Dennis Pepper Bücher

This collection brings together a wide range of stories about aliens and encounters with aliens. Some are hostile invaders of Earth, others friendly and more generous visitors - though not all of them are as friendly as they would like us to believe.

Christmas has always been a time for telling stories, and this collection draws on that tradition to create a wonderful mixture of stories for the festive season. It includes stories about presents and surprises; about family quarrels and loneliness; about both happy and sad times - and, of course, about ghosts. It all adds up to a thought provoking and absorbing collection which brings together stories about all the different faces of Christmas, and what it means to us.

Families and friends come together at Christmas and, as they do, they will return to this marvelous collection of holiday stores year after year. Here are engaging stories about love, secrets, friendship, bravery, conflict, and compassion. The collection features thirty stories by a galaxy of talented writers, including Charles Dickens, Laurie Lee, Philippa Pearce, Geraldine McCaughrean, Jacqueline Wilson, Nicholas Fisk, and many, many more. So whether you want to slide with Mr. Pickwick on the ice or find out what's on Adrian Mole's Christmas list, there are delights and surprises to be discovered in this wonderfully varied anthology of stories illustrated in both color and black and white.

Here is a gift for the whole family that will stir the emotions and fill the heart of all animal lovers--an anthology of animal stories that draws on tales from all over the world and across the centuries. There are myths and legends first told thousands of years ago by Inuit, Crow, Gaelic,Modoc, Norse, and other cultures that explain "How Raven Brought the Light" or how Coyote created the world as well as Man. Classic fables--such as "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby"--are mixed in with animal stories from 20th-century writers, such as Rudyard Kipling,Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Liam O'Flaherty.The book is illustrated with masterful black-and-white ink drawings. It is an impressive collection, a compassionate and thoughtful look at our relationship with the animal world, which teaches both children and adults to love and care for the creatures that share the Earth with us. An animal indexhelps readers find stories about their favorite animals.