Headline How the Marquis Got His Coat Back Гейман Нил

Many years ago, before the world bloomed in magnificent colors, the Earth lay stark and gray • The animals that graced its skies and roamed its lands were the colors of dirt, clay, and stone • until Rainbow descended to bestow her colors on the creatures of the world. Each bird asked for a bright and beautiful color: green for Parrot, red for Cardinal, and yellow for Canary. But will there be any colors left for little Gouldian Finch? He soon learns the power of patience and the beauty of all creatures • Based on a Belgian folktale, this beautifully told and illustrated tale is a timeless treasure for every collection • Retold by Annemarie Riley Guertin

Macmillan English Explorers is an exciting new reading programme developed specifically for children learning English in kindergartens and primary schools. Written with second language learners in mind, these books expose children to real language and develop their reading and vocabulary skills • Key features • - Stories have been written using high-frequency words, plus story-specific words which as far as possible are clarified by illustrations • - High-frequency words have been taken from the UK National Literacy Strategy and correlated with the Ladybird Key Words list and the words most commonly used by L1 children in their own writing • - Phonetically-regular words are included where they can be used in a meaningful and contextualized way, but not to the detriment of the storyline • - There are eight levels in the Macmillan English Explorers series, each consisting of several genres, including traditional tales, contemporary real-life stories, and comic characters

Рабочая тетрадь к каждой книге содержит задания на проверку понимания прочитанного, лексические упражнения, задания на формирование и развитие умений письменной речи – составление рецензии прочитанной книги и характеристики героев

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean

Grey Brooks is on a mission to save her career now that her long-running TV show is over. With the role of a lifetime on the line, she's desperate enough to agree to her publicist's scheme: fake a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob, who just happens to also need the publicity boost • Ethan Atkins just wants to be left alone. Between his high-profile divorce, his struggles with drinking, and his grief over the death of his longtime creative partner and best friend, he's slowly let himself fade into the background. But if he ever wants to produce the last movie he and his partner wrote together, Ethan needs to clean up his reputation and step back into the spotlight. A juicy affair with a gorgeous actress might be just the ticket, even if it's the last thing he wants to do

Behind every great king stands a queen. And behind every queen, the whole court watches on • Over the years of his reign, six different women took their place beside King Henry VIII of England as his wife and queen • But the real stories of the six Tudor queens belong to those who lived among them. Played out in glittering palaces and whispering courts, these are tales of the people who loved and served these women, and those who lied and betrayed them • Collected together for the first time, In the Shadow of Queens reveals thirteen startling stories from the Tudor court, told by those at the very heart of that world

Пожилая женщина находит Священный Грааль в сэконд-хэнде. Подобранный с улицы кот каждую ночь сражается с опасным противником, чтобы защитить своих новых хозяев от неописуемого зла. Молодоженам дарят подарок, который показывает альтернативную историю их брака. Эти и многие другие рассказы ждут вас в сборнике «Дым и зеркала» Нила Геймана – одного из самых талантливых писателей-фантастов нашего времени. В издание Headline Review вошли эксклюзивные дополнительные материалы • Книга на английском языке • An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage

Книга полностью на английском языке • Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...This title includes extra material exclusive to "Headline Review's" edition

Известие о смерти отца полностью меняет жизнь Чарли Нанси • Он понятия не имел, что его отец был трикстером Ананси – богом обмана и беспорядка. А еще он не знал, что у него есть брат • И в один прекрасный день этот брат объявился на пороге его дома. Теперь жизнь Чарли станет немного интересней…и намного опасней. Вместе сыновья Ананси покинут Лондон и отправятся во Флориду, на Карибы и даже в самое начало мироздания. Или в его конец – смотря с какой стороны посмотреть… • «Сыновья Ананси» – это роман Нила Геймана, действие которого происходит в мире «Американских богов» • Книга на английском языке • Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy, the South London boy so called by his father, the day his dad drops dead while doing karaoke. Charlie didn't know his estranged father was a god - Anansi the trickster, master of mischief and social disorder

Молодой Тристан Тор влюбился в прекрасную Викторию Форестер. Чтобы завоевать ее сердце, он пообещал найти для нее упавшую с неба звезду • Чтобы выполнить клятву, Тристан покинет родное Застенье и отправится в опасное и таинственное царство Фей… • Роман Нила Геймана «Звездная пыль» сильно отличается от других произведений автора и станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников его творчества. Роман лег в основу одноименного фильма 2007 года с Чарли Коксом в главной роли • Книга на английском языке • Young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and, to win her love, vows to bring her a star they see fall from the night sky • It is an oath that sends him over the town's ancient wall and into the mysterious land of Faerie - a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining

Известие о смерти отца полностью меняет жизнь Чарли Нанси • Он понятия не имел, что его отец был трикстером Ананси – богом обмана и беспорядка. А еще он не знал, что у него есть брат • И в один прекрасный день этот брат объявился на пороге его дома. Теперь жизнь Чарли станет немного интересней…и намного опасней. Вместе сыновья Ананси покинут Лондон и отправятся во Флориду, на Карибы и даже в самое начало мироздания. Или в его конец – смотря с какой стороны посмотреть… • Книга на английском языке • Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy, the South London boy so called by his father, the day his dad drops dead while doing karaoke • Charlie didn't know his estranged father was a god - Anansi the trickster, master of mischief and social disorder. He never knew he had a brother either

Антология «Все новые сказки» была собрана авторами бестселлеров Нилом Гейманом и Элом Саррантонио. Специально для нее были отобраны лучшие произведения в жанре хоррор и саспенс как от новых и уже известных авторов • Гейман и Саррантонио считают, что литературные произведения стоит делить не на жанры, а на реализм и художественный вымысел. Данная антология станет отличным подарком для любителей второй категории • Книга на английском языке • A hugely original anthology of imaginative fiction edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio • One hell of a huge book of great, exciting stories which will become a uniting force for readers of all forms of imaginative fiction • Rather than being dictated by genre, for co-editors Gaiman and Sarrantonio there is only one true distinction in fiction: the one dividing realistic and imaginative fiction