Books with author Mary Benson

The most entertaining fun way of learning for kids is by pictorial representation of objects or subjects of learning.The Kid’s Learn - Identification of Fruits and Vegetables with Colouring Exercises is designed to introduce kids to fruits and vegetables for healthy living and to help them identify these fruits and vegetables. It is a perfect fun learning activity workbook for kids, either boys or girls.The objective of this book therefore, is to arouse, build and sustain the interest of kids in healthy living by introducing them to fruits and vegetables.The coloring exercises will improve your child's pencil grip as well as helping him or her to develop and fulfill his imagination by putting his or her imagination to work. The result of these colouring exercises is that there would be a steady, firm and increasing development of your child’s brain functions, his/her creative capacity and his/her ability to give attention to details. The book also provides the child fun filled colouring exercises to boost the child’s learning interestIdeal for kids between the ages of 3+

Who is the boy spying on Dana? Who is the girl imprisoned in her dreams? Following the Information Terrorism attack on London, a radical new government has risen to power. The world is changing, but so far as it concerns Dana Provine, an unusual autistic girl growing up in an unforgiving society, everyday life is much the same. When Dana is troubled by disturbing dreams about a hospital, and a boy from school who seems to know far too much about the past starts following her, it's just two more problems on top of many. But when she encounters a bizarre construct, half beast, half machine, she realises something dangerous is going on that could affect everyone. The answer she seeks could confirm both her greatest hope and her deepest fear: that Ivor Pilgrennon still lives.

For as long as anyone can remember, the sky-continent Stratos has drifted harmlessly in the vicinity of the North Pole. But now a hole has appeared in the ozone layer and Queen Cirrus Cumulonimbus XVI has abdicated, leaving her unjust heirs to fight over the throne...When her summer holiday is ruined by freak weather and Uncle Horace's meteorology plane disappears somewhere over the Atlantic, Willow is determined to get to the bottom of things. While searching for her uncle, she becomes stranded on icy Stratos, controlled by restrictive laws and ruled by the tyrannous Princess Isobar and the greedy Prince Anticyclone. With the aid of unlikely ally Curmudgeon the sky goblin, Willow must find a way to return the rightful monarch -- and realises she alone holds the key that will free Stratos.

When you live in a rubbish tip and your favourite food is your mum's mouldy soup, life in the city is strange and confusing. Lenny is a boy from a family of barbarians living in a landfill site, who finds himself lost in a strange, sterile world. Although the people he meets are only trying to help him, Lenny can't fit in, so he must make the perilous journey back to the rubbish tip to be reunited with his people.

Excerpt from The Orphan Boy, or a Journey to Bath: Founded on FactThe object of her present journey was to seek benefit from the Bath waters, after a severe fit of the rheumatism.They had passed two days on the road, and were near completing the third, when the little family complaining of sickness, obliged them to stop at an obscure house of entertainment, to procure some reme dy for the evil. Here, however, the inva lid became worse, and her own frame feeling the effects of travelling, Mrs. Man chester began to make inquiry as to the possibility of remaining all night at the Greyhound.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.