Books with author Russell Dorn

Meet Felipe Femur the skeleton. He lives in a closet where he has lots of fun. But there’s an awful feeling growing in his heart.Join Felipe Femur on his quest to defeat boredom and loneliness and find happiness. Read along as he learns something new about himself and meets interesting monster friends, including a hungry, toothless werewolf, a sun loving vampire, and a not so wicked witch, who is in the middle of boiling up some gross green stew in her cauldron. Join Felipe Femur as he problem solves and helps his friends with their issues of eating without teeth, cooking and testing the food while having a burnt tongue, and being too sensitive to the sun.Felipe Femur, Gummy Garou, Runny Rotten, and Sunny Stoker can’t wait to have you as a guest in their closet, fallen moon crescent, grotto, and tombstone homes. Like most skeletons in the closet, Felipe tends to stay hidden away. In other words, he’s usually a lone wolf, as his friend Gummy Garou likes to say. In his closet, Felipe loves to build things like forts and houses of cards. He also loves to solve puzzles, but sometimes he grows bored of these things. On occasion, he yearns for time with his friends. So he invites them over to pull up a coat hanger and hang out, or, as is the case here, he walks around Toonstone to find them. Being the health nut he is, Felipe loves to walk, and in doing so, he meets many new friends and old friends, too—ghosts, ghouls, banshees, and even a lagoon creature. Maybe someday, if you’re out and about, he’ll walk into you! Keep an eye socket out for a sequel about the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos), which will be coming soon, as well as the Halloween (All Hallows Eve/ All Saint's Eve) book with a full cast of characters that appear in the final scene of this book—costumes and all. Get ready to have your funny bone tickled in this happy little tale about friendship and a not-so-happy, introverted skeleton.

For most people, home is a place with four walls. It's a place to eat, sleep, rest, and live. For a refugee, the concept of home is ever-changing, ever-moving, ever-wavering. And often, it doesn't have any walls at all.Eleven-year-old Lam escapes from Vietnam with Dee Dee during the Vietnamese Boat People Exodus in 1979, when people from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fled their homelands for safety. For a refugee, the trip is a long and perilous one, filled with dangerous encounters with pirates and greedy sailors, a lack of food and water, and even the stench of a dead body onboard. When they finally arrive at a refugee camp, Lam befriends Dao, a girl her age who becomes like a sister-a welcome glimmer of happiness after a terrifying journey. Readers will feel as close to Lam as the jade pendant she wears around her neck, sticking by her side throughout her journey as she experiences fear, crushing loss, boredom, and some small moments of joy along the way. Written in verse, this is a heartfelt story that is sure to build empathy and compassion for refugees around the world escaping oppression.

The Monster Book of Jokes is a collection of jokes with a horror theme. Enjoy more than 175 jokes about Aliens, Ghost, Skeletons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches. Perfect for Halloween, campfire gatherings, for telling under blankets after lights-out, or anytime you want to laugh or make your friends and family chuckle. Kids and parents can both enjoy the comedy within—puns, anti-jokes, and play on words, etc.! Why do aliens write love notes using crop circles? How do you debunk aliens? What did the ghost teacher say to her confused students? Why do skeletons like easy questions? Why don’t witches wear top hats? What do you get when you cross a werewolf and a vampire? How are vampires like dentures? Find out the funny answers to each of these questions and many more!As an alien might say, “Take me to your reader. Your E-reader, that is.” Enjoy the humorous jokes that have funny fiends themselves howling with laughter. Get your funny bone tickled and be the life of the party with this collection of Halloween humor.

Felipe Femur the skeleton is on a road trip. Traveling with him are some of his monster best friends… and Joe Miller. Joe Miller is just your average guy—or is he? Learn along with Felipe just how unusual Joe Miller might be. Runny Rotten the not-so-wicked witch, Sunny Stoker the sun loving vampire, Gummy Garou the toothless werewolf, and Melody Muse the mute Banshee with her musical crab Choral are traveling with Felipe Femur the skeleton in an RV. They all hope to see what the mortal world has to offer. Joe Miller has been invited as he’s the most down to earth, average guy that the rest of the crew knows. They had hoped he might serve as a sort of a tour guide to the strange mortal lands. Plus, the guy can pitch in for gas and snacks.Take part in the adventure by reading the postcards Felipe sends to you from different cities in the USA. Learn about the western United States. Discover the adventures to be had on the road and in Felipe Femur’s travels with his foreign skeleton crew. Start in Felipe Femur’s hometown of Toonstone in the Underworld and then explore the countryside around Rachel, Nevada, with a night at the Little A'Le'Inn, and continue towards Beatty and Las Vegas. Follow along as the gang make their way through California, stopping at cities such as Baker, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Monica, Paso Robles (where Sunny discovers there are vampires in the vineyard), in addition to Salinas, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco. Felipe has a full schedule with Universal Studios, the Boardwalk, the beach, the Zoo, Hogwarts, and Chinatown on the list of places to visit. The monsters also explore Arizona (the Grand Canyon and Phoenix), and New Mexico, where the Very Large Array and a lone satellite off U.S. Route 380 hints at an extraterrestrial presence. Will Felipe find answers in Roswell, NM? And is that a cloud or a UFO that keep showing up in the pictures used for the postcards? Maybe Felipe will find an alien in his travels. He’s hopeful. Or maybe he’ll find something else, totally unexpected.

Deep in the heart of a mist-shrouded island, an impossible secret is about to be discovered. Twig is used to feeling unwanted. Sent to live on a pony ranch for "troubled" girls on a misty, haunted island, Twig is about to discover the impossible -- someone who needs her. Jolted awake from a bad dream, Twig follows the desperate whinny of a terrified horse out to the stables. There in the straw is a bleating little scrap of moonbeam. A silver-white filly with cloven hooves and a tiny, spiraling horn. A baby unicorn. Now Twig knows what secret is hiding in the island's mist: the last free unicorn herd. And a mysterious boy named Ben who insists that this impossible creature is now Twig's to care for. That she needs Twig's love and protection. Because there's something out there in the deep, dense shadows that's hunting for them... "R. R. Russell's Wonder Light dares to explore a world where unicorns are creatures of wonder and power, and girls can find both strength and courage to be themselves." -Robin Hobb, International bestselling author

A little snack turns into a big problem for a friendly werewolf. Read along as he attempts to make things right and save the holiday from being ruined. Practice counting and encourage selfless friendship with the ascending and descending pages of different numbers of snacks. Feast for the Beast is a full rhyming story for kids. Each four line stanza has an accompanying illustration with depictions of the monsters, foods, and cute groups of living fruitcakes. Enjoy this holiday story that perfect for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. And Kraken day, of course! A full course of corn, green beans, cranberry sauce, ham, turkey, fruitcakes, tomb-scones, Slender-Tenders, pumpkin pie, grave goblets, witch's brew party punch, and fun awaits! Christmas is here! All the monsters are gathered for a feast. Felipe Femur the skeleton, Sunny Stoker the vampire, Runny Rotten the witch, and Gummy Garou the werewolf are celebrating the winter season together. Cozy in Gummy the toothless werewolf's crescent moon home, they're ready for lots of good food. While the turkey cooks, everyone enjoys the holiday parade and a Loch Ness pop-star concert on TV. Everyone except for the beast Gummy. He's too hungry to wait and sneaks off for a little snack. Just a little one. A little turns into a lot and Gummy finds himself in a tough situation. Read along as he attempts to make things right and save the holiday from being ruined. An illustrated Thanksgiving and Christmas picture book for kids.

The Monster Book of Jokes is a collection of jokes with a horror theme. Enjoy more than 175 jokes about Aliens, Ghost, Skeletons, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witches. Perfect for Halloween, campfire gatherings, for telling under blankets after lights-out, or anytime you want to laugh or make your friends and family chuckle. Kids and parents can both enjoy the comedy within—puns, anti-jokes, and play on words, etc.! Why do aliens write love notes using crop circles? How do you debunk aliens? What did the ghost teacher say to her confused students? Why do skeletons like easy questions? Why don’t witches wear top hats? What do you get when you cross a werewolf and a vampire? How are vampires like dentures? Find out the funny answers to each of these questions and many more! As an alien might say, “Take me to your reader. Your E-reader, that is.” Enjoy the humorous jokes that have funny fiends themselves howling with laughter. Get your funny bone tickled and be the life of the party with this collection of Halloween humor.

Volume 1 of the Halloween comic Felipe Femur & Friends. Twenty-five comics featuring the cute monsters. Follow the Halloween themed adventures of ironic monsters, including Felipe Femur the skeleton with a lot of heart, Gummy the toothless werewolf, Sunny the sun-loving vampire, and Runny the not-so-wicked witch in their town of Toonstone. More details about the characters can be found at www.felipefemur.com

Deep in the heart of a mist-shrouded island, an impossible secret is about to be discovered.Twig is used to feeling unwanted. Sent to live on a pony ranch for "troubled" girls on a misty, haunted island, Twig is about to discover the impossible--someone who needs her.Jolted awake from a bad dream, Twig follows the desperate whinny of a terrified horse out to the stables. There in the straw is a bleating little scrap of moonbeam. A silver-white filly with cloven hooves and a tiny, spiraling horn.A baby unicorn.Now Twig knows what secret is hiding in the island's mist: the last free unicorn herd. And a mysterious boy named Ben who insists that this impossible creature is now Twig's to care for. That she needs Twig's love and protection. Because there's something out there in the deep, dense shadows that's hunting for them..."R. R. Russell's Wonder Light dares to explore a world where unicorns are creatures of wonder and power, and girls can find both strength and courage to be themselves." ~ Robin Hobb, International bestselling author

Danger lurks in the mist. Twig and Ben are unicorn riders--guardians whose job it is to keep the last free unicorn herd safe. But a new danger is threatening the beautiful, mysterious creatures of Lonehorn Island. A thief from Terracornus has snuck onto the misty island and stolen Ben's loyal unicorn, Indy. There's only one path for Ben and Twig--straight into the secret, shadowy heart of the island and through the passage to Terracornus. But their rescue mission is unexpectedly complicated by a secret Ben has been hiding. A secret about the Queen of Terracornus who has enslaved all the unicorns of Ben's homeland. A secret that could save them all--or start a war.

This book contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to designing and constructing model aircraft. Containing step-by-step instructions and helpful diagrams, this book is highly recommended for those with an interest in model aircraft construction. It would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this volume include: “Airfoils”, “Airfoil and Fuselages for Monoplanes and Biplanes”, “Drag”, “Control Surfaces”, “Aircraft Performance”, “Airscrew Design”, “Airscrew Performance”, “Rubber Motors”, “Testing Power-Driven Airscrews”, “Wind-Tunnel Testing”, “Wing Construction”, etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on model building.