Casa editrice: Treehouse Books
A little prince is cursed, and born with a very long nose, but his dear little princess bride, and everyone else, has an ordinary one. Will everyone be able to keep their confidence and live happily ever after? Download this funny, classic fairy tale short story and find out...
It is 1666 and Vlad the flea and his friend Boxton the rat, love eating and biting their way around London. But one night in Pudding Lane they are caught up in a fire that threatens to destroy them, along with most of the City of London. The Vlad flea books are a series of historically accurate stories narrated by Vlad himself. He weaves a tale about the events he sees and in the process tells his young listeners about moments in history. These books include a fact file giving further details and clarifying what really happened all those years ago.Mostra libro
Becky finds that she really does have the perfect friends.Mostra libro
Arabella Twigg is an ordinary girl. Her father invents things that don’t work. Her mother cooks food no one can eat and her horrid brother, Tom, likes to get her into trouble. Her Gran is crazy but loves Arabella very much.Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is caravaning with her family in Whitby, England and visits the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, when suddenly she and her brother find themselves actually on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and his eighty seafaring crew, on the open seas sailing to Tahiti.Will they every make it back from this perilous journey, especially when the ship hits a reef and takes on water?Mostra libro
The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson—made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures—who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon!Katherine knew it was wrong that African Americans didn't have the same rights as others—as wrong as 5+5=12. She knew it was wrong that people thought women could only be teachers or nurses—as wrong as 10-5=3. And she proved everyone wrong by zooming ahead of her classmates, starting college at fifteen, and eventually joining NASA, where her calculations helped pioneer America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon!Award-winning author Suzanne Slade and debut artist Veronica Miller Jamison tell the story of a NASA "computer" in this smartly written, charming biography.Mostra libro
This charming fable of an exotic princess who refuses to speak currently exists only on Neil's official Web site and has never been published in print or any other format.Mostra libro
Twenty-four robots competed in DARPA challenge re: disaster-response tasks. Korea's DRC-HUBO won. Sidebar on the difficulty of designing a robot that can walk steadily.Mostra libro
