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  Chubby Little Pony The (Pixi...

  Ruth Gellersen, Pixi Gute Nacht...

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  When Frieda arrives at the horse farm, only the small, chubby pony is left. Will it be a nice ride?
  Pixi bedtime stories for children: listen and fall asleep.
  This is an auto-narrated audiobook.

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  Shiloh: The History of the First...

  Jonathan Gianos-Steinberg

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  After Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in early 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, widely considered the Confederacy’s best general, concentrated his forces in northern Georgia and prepared for a major offensive that culminated with the biggest battle of the war to that point, the Battle of Shiloh. On the morning of April 6, Johnston directed an all out attack on Grant’s army around Shiloh Church, and though Grant’s men had been encamped there, they had failed to create defensive fortifications or earthworks. They were also badly caught by surprise. With nearly 45,000 Confederates attacking, Johnston’s army began to steadily push Grant’s men back toward the river. 
  The Battle of Shiloh lasted two days, but the battle over the battle had just begun. Grant’s army had just won the biggest battle in the history of North America, with nearly 24,000 combined casualties among the Union and Confederate forces. Usually the winner of a major battle is hailed as a hero, but Grant was hardly a winner at Shiloh. The Battle of Shiloh took place before costlier battles at places like Antietam and Gettysburg, so the extent of the casualties at Shiloh shocked the nation. Moreover, at Shiloh the casualties were viewed as needless; Grant was pilloried for allowing the Confederates to take his forces by surprise, as well as the failure to build defensive earthworks and fortifications, which nearly resulted in a rout of his army. Speculation again arose that Grant had a drinking problem, and some even assumed he was drunk during the battle. Though the Union won, it was largely viewed that their success owed to the heroics of General Sherman in rallying the men and Don Carlos Buell arriving with his army, and General Buell was happy to receive the credit at Grant’s expense.

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  12 Unicorns In My Bedroom

  Dorothy Dowling

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  Livvy doesn’t know it, but she’s about to have an extraordinary morning. Twelve very unusual visitors have turned up in her bedroom...... Unicorns! 
  How magical, you say. Well, yes - if only they didn’t announce themselves in such a distinctly unmagical way… 
  Sure, the puffs of glitter are very pretty, but unicorn farts are as stinky as anyone else’s – maybe even worse. And their wild behaviour is another problem; these unicorns want to party! Before very long, they’ve created complete chaos in Livvy’s room with their prancing and dancing, cheering and rearing, twirling and twerking and tooting! 
  Floss, Duke, Fancy, Priscilla, Kevin, Lancelot and their friends don’t see the problem; they’re only fun-loving unicorns, after all. But the clock is ticking, and in just a few minutes Livvy’s mother is coming to check that she’s tidied her room before school. 
  Written in musical, inventive rhyme, this highly engaging illustrated storybook will get any early reader giggling at these loveable unicorn antics. With a sprinkling of sparkles and a big helping of humour, the magical mayhem will entrance 5- to 8-year-olds everywhere. 
  Find out how Livvy deals with her unicorn invasion. Bring your own glitter!

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  The Age of Wonder

  Alexei Tolstoy

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  Alexei Tolstoy is better known for his grownup novels and stories. Here, however, is a large collection of tales he had recorded and reimagined for the younger audiences. Peasants and kings, domestic and wild animals, magical creatures and objects are mixed together in this delightful cauldron of imagination.

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  Gloom Town

  Ronald L. Smith

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  A delightfully creepy novel from a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner imbued with magic and seafaring mythology. Lemony Snicket and Jessica Townsend meet Greenglass House, with a hint of Edward Gorey thrown in. 
  When twelve-year-old Rory applies for a job at a spooky old mansion in his gloomy seaside town, he finds the owner, Lord Foxglove, odd and unpleasant. But he and his mom need the money, so he takes the job anyway. Rory soon finds out that his new boss is not just strange, he’s not even human—and he’s trying to steal the townspeople’s shadows. 
  Together, Rory and his friend Isabella set out to uncover exactly what Foxglove and his otherworldly accomplices are planning and devise a strategy to defeat them. But can two kids defeat a group of ancient evil beings who are determined to take over the world?

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  On the Future of Our Educational...

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his sense of purpose. The genius of such thinkers and makers—like the genius of the ancient Greeks—was the only touchstone for true understanding. How then was education to answer to such genius? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy...What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the great problems of modern societies.

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