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• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/04/1998

* INTERNATIONAL BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD WINNER 1996 * SMARTIES BOOK PRIZE CATEGORY WINNER 1996 * KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL SHORTLIST TITLE 1996 'Missing: a speedy little clown with carroty fingers, blue and white trainers, a green peaked cap and saucer shaped eyes. Have you seen him anywhere?' ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 17/02/1994

When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/02/2013

A brilliant detective story for readers of 10+, from the screenwriters of X Men First Class and Thor. A must-read for anyone who loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. 'Fans of John Green and Sarah Dessen will like this book very much' Publishers WeeklyColin Fischer is 14 and he has Asperger's. A lot of the world is a mystery ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 26/02/2015

'Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...' Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 28 Jun 2012

'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all foreigners have such polite manners, one catches something of it' The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve aroun ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated h ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/05/2013

Side by side on the sand sat two eggs. With a crack and a rip, the brothers hatch, and out comes a bird and a...crocodile! But they can't be brothers - can they? ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/05/2012

Side by side on the sand sat two eggs. With a crack and a rip, the brothers hatch, and out comes a bird and a ...crocodile! But they can't be brothers - can they? ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 02/06/2005

Welcome to the world of Connie Pickles. Best Friend #1 - Julie: Big boobs. Big ideas. Big fibber. Best Friend #2 - William: Giver of chocolate buttons. A shoulder for Connie to cry on. Makes other girls flutter and blush. Best Friend #3 - Delilah: hormone-crazed victim of a girls-only school. Flutters and blushes A LOT. Mother: French. Beautiful. Broke. Bra-e ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/03/2018

After the fall After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he's so afraid of heights, he can't even bear to climb onto his bed, or reach his favourite cereal on the top shelf at the supermarket. But one day, fuelled by his passion for bird-watching, he decides to conquer his fears and something amazing happens...& ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 31 May 2012

'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance set beforehand. I seem to see all that can be - and I am tired and sick of it. And the world is all confusion to me' Poised at a roulette table, prepared to throw away a small fortune, Gwendolen Harleth fascinates Daniel Deronda. But their lives depart drastically, as the ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/05/2016

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful storie ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 25/01/2018

Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had.All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little bit.So one day, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot that will give the old blue-faced ba ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/03/2016

'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must face pirates, rivals and the confusion of their own feelings to find true love.& ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 22/02/2018

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The ... more