Books with author Alexandra Hall

Find out what happens after Ponchos, the factory-made panda, wakes up lost and alone on the stairs of the Empire State Building in the United States of America. Discover the magical world of the zoo where animals talk and plot, and bring New York to a standstill. How could such a cute little bear cause so much trouble to an evil gang who are plotting to steal the jewel of the zoo, a baby panda on loan from China? Will they succeed? Will Ponchos ever find his family again?

32 pages of brilliant colour photos of all sorts of farm animals with informative text from Tractor Ted explaining how animals are looked after, where they live and the proper names for babies, their parents and their homes. See the pigs, cows and sheep and even all the machines used to help look after the animals including straw choppers, feed wagons and muck spreaders. A great way to introduce preschoolers to accurate naming, capture their enthusiasm and channel it into discovering more about the importance of the countryside and where exactly the food on the supermarket shelf begins its life. The final pages in the book have useful games to play which reinforce the facts found within the book.

London, 1882. When 14-year-old Emil's cousin goes missing amidst a string of murders, he manoeuvres himself onto the case with his guardian, inspector Corwin James of Scotland Yard. Through careful examination of the suspicious notes left at the crime scenes and of the unsettling pattern the deaths take on, the two begin to piece the curious murders together into a case with more questions than answers. Who is behind the Wonderland Murders? What do all the victims have in common? And can the murderer be stopped?As Emil draws closer and closer to discovering the truth, it becomes clearer by the minute that the case is more personal than he wants to admit. Though he tries to avoid it, the more he investigates, the more the past forces itself into his consciousness, and what he learns will take him down the rabbit hole-again. Does he have it in him to stop the Mad Hatter and to save himself?...

London, 1882. When 14-year-old Emil's cousin goes missing amidst a string of murders, he manoeuvres himself onto the case with his guardian, inspector Corwin James of Scotland Yard. Through careful examination of the suspicious notes left at the crime scenes and of the unsettling pattern the deaths take on, the two begin to piece the curious murders together into a case with more questions than answers. Who is behind the Wonderland Murders? What do all the victims have in common? And can the murderer be stopped? As Emil draws closer and closer to discovering the truth, it becomes clearer by the minute that the case is more personal than he wants to admit. Though he tries to avoid it, the more he investigates, the more the past forces itself into his consciousness, and what he learns will take him down the rabbit hole-again. Does he have it in him to stop the Mad Hatter and to save himself?