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A brand new edition of the long unavailable children’s story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text. Now available as an audio edition. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the...

Der berühmteste Drachenreiter aller Zeiten zu werden – davon träumt der zehnjährige Theo, als er im Internat Burg Drachenstein eintrifft. Dort hat jeder Drache seine eigenen magischen Fähigkeiten und Theo ist fest überzeugt, dass das Schicksal für ihn einen mächtigen Feuerdrachen als Gefährten vorgesehen hat. Stattdessen wird Theo ausgerechnet von Wanda ausgewählt, einem eigenwilligen Drachen, dessen einzige Fähigkeit es ist, … nett zu sein? Theo ist verzweifelt und will schon seinen Plan, als Drachenreiter in die Geschichte einzugehen, an den Nagel hängen, als plötzlich das Internat angegriffen wird.

This is the diary . . . of a fly. Even though she's little—just like her best friends, Worm and Spider—Fly wants to be a superhero. And why not? She walks on walls, sees in all directions at once, and can already fly! Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, the team behind the #1 New York Times bestsellers Diary of a Worm and Diary of a Spider, reach hilarious heights with their story of a little fly who's not afraid to dream big. Really big.

Cow was in a nasty mood. When Duck came along Cow kicked mud in her face. “Why’d you do that?” asked Duck. “I felt like it,” said Cow. “And I’m not sorry.” Little did Cow know that her bad mood would spread to the whole farm. But it does when Cow passes her anger along to Duck who takes it out on Frog who is mean to Bird who upsets Goat who bothers Pig. Until goodhearted Dog turns things around by showing kindness to Pig, turning not sorry into sorry (really sorry).