Books with title The Purple Dot

William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. He was born in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1869. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). His best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).

The Purple Apple is about a boy who moves into a new neighborhood and finds himself constantly being bullied by the two of the toughest boys in the school. But by being bullied, he and his friends accidently finds a cure that just in the nick of time saves the entire neighborhood that has suddenly come down with an unsuspected illness. You will enjoy reading this book. It will inspire you and put a smile on your face. Most of all, it reminds us all that one person can make a difference!You will discover: *The secret of The Purple Apple *The real Mr. Carlton *The meaning of true friendship *How one person can make a difference