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A classic fable from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, read by Johnny Morris. Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

Stand and deliver! Young Tod Golightly is off to find fame and fortune as a highwayman, with help from his four unlikely accomplices: Matilda the wise old donkey, Digby the mastiff, Loudmouth the magpie, and a strong-smelling ferret called Evil. A daring robbery makes Tod the terror of the Great West Road, but the Bow Street Runners are hot on his trail.... A funny, moving story about a boy and his animal friends from best-selling author Dick King-Smith.

The radio culture of World War II America comes alive with this mischievous tale of two best friends who - inspired by the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, and the Shadow - set out to right the wrongs of the world. Jeff Woodman’s delightfully funny narration is reason enough to listen to this book!

Auf die Einladung von acht Professoren stürmten im Sommer 2002 fünftausend Kinder die Aula der Universität Tübingen, um endlich einmal auf die großen Warum?-Fragen eine befriedigende Antwort zu erhalten. Die Journalisten und Ideengeber dieser Vorlesungsreihe, Ulrich Janßen und Ulla Steuernagel, haben die Vorträge dokumentiert und präsentieren nun die spannenden Ergebnisse dieser Kinder-Uni.

Long long ago, there lived in Norway a grumpy, grouchy farmer called Gloomy Gus. Gloomy Gus was not just a grouch---he was arrogant too, and believed he was smarter than everybody else, especially his wife. Read this captivating and humourous folktale from Norway to find out just how smart he really was!

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD Junie B. Jones tries to be the star of the kickball tournament in the hit chapter book series that keeps kids laughing and “makes reading fun” (Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man). “Junie B. is the darling of the...

Old Man Hawkins was a larger-than-life character among deer hunters, or, more precisely, among tellers and hearers of tall tales. His self-proclaimed method of hunting deer by holding a mirror in one hand and his rifle in the other, pointing backward over a shoulder, was, he said, "to be fair to the deer". It was a story, Davis tells us, that would occupy his father on the drive to Grandma's house.