Books with author Richard Kidd

In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.

Under the ocean's surface lies a hidden microcosm of life: the complex and alien world of plankton. In this book extraordinary high-magnification photography reveals the strange beauty and amazing variety of these tiny creatures that float freely near the sunlit surface of the sea. From here, they underpin the whole marine food chain, help to provide the planet with oxygen, and play an essential role in the global carbon cycle.

Do you have to be dead to be famous?Stanley Buckle is a quiet sort of boy. Since his dad died, his closest friend has been Neville, an artist who lives in an old mill with a one-eared cat called Vincent. Then Neville mysteriously vanishes in a terrible flood. As the story of Neville's disappearance spreads, the price of his paintings rockets. Stanley is shocked to discover that Neville's work is worth more when he's dead than when he's alive. Then Stanley discovers something even more astounding - something that is to lead him into the most dangerous adventure of his life.Set partly in rural England and partly in the Scottish isles in the 1960s, this is a very special adventure tale with an original emotional edge.

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'GRAND PAINTING COMPETITION' announces the poster, and Daisy, a budding artist, decides to enter a picture of her favourite things. She sets off around the world, travelling in the footsteps of great artists such as Van Gogh, Monet and Gauguin, in search of inspiration. This entertaining story introduces children to key works by five artists, showing each painter's style and the place where he worked, and a superb introduction to some of the greatest painters in history.

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The brilliant young Korean-American novelist who electrified reads with The Martyred has now written a deeply moving impression of the Korea he knew as a child during the Japanese occupation. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book consists of seven vivid scenes drawn from the author's childhood and early adolescence.

Jane the BrainJane Series, Book 1 of 5Jane Morton, an eighth grader with ESP begins the school year by meeting a new boy similarly gifted. The story follows them through the school year and the following summer. Their activities center in their relationship and their church youth camp.* * *“My lunch money!” the small boy wailed, pointing.Three quarters rolled across the sidewalk toward a storm sewer opening. Without hesitation, Jane stared at the tumbling coins, and they stopped as if hitting a wall. She smiled as the tearful child snatched them up and crammed them into his pocket. An air of joy hovered about the child as he trotted away toward school.God bless you, little one, she thought after him. God, bless me at school this year, too, she prayed.A telepath, Jane had focused her brain to stop the rolling coins. From her earliest childhood, she learned to mask her extraordinary gift. To her parents and teachers, she was an ordinary, but highly intelligent, daughter and student.When her parents named her, they hoped she would grow up to be a happy, well-adjusted woman. It seemed almost a cliché that they expected her to be a “plain Jane”.