Harpercollins The Swiss Family Robinson Wyss Johann

После дикого и бушующего шторма швейцарская семья Робинзонов оказалась выброшенной на берег в море. Но грохочущие волны унесли их на тропический остров, где их ждет новая жизнь. Их корабль нагружен припасами, а остров битком набит сокровищами, так что они вскоре приспосабливаются и каждый день открывают для себя новые опасности и наслаждения • Немного сокращено для Puffin Classics • Книга на английском языке • Introduced by America's first children's laureate and bestselling author, Jon Scieszka • Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new dangers and delights every day

Швейцарская семья Робинзонов - классическая повесть Йоханна Висса. Когда швейцарская семья, потерпев кораблекрушение, оказывается на тропическом острове, им приходится строить новую жизнь с нуля. Следите за их захватывающими приключениями: как они приручают страуса, сражаются с гигантской змеей и строят невероятный дом на дереве • Книга на английском языке • When a Swiss family find themselves shipwrecked on a tropical island they have to build a new life from scratch. Follow their thrilling adventures as they tame an ostrich, fight a giant snake, and construct an incredible tree-house home • This edition is based on William Godwin's much-loved 1816 translation of Johann David Wyss' classic story. It also includes beautiful illustrations by the Victorian artist, Joseph Finnemore

The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front • Rose, Clover and Daisy are the pretty blond sisters of the Harrison family, living with their parents and two brothers, and working in East London and the outbreak of WWII. Rose the eldest is a nurse working in Homerton Hospital, she despairs of her younger siblings and their occasional less sensible attitudes to life • Clover is the handful of the family and whenever there’s trouble she isn’t far away. At the first chance she gets, she volunteers for the Auxiliary Service, but things go far from smoothly. Daisy is the baby of the family, but she doesn’t want to be treated like a child anymore and is determined to grow up, whether her family like it or not

Мог - любимый кот всей семьи! Приходите поиграть с Мог и ее семьей в восхитительной настольной книге "Кошачье семейство Мог", идеально подходящей для ее самых маленьких поклонников • От Джудит Керр, создательницы "Тигра, который пришел на чай" и "Мога, забывчивого кота" выходит восхитительная настольная книга-приключение о действительно замечательном коте • Мог живет с семьей Томас, но у нее еще одна большая семья, которые все живут в разных местах - приходите и познакомьтесь с ними всеми! • Книга на английском языке • Mog is everyone's favourite family cat! Come play with Mog and her family in this delightful cased board book perfect for her youngest fans • From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful board book adventure about a really remarkable cat! • Mog lives with the Thomas family, but she another big family who all live in different places - come and meet them all! • Young children will delight in spotting familiar objects and activities in this wonderful board book, perfect for Mog's youngest fans • Mog the Forgetful Cat was first published more than fifty years ago, and Mog has been delighting children all over the world with her adventures ever since

One family • Generations of secrets • It's time to escape to the chateau • Elise is a true daughter of the chateau. She'd die before anything happened to Sainte Madeleine - even if it means betraying her own family • Alexandre, Elise's brother, is destined to inherit - yet a dangerous rift with their father puts his future, and the chateau, in jeopardy • And for distant cousin Laurent, his life-long love for Elise will always call him back to Sainte Madeleine • But the peace of Europe rests on a knife-edge, and history has bigger plans than them all. Through love and war, danger and deceit, can the chateau - and the Salignac family - weather the storm?

More than a decade since her bestselling novel, The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar continues Bhima’s unforgettable story in this stunning sequel • Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India • Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired

It’s 1923 and at Thistlecrook House, a forbidding home on the Scottish border, the roaring twenties seem not to have arrived. But Simon Christie has – a young man who can’t believe his luck when he gets a job cataloguing the infamous art collection of the Mordrake family. Yet from the moment he gets off the train at the deserted village station he can’t shift a headache and a sense that there’s more to the House and its gruesome selection of pictures • Simon’s host is glad of his company, but he gets the feeling the house is not so welcoming. As his questions about the Mordrakes grow, he finds answers in surprising places. But someone is not pleased that old secrets are stirring • As night falls each evening, and a growing sense of unease roils in the shifting shadows around him, Simon must decide what he can trust and ask if he can believe what he sees in the dusk or if his mind is poisoned by what has happened before in this place between lands, between light and dark

"Приключения Паддингтона. Летние игры" - фантастическая новая книжка Майкла Бонда с картинками Паддингтона о спортивном дне семьи Браун, основанная на телесериале "Приключения Паддингтона"! • Когда Брауны обнаруживают в сарае коробку с садовыми играми, Паддингтону не терпится попробовать. Мистер Браун полон решимости побеждать в каждой игре, но кто станет чемпионом летних игр? • Книга на английском языке • A fantastic new Paddington picture book about the Brown family’s sports day based on the TV series The Adventures of Paddington! • When the Browns discover a box of garden games in the shed Paddington can’t wait to have a go. Mr Brown is determined to win every game but who will be the summer games champion? • A delightful new Paddington picture book that teaches children that taking part is more important that winning

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in fact born Fritz Brandes. And it was only after his father’s death in 2004 that Peter was able to begin to piece together the family’s story and set out on the journey – literally and figuratively – that forms the basis of his book • Peter’s family were German Jews. In 1938, his father was imprisoned in Buchenwald in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. He was released the following spring when he was granted a visa to settle temporarily in the UK. He arrived in London in May 1939, aged 24, penniless and alone

The Burpee Bears are back in this glorious new picture book from #1 bestselling author Joe Wicks! • For this bear family, every day is a new day: a day for adventure and discovery, and true to Joe’s ethos, each book will feature a fun and positive story with added exercises and recipes – perfect for families to share and enjoy together! • The Burpee Bears is the first book in the series and is infused with Joe’s signature sense of fun. Join the bears as they explore the everyday ups and downs of family life. Children will fall in love with the Burpee Bear characters; they bring a little bit of Wicks magic and a whole lot of Joe energy to each and every page. The Burpee Bears will delight and engage children as they read, laugh and leap into action! • Created by Joe, with the story co-written with acclaimed author Vivian French, and gloriously illustrated by stellar artist Paul Howard

The third volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, in which Conn Iggulden brilliantly interweaves history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal • The Gates of Rome, The Death of Kings and now The Field of Swords tell the powerful, dramatic story of the friendship and enmity between the two men who ruled the Roman world • Following the defeat of the Spartacus rebellion, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who have been sent to run the Roman colonies in Spain, return to challenge powerful senators to become one of the Consuls of Rome. Political opposition, family quarrels, armed rebellions and corruption make this a highly contemporary scene, fuelled by the intrigue of the major characters, who are now developing as full adults