Books with author Cale Atkinson

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Kids getting ready for Halloween will love this laugh-out-loud picture book that finally sets the record straight about monsters!Monsters! They're so much more than just that scary thing under your bed. Join Professors Batula McFang, Blobbins, and Howlsworth, and their trusty lab assistant--a zombie named Tina--as they reveal eerie and frankly ridiculous monster facts, never uttered outside a crypt! For example: • Monsters love competitive board-game nights! • Favorite monster foods include clam pudding with fish heads and pickled ant ice cream! • In addition to cauldrons and spider gardens, monster homes often include homemade collages! • Werewolves hate the sound of vacuum cleaners! • Monsters aren't all scary! Try being nice to one for a change! Offer them a compliment!Full of eye-popping illustrations and a story with nonstop sidesplitting laughs, plus a removable Professor of Monstrology diploma at the end of the book, Monsters 101 will have children--and adults--eager to enroll, time and time again!

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident--a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved: the wife of an unscrupulous property developer, a crime writer, a washed-up comedian. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander--until he becomes a murder suspect.

Excerpt from General Dixon's Boy Aide, or Ned Trinkner in the ArmyThe Rebel boys were in a minority, so when they proposed a regular battle, which challenge the Union boys accepted, they agreed on the following terms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Berg, the African wind, looks down peacefully on the plains below. Yet he is unaware that Tumbili, the baboon, has found a rare giant ruby mango. The greedy monkey wants to eat it all for himself, but he is tricked into swapping the mango for a secret that only Nuki the bee knows. Word quickly spreads about the delicious secret, and Berg wakes to find that all of the animals have gone. Perhaps Mambo the evil crocodile can tell Berg where all of the animals are? Nuki must own up to his mistake in letting the secret slip, and then learn how to defend the secret in the hive. Can little Nuki find a way to protect the precious content meant only for Berg?