Viking Children's Books (4 knihy )
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Roald Dahl D Is for Dahl ENFrom Aardvark to Zipfizzing, this is an alphabetical guide to everything you ever needed to know about one of Britain's best-loved children's writers. It is packed with fascinating and completely unnecessary facts about Dahl's life, books and family.
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Nikita Lalwani Gifted ENRumi Vashey is ten years, two months, thirteen days, two hours, forty-two minutes and six seconds old. The probability of her walking home from school with John Kemble is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy frock and thick woollen tights she is forced to wear by her father. For Rumi is a gifted child and, as her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family is to have any hope of making its…
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Nick Hornby Juliet, Naked ENAnnie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in Duncan's case, an obsession rather than an interest) is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release', a terrible demo of his most famous album, it's the last straw - Duncan cheats on her and she promptly throws him out. Via an…