Books with author Daniel Roberts

On a hot summer's day, Harrison and his dinosaur robot decide to share their new wading with their friends... until a purple spotted sea monster comes along wanting the pool to itself. Can Harrison and dinosaur robot come up with a way to defeat the mysterious bully sea monster and teach it a lesson on sharing? Find out in this fun, humorous and colorful third book in the "Harrison and his Dinosaur Robot" series from cartoonist Daniel Roberts.

Part of the Famous series which also includes Famous Dogs and Famous Dolls, Famous Robots and Cyborgs is perfect for the sci-fi market. It covers robots and cyborgs from all forms of popular fiction, including films, cartoons, comic strips and TV from Lost in Space to Futurama. Doctor Who author, Daniel Blythe starts the book with a series of articles about robots and cyborgs, setting them in the context of their day, including fear of invasion from outer space in the 1950s to robot assistants in the home and plans for a future robot race as seen in films such as AI and I, Robot. The main body of the book is an A-Z of famous robots and cyborgs such as Daleks.

Part of the Famous series which also includes Famous Dogs and Famous Dolls, Famous Robots and Cyborgs is perfect for the sci-fi market. It covers robots and cyborgs from all forms of popular fiction, including films, cartoons, comic strips and TV from Lost in Space to Futurama. Doctor Who author, Daniel Blythe starts the book with a series of articles about robots and cyborgs, setting them in the context of their day, including fear of invasion from outer space in the 1950s to robot assistants in the home and plans for a future robot race as seen in films such as AI and I, Robot. The main body of the book is an A-Z of famous robots and cyborgs such as Daleks.

Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself. Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the Water is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.

Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself. Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the Water is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.

The book that inspired the major motion picture'I loved it ... extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football.' Peter CrouchIn the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave’s team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club – one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromley’s worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. It’s easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.