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Jethro is a little pony who feels useless, because all the other horses at Peter's Pony Farm are ridden every day, but no one wants to ride him. The other animals, Chicken, Lamb and Cow, all tell him that he is special, but Jethro disagrees and has little self-esteem. Until one day, a little neighbour girl named Jennifer starts to visit him. Peter, the owner of the pony farm, asks if she wants to ride Jethro, and he finally gets ridden! Then other children want to ride Jethro too and he realises that he is special after all. The idea for this story came when co-author Glynis Bloomfield saw a pony on a cold, wet day looking sad and alone in a paddock. After her granddaughter, Tiana Torres-Thomas, visited a pony farm, You ARE Special, Jethro! was born. This is Tiana's first book and Glynis' fifth book.
In this fun little picture story book set in Australia, young Molly-May can’t find anyone to play with. Each day she gets up early and asks someone to play, but always ends up playing by herself. She asks her cousin and then various animals. She approaches a koala, a cassowary, a possum, and a lorikeet, but no one wants to play. On Saturday, everyone agrees to play and they have a lot of fun together. But on Sunday, when the others want to play, Molly-May is tired and she sleeps in and doesn’t want to get out of bed!
Jake is a nine-year-old boy who lives in a small town in Australia. Recuperating at home with a broken leg, he is feeling lonely and bored. Then he remembers his old friend, Chadwick, a friendly elf. With his round and cheery yellow face, protruding pointy ears and colourful Aussie clothes, Chadwick makes for an unforgettable sight!Chadwick reminds Jake of the magic purple powder that Jake was given by a strange woman down the street. When he takes a spoonful of the powder, Jake shrinks to the size of Chadwick.Jake, along with his unlikely group of friends – including his best friend, Sam, as well as the annoying girl next door, a bully and the class nerd – all take the powder and go off on adventures with the elf. Meanwhile, the kids discover that the powder has some strange side effects: it gives you super powers!
Set in a small Australian farming town on the edge of a national park, Jake and the PB's is an exciting tale of adventure for boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 11 years. A sequel to the ever-popular Jake's Secret, the book tells the story of Jake and his best mate, Sam, Ricky, the class nerd, Tom, the school bully, and Janey, the girl next door; a group of ordinary kids with extraordinary super-powers. Joined by their friend Chadwick, a colorful magic elf with a large, round, yellow face, Jake and his "PB's" take magical powder that shrinks them in size, allowing them to fit inside a hovering, flying car that travels back and forth through time. Dedicated to the motto "Protect and Ass...
It’s cleaning day in a little cottage by the sea and Lara, a Daddy Long Legs spider, finds herself racing for her life from room to room, trying to escape Mrs. Mac and her vacuum cleaner. Unable to curl up and hide like other creatures, poor Lara has to use her long legs to run! Lara is sucked into the vacuum hose and dumped in a pile of dirt. What happy surprise will she find there? Lara Long Legs is a delightful adventure for the whole family, sure to be read again and again.
It's cleaning day in a little cottage by the sea and Lara, a Daddy Long Legs spider, finds herself racing for her life from room to room, trying to escape Mrs. Mac and her vacuum cleaner. Unable to curl up and hide like other creatures, poor Lara has to use her long legs to run! Lara is sucked into the vacuum hose and dumped in a pile of dirt. What happy surprise will she find there? Lara Long Legs is a delightful adventure for the whole family, sure to be read again and again.
Why? follows a young Geordie mining couple, Robbie and Laura who move from up north when the colliery closes, and they are relocated to the Midlands where they can continue in more prosperous mines. After Laura gives birth to their first child Danielle, Robbie is heartbroken to find that she has been sleeping with his best friend, Billy. Danielle grows up in a lonely and detached environment with an alcoholic mother and an abusive step-father. Laura leads Danielle to believe that her father is dead, but the secrets soon begin to unravel and Danielle is left with nobody to turn to. The story follows Danielle's emotional state as she battles to find love and comfort at home. Nearly broken by t...
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