Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters.
Talking animals, imperiled princesses, clever cowherds, and other intriguing characters populate this engaging collection of authentic Chinese fairy tales. Among them are a wide variety of fables, legends of the gods, ghost stories, myths, and more.
In it, Mary Lennox, an overindulged child suddenly orphaned, is almost magically transformed into an agreeable child when she comes to live at Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy Yorkshire estate owned by her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven.
Generations of children and adults have delighted in the whimsical poems of Edward Lear. And, despite his achievements as a noted English landscape painter and illustrator of animal life, Lear today is known for his delightful volumes of nonsense verse.
The Cuthberts had decided to adopt an orphan - a nice sturdy boy to help with the farm chores. The orphanage sent a girl instead - a mischievous, talkative redhead who'd be no use at all.
Show the world that you take no prisoners with ten colorful tattoos, including the Jolly Roger, a mighty galleon under full sail, cutlass-wielding cutthroats (with and without parrots), and other piratical images.
You won't need any messy paints, dyes, and other coloring aids to decorate Easter eggs because this colorful little sticker collection will do the job.
Ten realistic renderings of popular dinosaurs include images of the three-horned triceratops, the stegosaurus and its bony plates, the spiky styracosaurus, and the fearsome king of them all, tyrannosaurus.
