Books with author Jean Alexander

SHARKS is an informative children's guide to the fascinating world of sharks. The eight orders of sharks are introduced along with examples of many species. Interesting shark facts are interspersed with 25 colorful photographs. Readers discover how different species of sharks can vary in size, color, shape, eating habits, and even temperament. This 6,000 word book is appropriate as a read aloud book for younger children as well as a research guide for older children.

It's winter and the Pinkers are out of shape - so Dad decides to usethe wholefamily to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book. Butafter a few weeks of earlymorning runs and cardboard flavoured ready meals, (meaning Peony needschips and double helpings of pudding at lunch every day to make up)Peony's become so unfit can barely walk up thehill home. And she's supposed to be climbing Mount Snowdon in just afew weeks! Can Granget the family back on track with some wise words and common sense?Hilarious family comedy with a self-help twist.

Emmett’s dream is always the same. Tingling with half-forgotten memories, he stands in an unknown room surrounded by mirrors, curio cabinets, and nesting dolls. A painting, Belshazzar’s Feast, hangs on the wall, its disembodied hand numbering the King’s final days. Then comes the stranger, the serpent-wielding young woman with the glittering amber eyes. Her words are always the same. Emmett will soon save her. Then the supposed hero awakens to his unremarkable life, awaiting the next night and the same maddeningly familiar dream.Seventeen-year-old orphan Emmett Brennan remembers nothing of his past—not the boiler room in which his needle-ravaged mother gave birth to him, nor the Druids who tenderly delivered him. He can’t remember the cabal-summoned Revenant that clawed itself from shadow to hunt him, or why his mystical midwives hid him from the necromantic creature. Approaching adulthood, he is unaware of the dark forces that still search for him or the mysterious sentinels who secretly protect him, but on the eve of his eighteenth birthday that will change. The Revenants will find him. Only the young woman from his dreams can help him confront all he was once made to forget. Together, they will brave the nightmarish landscape Emmett’s waking world will soon become.

Everyone in Peony Pinker's family wants something. Her dad,a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problempage while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at thegarden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sisterPrimrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - evenmore than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose's nasty new best friend Biancafrom being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next doortells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it's time toput a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?