An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed
love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language
everyone can understand
James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs.
James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop songs.
2018 Odyssey Honor
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
Before there was Santa Claus, there was a young boy who believed in the impossible. . . . Lemony Snicket meets Elf in this warmhearted Christmas caper.
Eleven-year-old Nikolas—nicknamed “Christmas”—has received only one toy in his life.
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
Before there was Santa Claus, there was a young boy who believed in the impossible. . . . Lemony Snicket meets Elf in this warmhearted Christmas caper.
Eleven-year-old Nikolas—nicknamed “Christmas”—has received only one toy in his life.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely
funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too
soon.”—The Washington Post Book World
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden
Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly
Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in
print.” –The New York Times
FANTASTIC MR.
FANTASTIC MR.
When a petty thief falls though a glass roof in his attempt to
escape from the police, what should have been the death of him
marks the beginning of a while new life. After his broken body is
reconstructed by an ambitious young doctor, he is released from
prison, and--with the help of Victorian London's extensive sewer
system--he becomes the most elusive burglar in the city.
