Résultats pour "The Stranger" dans Fiction sur les animaux

Bundle up for a cozy classic. In this gentle, old-fashioned tale for very little folk, best friends Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear share a snug cottage, a double-runner sled, and the kind of everyday adventures that make childhood sparkle. When winter’s first snow arrives, plans for coasting give way to...

The Allen family loves their many pets, and they’re excited to adopt just one more - Henry, the bull-terrier. But why are dangerous men after him? He’s not telling, and the other pets must find out before someone in the family gets hurt: Why is Henry angry about being adopted? Can a dachshund actually concentrate for more than two minutes? What do Henry’s stalkers really want? Can a cat’s natural stubbornness foil a dastardly scheme of kidnapping and robbery?

Nothing bad has ever happened in the Green Forest, until now. When a mysterious stranger moves in and rabbits begin to disappear, the residents grow fearful.

‘Proper funny cartooning - I love it’ – Jim Smith author of My Big Fat Poo Diary ‘So much charm it’s impossible to resist’ – Huw Aaron, author of UnFairies ‘The fun never stops in Chicken Hill!’ – Sheena Dempsey, author of Pablo and Splash Welcome to Chicken Hill: join Ferdy...

L.M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this volume, a strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who escaped from the London Zoo.

Emily is a mad scientist, a cat lover, a mural painter, a golem builder, a virtuo-spastic guitarist, a wicked skater, a wily troublemaker, a poltergeist tamer, a mystery solver, a master prankster, an extreme procrastinator, a happy loner, and a unique individual. And now there are two of her.

Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lint, lentils, and safety pins; or rocking out on drums/ guitar/ saxophone/ zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast.... and pointing and laughing.

In book 9, Tiffin the monkey finds himself tricked out of the food he’s been gathering in the forest. When he sees an otter being tricked in the same way, he wants to stop the thieves but knows this might put him in grave danger.