Editorial Content for Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes
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Ruby Redfort books are the favorite reading material of Clarice Bean, star of Lauren Child's popular series. Now Clarice's fans can also enjoy the adventures of the 13-year-old detective/spy.
"Readers will enjoy working on the book's codes alongside the girl detective --- and be thrilled to discover hints that this is just the first in a series of Ruby Redfort books."
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Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort books. Now in her own starring role, Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum.
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Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort books. Now in her own starring role, Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum.
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Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort books. Now in her own starring role, Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum. Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, but she's always ice-cool in a crisis. Just take a classic screwball comedy, add heaps of breathtaking action, and multiply it by Lauren Child's writing genius, and what have you got? Only the most exciting new middle-grade series since, like, ever.
Editorial content for The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book III: The Unseen Guest
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In THE MYSTERIOUS HOWLING, which kicked off Maryrose Wood’s The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, we met a young governess hired to her first position. Penelope Lumley is shocked to find that her little charges are three siblings who had been raised by wolves. But in the true fashion of a girl educated at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, she does her best to teach, civilize and love them. Read More
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While Ashton Place is being restored, Penelope, the Ashtons, and the children take up residence in London. Penelope is thrilled, as the city offers so many opportunities to further the education of her unique students. As the children explore their new home, they discover more about themselves as clues about the children's --- and Penelope's --- mysterious past crop up in the most unexpected ways.
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While Ashton Place is being restored, Penelope, the Ashtons, and the children take up residence in London. Penelope is thrilled, as the city offers so many opportunities to further the education of her unique students. As the children explore their new home, they discover more about themselves as clues about the children's --- and Penelope's --- mysterious past crop up in the most unexpected ways.
About the Book
Of especially naughty children it is sometimes said, "They must have been raised by wolves."
The Incorrigible children actually were.
Thanks to the efforts of Miss Penelope Lumley, their plucky governess, Alexander, Beowulf and Cassiopeia are much more like children than wolf pups now. They are accustomed to wearing clothes. They hardly ever howl at the moon. And for the most part, they resist the urge to chase squirrels up trees.
Despite Penelope's civilizing influence, the Incorrigibles still managed to ruin Lady Constance's Christmas ball, nearly destroying the grand house. So while Ashton Place is being restored, Penelope, the Ashtons, and the children take up residence in London. Penelope is thrilled, as London offers so many opportunities to further the education of her unique students. But the city presents challenges, too, in the form of the palace guards' bearskin hats, which drive the children wild --- not to mention the abundance of pigeons the Incorrigibles love to hunt. As they explore London, however, they discover more about themselves as clues about the children's --- and Penelope's --- mysterious past crop up in the most unexpected ways...
Editorial Content for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
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There simply was never a car like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang --- that is, EXCEPT Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Unfortunately for Chitty, a magical car that can fly, its parts have been strewn all over the world and has laid unnoticed and disregarded for many years. That it would ever be put “together” again, least of all fly, is pretty much not in the picture. That’s the way it appears until… Read More
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When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car...and it wants its bodywork back! But as the Tootings hurtle across the world rebuilding the original Chitty, a sinister baddie is on their trail --- one who will stop at nothing to get the magnificent car for himself.
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When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car...and it wants its bodywork back! But as the Tootings hurtle across the world rebuilding the original Chitty, a sinister baddie is on their trail --- one who will stop at nothing to get the magnificent car for himself.
About the Book
When the Tooting family finds an old engine and fits it to their camper van, they have no idea what kind of adventure lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary car...and it wants its bodywork back! But as the Tootings hurtle across the world rebuilding the original Chitty, a sinister baddie is on their trail --- one who will stop at nothing to get the magnificent car for himself.
Fueled by wry humor , this much-anticipated sequel to the children's classic by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond --- featuring a contemporary family and a camper van with a mind of its own --- is driven by bestselling, award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce and revved up by Joe Berger's black-and-white illustrations.
Editorial content for Kaspar the Titanic Cat
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Kaspar, a beautiful black cat originally owned by opera singer Countess Kandinsky, comes to stay at the Savoy in London while his owner is rehearsing and performing at Convent Garden. During her stay, the Countess befriends a bellboy, Johnny Trott, and employs him to care for her cat while she is working. A bond soon develops between Johnny and Kaspar.
"Despite being a work of fiction, parts of KASPAR THE TITANIC seem quite real, especially when Morpurgo starts describing what it was like to actually be on the Titanic as it was going down."
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When Kaspar the cat first arrived at London’s Savoy Hotel, it was Johnny Trott who carried him in. But when tragedy befalls the Countess during her stay, Kaspar becomes more than Johnny’s responsibility: Kaspar is Johnny’s new cat, and his new best friend.
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When Kaspar the cat first arrived at London’s Savoy Hotel, it was Johnny Trott who carried him in. But when tragedy befalls the Countess during her stay, Kaspar becomes more than Johnny’s responsibility: Kaspar is Johnny’s new cat, and his new best friend.
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When Kaspar the cat first arrived at London’s Savoy Hotel, it was Johnny Trott who carried him in. After all, Johnny was a bellboy and was responsible for all of Countess Kandinsky’s things --- including Kaspar. But when tragedy befalls the Countess during her stay, Kaspar becomes more than Johnny’s responsibility: Kaspar is Johnny’s new cat, and his new best friend.
And when Kaspar and Johnny meet Lizziebeth, a spirited young heiress, they find themselves journeying across the Atlantic with Lizziebeth’s family on England’s newest and most magnificent ship, the Titanic. Because there is always adventure in the air with a cat like Kaspar around. After all, he’s Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Londoner and a New Yorker and, as far as anyone knows, the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic.
