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• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 04/06/2012

'No one has ever come out alive'. Hal and Roger Hunt crash-land into the middle of a pioneering expedition to the unmapped regions of the greatest jungle on earth: the Amazon. And when their mission to explore the uncharted territory of the Pastaza River goes off course ...it's the survival of the fittest. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 2021

Middle School 4Middle School Field Trip FiascoMiddle School Master of DisasterMiddle School From Hero To ZeroMiddle School Born to Rock ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 01/09/1999

Come one, come all, come to the zoo! One elephant, two hippos, three giraffes, four lions . . . Join Eric Carle's delightful animal train on its way to the zoo as you count the animals one by one, all the way up to ten brightly coloured birds! A richly satisfying introduction to numbers and counting. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 29/10/1992

Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This book was first published in 1846. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/08/2008

Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers.Here is a very special collection to be treasured for ever. & ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 29/10/1992

Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death. ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 21/08/2014

Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as an outstanding example of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse. We are delighted to announce the republication of this fine facsimile edition. Featuring the superb illustrations of Charles Robinson, and in ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/09/2006

Spike Milligan's publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. Spike did not regard children as small ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/11/2014

A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first published in December 1843. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions and is today the most fam ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 04/08/2016

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Chr ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07/08/2008

A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas time must-read. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and future, Scrooge learns to love Chr ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 06/10/1994

The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost, was an immediate success and has remainded so eve ... more

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

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pen ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 03/07/2014

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. Philippa Pearce's poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.In A DOG SO SMALL young Ben Blewitt is  ... more

• Editura: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Data publicatie:: 07 Feb 2002

Originally published in 1967, Ngugi's third novel is his best known and most ambitious work. A Grain of Wheat portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the action follows the village's arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a novel of stories within stories, a nar ... more