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No one, living or dead, is more polite than Horrendo. In all his 11 years he's never said a rude word to anyone – because he was cursed at birth with a spell that only lets him speak kind words. Horrendo finds life difficult in his rough-and-tough village, yet when he and other boys are kidnapped and turned into slaves aboard a pirate ship, Horrendo must turn his curse into a blessing and come up with a clever plot to escape.

Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the sad old secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black circle like a target on his bottom. Then Frances meets Kit, the tall, quiet boy with the two-coloured eyes. Kit is a real artist. His coloured pencils fill page after page of exercise books. He sees wonder in the rocks and ferns and sky. Though Kit has worries of his own.

Tashi has more daredevil adventures to tell. Hear all about him in this collection of stories about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn. This collection includes Tashi and the Baba Yaga, Gone!, Tashi and the Demons and The Magic Bell.

The eighth story in the Tashi series of daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and a pair of magic shoes. The crowd gasped in amazement. 'Look at those shoes! Look at him fly!' Jack's Uncle Joe loves to tell stories, and so does Tashi—like the one about the magic shoes and Uncle Tiki Pu's sneaky plan. In the second story in this book, 'The Fortune Teller', find out what Tashi did when the fortune teller Luk Ahed said that his 10th birthday would be his last. There's no stopping Tashi.

Daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn, by the award-winning authors Anna and Barbara Fienberg. The very lovable Tashi returns to tell Jack more of his adventures in faraway lands: Featured in this collection: Tashi and the Ghosts, Tashi and the Bandits, Tashi and the Mountain of White Tigers and Tashi and the Stolen Children.

Tashi is back with two more stories to tell! A two-story collection from the best-selling Tashi series of daring adventures and tall tales about magic, courage and the triumph of brains over brawn. This collection includes Tashi and the Haunted House and Tashi and the Royal Tomb.

Tashi always has big adventures, like the time he gets lost in the city and has no escape from the mean man with a lass eye and a silver dagger. Then, on the way home, Tashi and Grandma are kidnapped by brigands called Fearless and Ferocious. But clever Tashi always knows what to do—stay calm, think hard and move fast.

Anna Fienberg's fabulous new high-seas pirate adventure, with scoundrels and blaggards, devilish treachery and pirates who long for a bit of comfort - great reading for 8- to 12-year-olds from the world of Horrendo's Curse. Will could walk a tightrope and juggle bananas as he went. 'One day you'll be the star of a circus,' his mother told him. 'But until then, you must be a secret.' For each year pirates came to the islands to steal young boys for their crew. And if that happened to you, well, you may as well kiss your life good-bye.

We arrived at the tower at the top of the castle. The door was locked. 'We can't go into that room,' said Ho Hum. 'Not ever.' Tashi tells Jack about his scariest adventure ever the mysterious stranger Bluebeard moved into the old castle. Nobody knew what a monser Bluebeard was until he challenges Tashi to complete three impossible tasks. Can Tashi really save the day again?

Well, it was like this. Come and I'll tell you about the time I tricked the last dragon of all. "Jack has an extraordinary new friend. Tashi comes from a place far away and tells the best stories - about how he escaped from a war lord and flew to Australia on a swan. About how he was chased by a giant.

Callisto May knows a lot about planets. She could name all the moons of Jupiter, or tell you the dimensions of the Great Red Spot, but she doesn't know much about love. She's so used to pleasing other people that she has lost track of how to be herself. And now there's no one close enough to help: her boyfriend is way out of reach; her mother is distracted by sad ladies; and her dad - well his motto is be prepared, which is exactly what Cally wasn't.

Here are four wonderful fishy tales about Madeline the Mermaind, her medgo, Byron, and her mercat, Bella. This collection of imaginative Anna Fienberg stories is told by actor Tara Morice and includes "The Mermaid with Wild Yellow Hair", "Horatio the Jellyfish", "The Sea Harpy", and "The Sea Witch War". Will Madeline be swallow up by the monster Kraken? Or will she be bored to death by the talking Pufferfish? Can she escape the Sea Harpy with her hair of hissing snakes? And prevent a war of magic between the rival Sea Witches - a war that would mean the end for all sea creatures?

I think the best number in the whole universe is eight. My friend, Asim, likes numbers about as much as me, but he likes them all - odd or even. Esmarelda, though, who lives across the street, isn't so fond of numbers and she hates math. Singing's more her thing. She's really good, too - nearly as good as my mum. Mum's a professional singer, or was, until we had to move. The worst number in the universe, though, is seven. For a start, it's an odd number, and it's thin and sharp and mean-looking, like a medieval scythe.