This “hauntingly atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), heart-stopping middle grade novel follows three of the Wolfskinder, German children left to fend for themselves in the final days of World War II, as they struggle to hold onto themselves and each other while surviving in the wild.Sometimes it’s good to be wild. Sometimes, you have to be.When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family must flee. Being caught by the Russians or the Americans would be the end for them. Liesl, Otto, and baby Mia’s father has already been captured, and they get separated from their mother in a blizzard after only a few days on the run.Liesl had promised Mama that she’d keep her brother and sister safe, no matter what. They’ll forage in the forests if they have to. Little do they know that there are hundreds of other parentless children doing the very same thing. And they far too quickly learn that, sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things.Dan
Find out what Santa's reindeers are going to do in this charming and Christmassy interactive lift-the flap board book.It's Christmas and Santa's reindeers are very busy. Look at what each reindeer is doing or holding and see if you can guess what they're about to do! Open the flap on each spread to discover the answer in a delightful, colourful scene.Bright, engaging artwork exploring familiar daily activities for babies and toddlers will bring this book to life, delighting readers young and old.With sturdy flaps to aid hand-eye co-ordination and a question on each page to prompt conversation between parent and child, this beautiful board book is the perfect introduction to the joy and magic of Christmas.This book is from the Lift-the-Flap series, a collection of fun and interactive board books for babies and toddlers. Other titles include What is Mummy Going to Do?, What is Daddy Going to Do?, What is Puppy Going to Do?, What is Chick Going to Do? and What is Baby Going to Do?
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together.In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
Now in a fantastic new global cover look; the third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny bestselling series. That didn’t really work, did it?Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny bestselling series. That didn’t really work, did it?If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are – and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick.If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about.Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book.
Take a journey from the distant past into a future to be imagined with this gorgeous debut picture book whose gradated pages reflect the passage of time.Hundreds of millions of years ago, land took shape. Millions of years ago, dinosaurs lived on Earth. Thousands of years ago, people built towering pyramids. Ten years ago, the landscape looked different. A month ago, it was still summer. A minute ago, the light was turned off. Now! Make a wish! What will you be doing in a week? How will you celebrate your birthday next year? What will you discover when you are older? What will hold you in awe forever? Moving inexorably from an age primeval into a future filled with questions, Johanna Schaible brings her beautiful collage artwork to an exploration of time that melds a conceptual vision with a physical one. With each page turn, the pages gradually become smaller―showing more and more borde
When planning for the future we often ask, "What will the economy be doing this time next year?" Or, "What will be different ten years from now?"But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable. Instead, we should be asking a different question:What will be the same ten years from now?What will be the same one hundred years from now?Knowledge of the things that never change is more useful, and more important, than an uncertain prediction of an unknowable future.In Same As Ever, bestselling author Morgan Housel shares 24 short stories about the ways that life, behaviour, and business will always be the same. Armed with this knowledge of the unchanging, you will have a powerful new ability to think about risk, opportunity, and how to navigate the uncertainty of the future. As you see familiar themes repeat again and again in the years ahead, you'll find yourself nodding and saying, "Yep, same as ever."
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog ManThey may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series.A MYSTERIOUS DOORWAY! (Sure, it’s in the grossest restaurant in the world, but that doesn’t make it any less mysterious. OK?) Behold! What lies beyond?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! NING!Hey, was that a CHAINSAW?! Let’s see if you can read and run at the same time... GO! It's the Bad Guys' next adventure!
Now a major motion picture!"I wish I'd had these books as a kid. Hilarious!" -- Dav Pilkey, creator of Captain Underpants and Dog Man They may look like Bad Guys, but these wannabe heroes are doing good deeds... whether you like it or not in this New York Times bestselling illustrated series. Forget what you know. This book changes everything. Someone’s found her voice and she has A LOT to tell you. Take a deep breath, hermano, it’s the 18th installment of THE BAD GUYS!
故事，讓人感動的同時，也學到人生的道理！【作者的話】官以甯 從小我就愛看繪本，我發現「故事」可以讓人在感動的同時學到各種人生的道理。除了當個讀者，我也想嘗試透過繪本與讀者溝通，分享自己的想法和領悟，並且用故事描寫大家在生活中遇到的困難，讓我們跟著主角一起學習與成長。 在本書中，我想傳達兩個想法——首先，真正展現我們人品的，更大程度是來自我們的選擇，遠多於我們的能力（It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.）；再者，不管他人怎麼看你，都不要停止做正確的事（Don't stop doing the right thing no matter how others think of you.）。 就像書中主角狐狸小橘面臨的處境，儘管牠善良又喜歡幫助別人，但不管牠做了多少好事，大家依然不相信，認為「狐狸都是壞蛋，所以小橘一定也是壞蛋」。 讓我們一起想想：小橘應該堅持善良的本性嗎？或是乾脆順著大家的成見，當個壞蛋算了？看完繪本，相信大家終於學會了：要用一個人的行為來判斷他的好壞，而不是看外表。而小橘也明白了：要堅持做對的事，因為決定我們未來的，是我們做的「選擇」。【爸爸的話】官振魁那個餵故事書長大的孩子…… 以甯是個用故事養大的孩子。受到汪培珽老師「餵故事書長大的孩子」啟發，當年還是新手爸媽的我們，從月子中心剛回家，就開始每天唸繪本給孩子聽，中英文繪本都唸。 爸爸的床前故事是每晚的重要儀式，上了小學演變成「DADA阿姨説故事」加爸爸唸《西遊記》。等到《西遊記》裡的妖精不再驚奇，「把拔，你自己編一個妖怪」——我們家的私房西遊記於焉登場，每晚準時上演。 即使出差國外網路訊號不好，向客戶告罪一聲後，我們有請孫大聖在越洋電話中克服難關，讓寶貝女兒可以安然入睡——雖然被安慰更多的，是説故事的爸爸。幾年下來，唐三藏師徒額外收服了超過一千位妖怪，「西天」成為遙不可及的夢想，而「故事」也成為我們家的重要夥伴。 一如預期的，孩子飛快地長大了；有點出乎意料的，這個用故事養大的孩子，現在想把自己創作的故事分享給其他的孩子。 這次，那一千個妖怪跟我們夫妻，拉張板凳坐下，一起靜靜欣賞……
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