Books with title The Discovery

This is primarily a children's book and partly a fantasy/adventure story. However, during the adventures of two children (who purchase a balloon from a mysterious seller at a garden fete) they enter a world where they learn important lessons about the world in which they live and how to protect it, in relation to 'green issues' for the future. Children, Parents and Teachers will find it easy to read, but it also carries an educational message with it.

A Young Detectives Mystery™ for junior teens. Trade paper, Pen &Ink illustrations by the author. Jason Lockwood and Wendy Masterson meet in a small fishing village called Crab Creek and are thrown into a mystery brimming with thrilling action and wild adventures as they, along with a raucous old seafaring captain, try to discover the secret of the haunted Skull Island. For all boys and girls, ages 10 to 14, who like thrilling adventure stories and Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys-type mysteries. Includes glossary of nautical terms. Reviews: "Great, fun novel for kids who like to lay in bed at night and read." and "I couldn't put the thing down, read it straight through and I'm 73."

Simon Spangenberg has no idea that reality as he knows it is about to be turned inside out. After a car accident involving his father, his little sister Sally is kidnapped, he and his mischievous monkey Sesame follow her trail to a hidden forest city. Here he learns of Nature's counterpart to humanity, a magical race called Ælementals, who have been embroiled in a conflict among their own. They are losing to a threat that is manipulating mankind in secrecy. With the help of his new friends Alix, Maya and Karl, Simon must stand up against an ancient organisation, built on greed, domination and something much more sinister, but all he wants is to reunite with his family, which is rapidly falling apart. If you enjoy exploring exotic, far away places, magical inventions and secret histories there are many stories out there to satisfy you, but only one ties all of these together in an epic saga that finds the source of all stories. The Ælemental Journey starts here with The Life Tree Discovery. Simon and Sally are already on it. Will you join them? Please note that this is the revised 2018 edition with added illustrations, terminology list and a secret code to decipher that provides a clue to the second book in the series.

Children will love this delightful and informative book about the furry and interesting koala from Australia. Read about the koala's arboreal lifestyle as well as what makes this marsupial mammal unique and well-adapted to his environment. Learn interesting facts about the koala's habits, size and weight, body styles and colors as well as what makes them well adapted to live in the eucalyptus or gum tree forests of Australia. Discover how baby joeys get their start in life and how they develop into adulthood. This book is a great read-aloud for kids and parents to enjoy together. Older children from 4th grade and up can read this book on their own and even use the information to generate reports for school about the amazing koala. Includes full color images of these amazing creatures for you to study and admire as you read.

A never-before-published poem for children by the Nobel laureateIn the beginning there were just waveshammering at the obstacles . . .So begins a lovely, thought-provoking poem that Joseph Brodsky wrote in 1995. It is about the first discoverers of America -- fish, birds, then man. But it is also about a land that even today is full of secrets waiting to be discovered. Illustrated in collage and gouache by Vladimir Radunsky, this poem is, finally, a celebration of our world -- a world open to possibilities.