Ignoring warnings against it, little Billy enters the Forest of Sins, only to be pursued by the fearsome Grinder, a creature who chases him high up an ancient tree, where he encounters a city of tree-dwelling, matchstick-sized people.

"The people who live among the high peaks of the Himalayas tell stories of a mysterious animal called the gray ghost. To see one, you'd have to be very lucky indeed. Join a zoologist in the Himalayan mountains as he searches for the elusive creature. With her pale gold and silver-gray coat painted with black rosettes, she blends so well into the boulders, it's no wonder she's thought of as a ghost of the mountains. But the fortunate few who spot her...

Young Yazul's love for making kites with his grandfather meets with disapproval from his father, a lord along the Silk Road, until their community is attacked by bandits and Yazul and his grandfather use their skills to help.

The fourth enchanting addition to Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows - with the delightful illustrations of Patrick Benson. The twelve days of Christmas are fast approaching and Mole is planning to enjoy every one of them with his River Bank friends. So when the normally cheerful Toad despairs at the arrival of Mrs. Ffleshe, an impossibly rude houseguest who every year sets out to protect Toad from overindulgence, Mole must do something...

The further escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

Retells the adventures of Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest as they right wrongs and fight injustice.

Lost in their own worlds, three unusual creatures are powerless to find answers, until a small boy appears, who seems stranger, odder, and even more lost than they. As the three creatures comfort the child, they discover their hearts' desires, while their new friend finds surprising ways to make all their dreams and wishes come true.

"To read the collected essays here is to feel invited to a salon." —Signature

How We Speak to One Another is some of the most engaging evidence we've got that the essay is going strong. Here, essayists talk back to each other, to the work they love and the work that disquiets them, and to the very basic building blocks of what we understand "essay" to be. What's compiled in these pages testifies to the endless...

After the FBI receives a major bomb threat, two FBI specialists (Copeland & Lana) are plunged into a deadly game, desperately racing against time to uncover their adversary's true agenda as they fight to save their city.