The smallest reindeer is exploring Santa’s workshop when he accidentally falls into the giftwrapping machine, and finds himself being delivered as a present! The little boy who receives him is overjoyed and cares for him with devotion. One day he discovers that his reindeer is special - he can fly! When Christmas comes round again, the little reindeer disappears, but in his bed of straw the boy finds a thank you note...from Santa Claus. The Little Reindeer is an original and enchanting story, full of warmth and illustrated in glowing watercolours. In this new Christmas story, Michael Foreman has returned to the exciting New York scenes of Cat and Canary.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 4 October 2011
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Aztec
Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hern?n Cort?s and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall.
The story takes place in a broken-down generational space ship that has lost (and largely forgotten) its purpose centuries ago. It has been orbiting a constellation of twin suns for 500 years and has slowly degenerated into a balkanized and feudal-like society, rife with a violent and centuries old conflict between the Houses of Rule and Engine, the almost unrecognizable descendants of the space ship’s Command and Engine sections. Thus the story opens with the latest chapter in a war whose causes are obscure and largely forgotten in a vicious circle of never-ending violence.
"My Best Friends have Hairy Legs" is the story of my dog, Trooper, and me overcoming abusive relationships. It is a story about his growth from a fearful puppy into a confident adult dog - and mine - from a psychologically abused wife into a confident woman who can look back at my past with laughter and no regrets. I don't believe my story is unique. Our stories might differ, the details change, but the emotions and feelings are the same. I wanted to tell our story because we have survived.
Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor-in-chief, has already written about the bond between humans and animals in his acclaimed Horse People, but now he and his wife offer a personal look at their infatuation with cats. The story begins before their marriage, with each having their own first cat experiences, and moves forward as they marry and begin to add cat after cat to their home. Starting with Margaret's cat, Irving, each feline's story and quirks are detailed as they move onto the Kordas' farm.
