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Don't Forget the Bacon!
Pat Hutchins
Paperback (Red Fox, Jan. 1, 2002)Dont Forget the Bacon
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Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner, Walter Trier, Walter de la Mare
Paperback (Random House Children's Books, March 31, 2001)If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin, she'd never have let him go. Unfortunately, when his seven pounds goes missing on the train, Emil is determined to get it back - and when he teams up with the detectives he meets in Berlin, it's just the start of a marvellous money-retrieving adventure ...A classic and influential story, Emil and the Detectives remains an enthralling read.
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The Moon Jumpers
Janice May Udry
Paperback (Red Fox, Jan. 1, 2002)As the sun grows tired and drops behind the drowsy hills, four barefoot children and a black cat dance and play and tell each other stories in their moon drenched garden.
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The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawm
Norman Hunter
Paperback (Red Fox, July 1, 2003)He's back again, the lovable Professor with his five pairs of spectacles, his pockets full of all manner of things, and of course, his wonderfully bizarre inventions. Norman Hunter's irrepressible humor packs every page and the illustrations entirely capture the eccentricity of the professor and the hilarity of his incredible adventures.
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Beowulf: Dragonslayer
Rosemary Sutcliff
Paperback (Red Fox / Random House, Aug. 16, 2001)A retelling of Beowulf's battle with the monster, Grendel
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High Deeds of Finn MacCool, The
Rosemary Sutcliff
Paperback (Red Fox Books, March 15, 2001)None
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The Hound of Ulster
Rosemary Sutcliff
Paperback (Red Fox, Nov. 1, 2002)This saga of the Irish Celts is re-told by Rosemary Sutcliff with a magical weaving together of passion and poetry. The boy who takes up the spear and shield of Manhood on this day will become the most renowned of all the warriors of Ireland, men will follow at his call to the world's end, and his enemies will shudder at the thunder of his chariot wheels. So the prophecy went, and as the boy Cuchulain heard it, he went forward to claim the weapons of his manhood. This is the story of how he became the greatest of heroes—the Hound of Ulster.
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Red Classics Greenmantle
John Buchan
(Penguin Classic, June 10, 2008)In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot, Greenmantle himself, modelled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border toface their enemies: the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.
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Charlotte Sometimes
Penelope Farmer
Paperback (Red Fox, Jan. 1, 2002)It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. But when she wakes up, the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before. And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge, dark cedar tree! Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years.
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Emil and the Three Twins
Erich Kastner
Paperback (RED FOX BOOKS (RAND), March 15, 2002)None
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
Charlotte Zolotow, Maurice Sendak
Paperback (Gardners Books, Dec. 31, 2001)None
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Red Classics Thirty Nine Steps
John Buchan
Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Classic, Aug. 28, 2007)Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.