at home. What could it possibly open?

Wie war das eigentlich, als der Weihnachtsmann noch ein ganz normaler Junge war? Wie lebt es sich im Wichtelreich? Und können Rentiere tatsächlich vom Himmel fallen? Die Geschichte vom kleinen Nikolaus, der eine ganz besondere Mütze findet und nie wieder absetzt, vom Waisenmädchen Amelia, die viele sehnliche Wünsche an den Weihnachtsmann hat und von Miika, der Weihnachtsmaus, schenken der ganzen Familie herzerwärmende Weihnachtsmomente.

Hi! My name is Janie Ray, and I'm 11 years old. When I first got this diary from my mom, I didn't think I'd have all that much to write about. I mean, let's face it - fifth grade isn't exactly the most exciting thing in the world. But then, really strange things started happening. Like last week, my best friend Sheila and I were hanging out in our clubhouse, drinking lemonade and trying to figure out what to do about Marcia the Snob, when we suddenly noticed a weird inscription on this old medallion I found when I was little.

Drei Englisch-Abenteuer des kleinen Drachen Kokosnuss jetzt in einer Box! Basierend auf Ingo Siegners gleichnamigen Büchern "Der kleine Drache Kokosnuss kommt in die Schule", "Hab keine Angst!" und "Schulausflug ins Abenteuer" vermitteln Native Speaker Robert Metcalf und Kokosnuss-Stimme Philipp Schepmann den jungen Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern einen ersten Einstieg in die englische Sprache. Jedes Hörbuch erzählt ein spannendes Kokosnuss-Abenteuer, in das drei Sprach-Lektionen und eine Wiederholungslektion eingebettet sind.

Eve is an inquisitive baby rat who regularly escapes from her cage. One night she meets a strange creature in a glass tank across the room - a boa constrictor named Malachi. The snake is amused by Eve's questions, and he awes her with stories of the wilds where he was caught. What will happen to their fragile friendship when Eve discovers what Malachi eats? Can they devise a solution that will save both Malachi and Eve's family of rats? This is the complete 6-audiobook set of the Eve and Malachi series.

Los hermanos Alden visitan el rancho viejo y venido a menos de su misteriosa tia Jane...¡Y pronto hacen un sorprendente descubrimiento!

"He had been created to replace a lost son. His face was made of porcelain and burnt clay formed his spine. The lips were painted on and showed a never-changing smile, while twisted copper wire held his body together. When the artificial boy looked down he could see through the gaps between the coils. There, deep down inside him, was a living thing - a fleeting flutter, visible for only one moment at a time. His creator called him Felix." In three interconnected short stories, Felix searches for the truth about how he came to be alive. He meets a strange butterfly catcher, a terrifying ...

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.