Creator: Helena Bonham Carter
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1993-11-04
Price: $48.05
Review The Secret Garden (Penguin Audiobooks Children's Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Edition: Bk&Csts&Gd
Publication date: 1986-05
Price: $27.98
Review Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub / Listening Library:Hobie Hanson knows that the sounds coming from across the hall can mean only one thing: 4A has a substitute teacher. And she's sinking fast. Hobie's certain 4B will never be so lucky. Their regular fourth grade teacher, Mr. Star, is as healthy as a horse. The very next day, though, Mr. Star rushes out of the room - "indisposed," the principal says - and Hobie and his classmates hear "s-u-b". They are prepared. No stranger could possibly withstand the volley from their vast arsenal of sub sinkers. Except, perhaps, Miss Ivanovitch. [+]It soon becomes clear that it might not be the sub who sinks - this time, it might just be the students.
Creator: Ralph Mowat
Publication date: 2003-11-13
Price: $46.49
Review The Jungle Book: 700 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) / Oxford University Press:In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.
Publication date: 1986-06
Price: $5.95
Review Other Way to Listen / Southwest Series:When you know "the other way to listen," you can hear wildflower seeds burst open, you can hear the rocks murmuring, and the hills singing, and it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Of course it takes a lot of practice, and you can't be in a hurry. In fact, most people never hear those things at all, but this book tells you about two people who did - one who was very good at it and one who took a long time learning. As in their other books, Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall bring us close to the essence of the natural world. Thanks to their unique talents, their books are for us the experience about which they write and draw.
Publication date: 1981-01-01
Dewey code: 300
List Price: $10.50
Price: $47.50
Review MATHILDE MOUSE STORY SILENT AU / HarperCollins:
Creator: Christopher Lane
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2007-09-18
List Price: $74.25
Price: $46.99
Review Alex and the Ironic Gentleman / Brilliance Audio Unabridged Lib Ed:Often mistaken for a boy because of her haircut and name, Alex Morningside is an inquisitive girl of ten-and-a-half who attends the prestigious Wigpowder-Steele Academy. Unfortunately, though she loves to learn, Alex just can’t bring herself to enjoy her classes. Her teachers are all old and smelly and don’t seem to know about anything that has happened in the world the past thirty years, and her peers…well they are quite simply ridiculous. Luckily for Alex, the new school year brings an exciting new teacher. Mr. Underwood makes lessons fun and teaches her how to fence. But Mr. Underwood has a mysterious family secret - the swashbuckling and buried treasure kind - and not everyone is glad he has come to Wigpowder-Steele. When the infamous pirates of a ship called the Ironic Gentleman kidnap Mr. Underwood, Alex sets off on a journey to rescue him, along the way encountering a cast of strange and magical characters, including the dashing and sometimes heroic Captain Magnanimous, Coriander the Conjurer, the Extremely Ginormous Octopus, and the wicked Daughters of the Founding Fathers’ Preservation Society.
Creator: Emilia Fox
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Price: $46.90
Review Witch Child / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:'This is a powerful, absorbing and unusual novel' - "The Bookseller". 'The sort of historical novel eleven and twelve year olds will gobble up at a sitting' - Nina Bawden. When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days - paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity and once more she finds herself having to make important choices to ensure her survival. With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees, that is utterly engrossing from start to finish. During the witch hunts of the mid-1600s, many young Englishwomen died on the gallows, innocent victims of false or hysterical accusations of witchcraft. But what of those women who actually claimed the name "witch" as their own? In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it is like to live in a climate of mistrust and piety in which differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan. With a sure hand, she describes her beloved grandmother's trial and hanging as a witch, her own rescue by a mysterious noblewoman, and her eventual passage to the New World and the forest settlement of Beulah. [+]There Mary falls under a curtain of suspicion when she willingly chooses to explore the dark woods shunned by the fearful colonists and makes friends with some of the spiritual native people. When several girls in the community begin to shriek and swoon, and the same minister who damned Mary's grandmother comes to search for signs of witchcraft, Mary is subjected to close and deadly scrutiny. Breaking with most historical fiction about witchcraft (such as Elizabeth Speare's The Witch of Blackbird Pond), British author Celia Rees raises the stakes and the tension by placing a real witch at the center of her story. Witch Child is an engrossing, suspenseful novel that will cast a spell over both readers of historical fiction and fans of witchcraft series from Circle of Three to Sweep. -Jennifer Hubert.
Creator: Teresa Mlawer
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 2007-10-30
List Price: $45.95
Price: $45.95
Review Julius, El Rey De La Casa / Julius, the Baby of the World / Live Oak Media:
Publication date: 1988-03-12
Dewey code: 567.91
Price: $6.99
Review DINOSAUR DAYS-PKG (Step Into Reading Library/Audio Cassette and Book) / Random House Books for Young Readers:Illus. in full color. Difficult dinosaur names are simplified with phonics. .
Creator: George Irving
Publication date: 1991-08
Dewey code: 817
Price: $16.99
Review Real Ponies Don't Go Oink / DH Audio:"True-life" tales of man against nature in a collection sure to entertain the most hard-to-please listener. 2 cassettes.
Creator: Sandy Duncan
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-10
Price: $25.00
Review Peter Pan / New Millennium Audio:This ageless classic by J. M. Barrie is performed by Sandy Duncan, who played the title role on stage. Children and adults will be swept away to Neverland and the world of pirates, mermaids, and Wendy and the Lost Boys. Peter Pan, that swashbuckling hero, with help from Tinkerbell, fights Captain hook and restores normalcy to the mythical land.
Publication date: 1996-12
List Price: $27.00
Price: $46.31
Review Weather/Jungle Animals, Farm Animals/Outerspace, Dogs & Cats/Bugs: Learn About Activity Songs (Watch Me Grow Series) / Cheviot Corp-Audio:
Publication date: 1996-01-01
Dewey code: 372
Price: $17.95
Review Rainbow Recorder Course Level 1 Starter book cassette (Rainbow Recorder Course) / Cambridge University Press:A new primary graded recorder course with creative music-making from the very beginning. Clear, simple presentation with lots of lively full colour illustrations; motivating thematic material with emphasis on the lower levels; ideal for classroom or home use. There are 4 levels, each consisting of a Starter Book with accompanying cassette, with one Teacher's Book to cover all levels.
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 1999-01
Price: $9.99
Review The Musical Donkey (Karadi Tales) (Karadi Tales) / Hushion House Publishing Ltd.:Audio read-along books for children based on the ancient South Asian Panchatantra and Jataka stories, precursors to Aesop's fables. The narration by renowned South Asian actors in English is highly entertaining. The books are illustrated with cuddly characters in vibrant colors. Children can sing along with the jungle music. Several songs are presented in a world music format, concluding with a key take home message. A glossary of key words and pronunciations, special background information and a learning guide accompanies each title. Produced by Sky Music (India), a corporation led by educators and musicians trained in special education and world music. Join Karadi the bear as he tells the story of Dhondu the donkey. Learn that false pride can land you in big trouble. Dhondu, while eating merrily in the cucumber patch, decides to sing at the top of his voice and despite Juno the jackal's warning, the villagers hear the awful sound and come armed with sticks and stones. [+]One full colour soft bound 22-page book, one 22-minute audio tape, lyrics to the songs, and a special learning insert. Narrated by Saeed Jaffrey.
Creator: Jr. Douglas Fairbanks
Publication date: 1970-04
Price: $9.95
Review Kidnapped / Caedmon:Set mainly in the Scottish Highlands in the years following the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, this story follows the fortunes of the young David Balfour as he endeavours to claim the inheritance of which he has been cheated by his scheming Uncle Ebenezer.
Publication date: 1985-06
List Price: $64.00
Price: $46.72
Review Gullivers Travels / Books on Tape:Introduction and Commentaries by Richard Quintana
Creator: Jamie Glover
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-06
List Price: $49.95
Price: $49.95
Review Shadow of the Minotaur / Chivers North America:Alan Gibbons takes us into Greek mythology in most exciting way with a powerful novel about a present-day boy, Phoenix, the son of a computer geek who creates a virtual reality game that gets a bit too real. In playing the game, Phoenix becomes Theseus pursued by the Minotaur, becomes Perseus and confronts the Gorgon, and goes down into the Underworld with Orpheus. His terrifying adventures are interwoven with the difficult reality of his life at home and at his new school. As always, Alan Gibbons writes with extraordinary understanding about contemporary children - but this time moves on to an action-packed and thrillingly dangerous story of fantasy worlds.
Run time: 60 min.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1997
Review Into English!: A Rainbow of Children; Changing Times (1997 Publishing) / Hampton Brown:Track Listing: 1. I Like Me; 2. My Senses; 3. Things I Like; 4. Mealtime Rhyme; 5. Rainbow Colors; 6. Who Has Blue On?; 7. 'Cause I'm Big; 8. I Can; 9. Five Tiny Tadpoles; 10. [+]Caterpillar Caterpillar; 11. Song of the Seasons; 12. Rain Rain Go Away. Published 1997 by Hampton Brown. Limited Edition Red Audio Cassette Tape.
Publication date: 1993-01-28
Price: $46.49
Review One-way Ticket: 400 Headwords: Short Stories (Oxford Bookworms Library) / Oxford University Press:Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-04
Price: $48.00
Review The Wreckers / Recorded Books:A swashbuckling thriller, part one of THE HIGH SEAS TRILOGY, set on the oceans of the eighteenth century - drama, horror, adventure. It is 1799. John Spencer is fourteen when his father's ship, the ill-fated Isle of Skye, is shipwrecked on the coast of Cornwall as she makes for her home port. John survives the disaster, but soon learns to his horror that the villagers are not rescuers but wreckers - pirates who lure ships ashore in order to plunder their cargo. When John discovers that his father is alive but being held prisoner, he must try and rescue him - without knowing who can be trusted to help.
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