Books with author Simpson,

The second Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel! Summer is here, and Phoebe and Marigold are headed to drama camp. Phoebe's expecting some quality time with her best friend, but in a surprise twist, Marigold has invited her sister, Florence Unfortunate Nostrils! While the unicorn sisters head to camp in a magical rainbow pod, Phoebe is stuck riding with her parents in their boring car, wondering where it all went wrong. But at Camp Thespis, there are more daunting tasks at hand: writing, producing, and acting in an entirely original play! The second Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel is a sparkling tale of sisterhood and summer fun, as well as a reminder that sometimes it takes a bit of drama to recognize true friendship.

"A truly astounding account of suffering and fortitude."--The Times (London)Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall but, crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten, was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson hopped, hobbled, and crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching the base hours before Yates had planned to break camp. How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival; a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship."Told with lyrical quality and stunning immediacy, Touching the Void transcends its genre and becomes accessible to readers who have never had any desire to climb a glacier." --New York Newsday"A gripping narrative that should excite armchair adventurers everywhere."--Cleveland Plain Dealer"Simpson touches a nerve of the mountaineering community and the hearts of others." --Los Angeles Times "Riveting, even compulsive reading."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to create an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. For this edition, he has added an epilogue discussing developments in the region since 1990.

It's the last day of school and seven children are being told a story by a substitute teacher when they fall asleep as though a spell has been cast over them. They awaken to discover that clones have been sent home in their place while they're trapped in school by an invisible bubble. Worse, it's now the FIRST day of school. At least their dormitory is decorated with art treasures, their windows open to historical cities like Venice and Byzantium, they have lovely stroll around gardens, and food and delicious desserts appear like magic. Their living copies must know what's going on, but they're not saying much. Is it a clever alien invasion where children are being gradually cloned and replaced? Why does their principal look like a witch? Should they try to escape their gilded cage? Why bother to do homework if you can eat cupcakes and watch 3-D cartoons all day? Besides thrills, laughs, and adventures, there's a bit of first romance, clueless adults, a peregrine falcon, a mysterious substitute teacher, two ghosts from the Titanic, and kids with amazing talents. Oh yeah...there's also a giant asteroid on a collision course with earth. As their substitute teacher says, every story has a problem.

“And you wonder why nobody wants you!”Those aren’t exactly the words young Dawn needs to hear after losing one parent and being abandoned by the other. Left to live with her aunt, who barely acknowledges her existence, it seems as though she is destined for a lonely and miserable life of deprivation. That is, until Ryous finds six-year-old Dawn lost in the forest.With his glowing blue eyes, strange clothes, and bizarre accent, he must be from far away, Dawn assumes. She doesn’t realize how far until he shows her the rift he travels through that connects their two worlds.But why was he meant to find her? And how is it that under Ryous’s tutelage, Dawn shows a natural gift for defending herself with the same weaponry his people use for survival?On her eighteenth birthday, Dawn receives a letter from her mother, written before she died, revealing the answer to Ryous’s long-awaited question. There’s only one problem: Ryous is missing. Not willing to lose another parent, Dawn must break her promise to never go through the rift and ventures into Ryous’s world to find him.

Payton is afraid of dirt. He’s afraid of germs and getting sick, and spends a lot of his time cleaning and worrying over his fears. Payton learns he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). His OCD is like someone in his head is bossing him around all day long. It tells him that he has to wash and tidy, and cannot do the things he wants, like play outside. With the help of his family and doctor, Payton learns how to manage his OCD by putting it in an imaginary shrink machine, or ROARING it away! Learn how Payton, and others like him, make their OCD monsters smaller. You can do it, too!

This delightful keepsake may be the gift-of-choice for chidren this Christmas, as a profound but simple way to remind them that faith—and life—are everlasting. My Heaven Book includes prayers that are easy to commit to memory and to say throughout the day, along with very simple expressed statements of Christian belief that are appropriate for the youngest of chidren.The message of My Heaven Book is one of God's eternal love and care. For ages 0-8.

Amazing alphabet book that teaches children that ABC, with fun illustrations, feel and fit pages, and simple word labels.The Amazing Alphabet is a stunning book, bursting with graphic illustrations that children will love! Typography and illustrations are integrated to give the book a unique appeal. Some spreads feature a raised, graphic illustration that fits directly into a recess of the same shape on the opposite page. This tactile book provides plenty for children to look at and feel, helping in their early learning!

Working at a banana farm turned theme park isn’t how Annabelle imagined her time in Australia. Instead of rooftop parties in Melbourne with her best friend Lana it’s watching her bestie fall for a loser ex-pro skater and sweeping up at Lana's tattoo shop between shifts at The Big Banana. But that won’t distract her from her ultimate plan—to win back her first love, Simon, just next door in New Zealand.