Books published by publisher Jackal Lantern Books

Take a journey through your favorite book and transform it into a board game! Choose your characters, design your board, and create obstacles and other fun activities all according to what happens in your favorite book. Learn how to take the joy of reading to another level and discover your own creativity. Eleven-year-old Ben Buchanan, who created a board game based on the popular Harry Potter books, provides advice for all children who would like to turn their favorite book into a board game. Along with his co-authors, he offers a step-by-step process, with suggestions for parents, librarians, and teachers, on how to help children transform their favorite book into a board game. The book shows how you can have hours of fun creating the board game--and then have lots more hours of fun playing! Journey to Gameland encourages children to develop their own creativity. Journey to Gameland and My Year with Harry Potter are part of a series designed to enhance the creativity of children through engagement with books.

Citizen Parrot:Tunde has a parrot which he is very fond of. The Parrot repeats everything that Tunde and his friend say. Tunde enjoys the company of his parrot which he calls Citizen Parrot.Tunde's Birthday Party: Tunde has witnessed the making of his friend's birthday at school. He wants his own birthday to be celebrated as promised by his father. Tunde takes the second position in his class and his father makes his birthday party an elaborate and interesting one.

Can there be hope in the midst of hopelessness? What happens to a young girl who is outstandingly intelligent but has no funding for her basic education? Daily feeding is a herculean task. Even having a shelter over one’s head is a weekly struggle of uncertainty. This is the story of Aranna- a young girl in her Junior School.Aranna’s mother income from selling food in a cart is not even sufficient for them to feed on, pay water bills, electricity bills or even the weekly house rent. What hope lies for Aranna, will she drop out of school? Will she be like the average woman around her who struggle to survive till the next day? Women who their husbands cannot afford to rent a room big enough to contain the whole family so they leave the woman and the children in the house. Women who do not have a means of livelihood other than selling a few things at the market or cleaning the house of some rich men or being house helps. That is not the life she wants, she cannot afford to suffer as her mother is. How can she ever achieve success?Ironically, there is just a road dividing between Aranna’s community where everyone has a stench of poverty and fear and Nana’s Estate where life is lived in affluence backed with the most luxurious inventions of mankind.The metaphor of life is quickly seen, as you immediately see beauty lying right beside ugliness. It’s interesting to see light shining seconds away from darkness, but will the light ever overshadow the darkness? The answer seems to always be, Yes! But how will this work in Aranna’s case? How can she ever have the kind of Nana’s life? Nana who has a room big enough to contain everybody living in Aranna’s compound all to herself. Or could she ever be like Selma who has a wardrobe full enough to be a boutique and has enough money to visit the cinemas?Aranna is not even asking for luxury or fun, she just wants to be comfortable. Have enough to eat daily. Have sufficient fund for her education and live in a convenient environment. Can destiny change? What if they can be swapped? Let’s have a read to find.Buy this book: "Changing Destinies" to see what happens to Aranna, Selma and Nana.