Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and other presidents-to-be faced kid-sized problems growing up in America. Every president started out as a kid Forget the legends, tall tales, and historic

Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other brilliant scientists. Every great scientist started out as a kid. Before their experiments, inventions,

Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers. Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the

Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up. Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes

Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems. Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless

Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple (Stout Glenn)(Pevná vazba)

The true Jazz Age tale of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from

Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (Nye Joseph S.)(Pevná vazba)

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S

Gimson's Presidents - Brief Lives from Washington to Trump (Gimson Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

A spirited and entertaining aide-memoire offering 44 short, fascinating accounts of each president, from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama and Donald Trump, bringing the United States' political history to life as never before. Who can name the eight presidents before Lincoln,

And the People Stayed Home (O'Meara Kitty)(Pevná vazba)

*2021 FAPA President's Book Awards Silver Medalist *Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Children's Books of 2020 'Kitty O'Meara is the poet laureate of the pandemic'--O, The Oprah Magazine 'Kitty O'Meara... is challenging us to grow.'--Deepak Chopra, MD, author, Metahuman 'It captured the kind of

Tale of Angelino Brown (Almond David)(Pevná vazba)

A warm and witty tale from a master storyteller, author of Carnegie Medal-winning Skellig and internationally bestseller The Boy Who Swam with

Plants & Us - how they shape human history & society (Akeroyd Dr John)(Pevná vazba)

Not just another gardening or plant book, from Presidents to pop stars, scientists to slavers, royals to religious leaders, chefs to charlatans, pioneers to politicians, artists to actors, in stories that will often surprise Plants & Us is a unique overview of plants wild and cultivated, their

Kamala and Maya's Big Idea (Harris Meena)(Pevná vazba)

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author's aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer and policy expert

Our Country's Presidents: A Complete Encyclopedia of the U.S. Presidency, 2020 Edition (Bausum Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Revised and updated to include the winner of the 2020 presidential election, this photo-filled and fact-packed book is a timely must-have reference.National Geographic presents the 45 individuals who have led the U.S. in this up-to-date, authoritative, and lavishly illustrated family, school, and

Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse (Alterman Eric)(Pevná vazba)

This definitive history of presidential lying reveals how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and why Trump's lies are especially dangerous.If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president to do so. In Lying in State, Eric

The Little Book of Cumbria (Ramshaw David)(Pevná vazba)

This is a fact-packed compendium of snippets from the past and present, including historical tales, legends and myths of the Lake District and the rest of the region from Barrow to Carlisle. The towns and villages all have their stories to tell of industries past and present, of natural and

Welsh Folk Tales (Stevenson Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honors unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of

A Square of Sky: A Wartime Childhood: From Ghetto to Convent (David Janina)(Paperback)

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival. Made into a

David Hockney: Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

Brings together some well-known tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less familiar. This title is informed by the art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character and

1776 (McCullough David)(Pevná vazba)

America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war

Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Weiss Brian L.)(Pevná vazba)

A 'beautiful and sensitive' tale of true love that transcends time, from the multi-million bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters (Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul). Recommended by Kendall Jenner. In Many Lives, Many Masters, a skeptical Dr. Brian Weiss found his life changed

David Hockney: A Yorkshire Sketchbook (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

The author has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Executed in watercolour and ink, this title features panoramic scenes that have the spatial complexity of finished paintings - the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land - yet convey

Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes - With an introduction by David Solomons (Ahmed Sufiya)(Pevná vazba)

Large Measure of Snow - A Tale From Kinloch (Meyrick Denzil)(Pevná vazba)

David Roberts' Delightfully Different Fairy Tales (Roberts David)(Pevná vazba)

A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in non-traditional periods, with funky clothes and recognisable settings. All beautifully illustrated by the brilliant David Roberts.A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in different decades of