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Clive King's wonderful classic, Stig of the Dump, is now available to download, complete and unabridged and read by the brilliant Tony Robinson.Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the edge of a disused chalk-pit when it gives way and he lands in a sort of cave. Here he meets 'somebody with a lot of shaggy hair and two bright black eyes' wearing a rabbit skin and speaking in grunts. He names him Stig. Of course nobody believes Barney when he tells his family all about Stig, but for Barney cave-man Stig is totally real.

A child describes his hen and the beautiful eggs she lays.

Imagine a world where kings prick their fingers as they sew, wolves wear heels, and princesses race to rescue sleeping princes ... People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change. They haven't rewritten the stories in this book.

When the grownup virus hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom troublemaker reaches out to a teacher when his own father begins to exhibit signs of mental illness.

When Charlie's artist mother is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk about. Charlie has never visited a country as strange and puzzling as Cuba -- a country where he often feels like a time traveler. Where Havana's grand Hotel Nacional sits next to buildings that seem to be crumbling before his very eyes.

<p>Coyote Columbus story: Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus's voyages. In doing so, he invites children to laugh with him at the crazy antics of Coyote, who unwittingly allows Columbus to bring about the downfall of her human friends. And he makes the point that history is influenced by the culture of the reporter.</p>

The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice. Jafar is a child laborer in a chair factory and longs to go to school. Sue sits on a swing as she and her brother wait to have a supervised visit with their father at the children's aid society. Gretchen considers the lives of concentration camp victims during a school tour of Auschwitz.

C'est sur une île paradisiaque que va se dérouler le concours de danse auquel participe Chelsea, la plus jeune sœur de Barbie. En arrivant sur l'île, Chelsea veut tout de suite aller répéter, mais Barbie réserve une surprise à ses sœurs et les entraîne vers un festival de chevaux dansant. Malheureusement, les jeunes filles vont faire face à une suite d'imprévus et de péripéties qu'elles ne sont pas près d'oublier ! Rejoignez Barbie et tous ses amis pour d'incroyables aventures ! Résolvez les mystères de passages secrets, de monstres marins et de bouteilles à la mer...

"Adaptées au cinéma, les Lettres de mon moulin doivent autant à Marcel Pagnol qu'à Alphonse Daudet. Aussi, les oeuvres sonores présentées dans ce coffret sont-elles doublement originales. En premier lieu par la réécriture des oeuvres de Daudet par Pagnol, adaptées à sa mise en scène et à sa science de la direction d'acteurs.

"Michel Galabru et Jean Topart apportent à la musicalité des vers du fabuliste, la séduction de leur voix respective. Deux timbres caractéristiques, signatures vocales de deux des plus grands comédiens de leur génération qui témoignent de la maîtrise d'un art inimitable et consommé de la diction.