Giant Children

Giant Children Review

Giant Children Feature

• ISBN13: 9780142401927
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Goblins. Boogers. Stinky boys. These are the things of childhood, and they're all here in this outrageous collection of poems that look at the world through a child's eyes. Featuring everything from the Giant Children of the title-who flip pages with amazing speed-to a turtle named Jaws, the poetry included here is rambunctious, irreverent, funny, and sometimes even gross. Tedd Arnold, creator of the beloved Parts and More Parts, and Brod Bagert are good friends who have happily teamed up-with hilarious results.

The Little Giant Book of Tongue Twisters (Little Giant Books)

The Little Giant Book of Tongue Twisters (Little Giant Books) Review

Tangle your tongue and tickle your funny bone with hundreds of wacky word combinations. This crazy A-Z collection contains plenty of funny phrases, ridiculous rhymes, and silly sentences. Challenge your mouth muscles as you attempt to say these tongue twisters quickly, correctly, and more than once! Think your tongue can take it? Try these: * "Bennie bought a bright brown blouse for Bonnie, but Bonnie believed Bennie bought a better bright blue blouse for Betty." * "I saw Esau kissing Kate. Fact is, we all three saw. I saw Esau, he saw me, and she saw I saw Esau." * "Nine nimble nobleman nibbled nuts." * "Mr. Spinks thinks the sphinx stinks." With plenty of zany illustrations to add to the fun, this little giant collection of jumbo speech jumblers will keep you and your friends cracking up for hours. Remember, when it comes to tongue twisters, the tougher the better! So rev up your vocal chords, loosen your lips, and get ready to trip over your tongue and have lots of laughs. 352 pages, 340 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Lonesome George, the Giant Tortoise

Lonesome George, the Giant Tortoise Review

Describes the life of Lonesome George, the last living Pinta Island giant tortoise, from his search for food on the Galapagos island to his days at the Charles Darwin Research Station, where scientists are encouraging him to mate.

Goosebumps: Hall of Horrors #2: Night of the Giant Everything

Goosebumps: Hall of Horrors #2: Night of the Giant Everything Review

Welcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand's Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.

When 11-year-old Steven Sweeney is tricked into drinking a strange mixture of chemicals by his classmates, things begin to get strange. Either his toothbrush is growing, or he is shrinking! Steven has to navigate his way through gigantic dust bunnies, enormous birds, and other once seemingly harmless, everyday items to get to his best friend's house for help. Will he be able to make it through the day and return to his original size?

D'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants

D'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants Review

This book brings to life the ancient myths that the Norse people invented about their gods with a lively and entertaining style. Black-and-white and full-color illustrations.

When the Giants Were Giants: Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball

When the Giants Were Giants: Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball Review

Baseball's golden age during the 1920s and 1930s lives again in an insightful look at the career of Bill Terry of the New York Giants, a great player-manager whose reputation as a harsh and stingy man was largely undeserved.

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput TroupeA Dwarf Familys Survival of the Holocaust

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput TroupeA Dwarf Familys Survival of the Holocaust Review

In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput TroupeA Dwarf Familys Survival of the Holocaust Feature

• ISBN13: 9780786715558
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This remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarfs, bears witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitzes' fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them endure the Holocaust. Through dogged research and interviews with Perla, the youngest Ovitz daughter and last surviving sibling, and other relatives, authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev weave the tale of a beloved and successful family of performers who were popular entertainers in Central Europe until the Nazis deported them to Auschwitz in May 1944. Descending from the transport train into the hell of the concentration camp, the Ovitz family—known widely as the Lilliput Troupe—was separated from other Jewish victims. When Dr. Josef Mengele was then notified of their arrival, he assigned them to sequestered quarters. His horrific "research" on twins and other genetically unique individuals already under way, Mengele had special plans for the Ovitzes. The authors chronicle Mengele's loathsome experiments upon the family members, the disturbing fondness he developed for these small people, and their interminable will to make it out alive. Dozens of telling photographs are included in this horrifying yet remarkable tale of survival.

The Trailsman (Giant): Desert Duel

The Trailsman (Giant): Desert Duel Review

A GIANT TRAILSMAN ADVENTURE

Fargo's hunt for a missing Chinese beauty leads him all the way to the wastelands of Death Valley, where the monstrous Tobias Cain has transformed the desert landscape into an oasis fed by a secret water source and an unlimited supply of Chinese slave labor. Now, Fargo is going to take Cain and his entire vile operation down.

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era Review

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era Feature

• ISBN13: 9780470310434
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In When Giants Fall, Panzner makes his case for the turbulent economic changes that will be occurring over the next few years and examines the resulting economic opportunities.

According to Panzner, the economic changes will be widespread. Businesses will struggle amid wars, shortages, logistical disruptions, and a breakdown of the established monetary order. Individuals will be forced to rethink livelihoods, lifestyles, living arrangements, and locales. Political structures will be in flux, as local leaders gain influence at the expense of national authorities. For many people, it will be nothing short of a modern Dark Ages, where each day brings fresh anxieties, unfamiliar risks, and a sense of foreboding.

However, for those enlightened few who understand what is really going on and what happens next, the chaotic years ahead represent the opportunity of a lifetime - a time when they can realize goals they never thought possible and achieve a level of wealth, security, and inner peace that will leave them head-and-shoulders above everyone else. In this book, Panzner offers cutting-edge insights and strategies that will enable readers to stay well ahead of the game during the uniquely unsettling period ahead.

Giant Steps

Giant Steps Review

Hardcover in Mylar Protected Dust Jacket XLIBRARY with usual library treatments, markings, etc... Ships daily

Eaten By a Giant Clam

Eaten By a Giant Clam Review

The history of natural science across its many disciplines, including zoology, botany, geology or even malacology (the study of molluscs) is often a case of truth being stranger than fiction. There are countless stirring, occasionally alarming, natural history adventure stories to be told, rollicking tales of men and women risking life and limb in the name of science and in the cause of the broadening of human knowledge. Eaten By A Giant Clam focuses on the work of these natural scientists in the field. It comprises 25 stories, with an unapologetic focus on the heyday of natural history endeavours between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Each story surveys the life and career of the scientist, with the main focus being career highlights and their most striking adventures. Illustrations include many beautiful coloured natural science plates. This fascinating book ranges in content from the humorous to the tragic, from the virtually unbelievable to the inspirational. Key points: a fascinating addition to the currently very popular category of the history of natural science and exploration; quotes from scientists' journals add interest to the book; the featured scientists include famous and lesser known characters from around the world

A Book of Giants

A Book of Giants Review

Giants are as old as story-telling itself - and as varied. The stories in this book come from many countries - England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Rumania, and Russia. In these eighteen tales, Ruth Manning-Sanders writes of such old friends as the famous giant who lived above the bean-stalk, whose "Fee! Fi! Foh! Fum! I smell the blood of a Christian man!" has delighted generations of children. She also includes stories of less familiar giants such as Sneezy Snatcher and Cucullin. Mrs. Manning-Sanders tells the stories with wit and good humor. There is not a word wasted: straightway you are at a giant's table sharing a feast conjured up merely by rapping on the table and saying, "The dinner of an emperor"; or taking bites from a loaf and seeing every mouthful turn to gold.

The Brothers Karamazov (Giant Thrifts)

The Brothers Karamazov (Giant Thrifts) Review

The Brothers Karamazov (Giant Thrifts) Feature

• ISBN13: 9780486437910
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This brilliant work by one of Russia's foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.

Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715

Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715 Review

An "invisible giant," the seventeeth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy; yet it has received incomplete treatment and is poorly understood. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of officers, leadership, administration, logistics, weaponry, tactics, field warfare, and siegecraft. The portrait that emerges differs from what current scholarship might have predicted. Instead of claiming that a "military revolution" transformed warfare, Lynn stresses evolutionary change. Questioning widely-held assumptions about state formation and coercion, he argues that this standing army was primarily devoted to border defense, and only rarely to internal repression.

Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant Review

Paul Stump has written extensively on the English progressive rock scene. An outspoken commentator, he examines one of progressive rock's most complex but most rewarding bands-Gentle Giant. With his usual insightful and distinctive view of the subject matter at hand, he takes us back to a time when bands were not embarrassed to conjure up a whole mixture of styles just to see what happened.

Paul Stump is also the author of Go Ahead John: The Music of John McLaughlin and Digital Gothic: a Critical Discography of Tangerine Dream.

THUNDERBIRDS: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds

THUNDERBIRDS: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds Review

In this compelling compilation of evidence, researcher Mark Hall presents the case for terrifying, monstrous bird that has roamed our continents since the days of the ancient legends of the Thunderbird. Some very large birds are being sighted in the skies over North America. Described as an enormous black bird with a white ring around its long neck and a wingspan of up to 20 feet and more, this giant bird of prey has been sighted from Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest, and into the Midwest, Appalachia, and Pennsylvania. The accounts are puzzling and hard to believe yet eyewitnesses swear by what they saw. Evidence from around the world indicates that our ancestors knew and feared the bird, which can carry away small children and animals.

The Little Giant Book of Kids' Games

The Little Giant Book of Kids' Games Review

No kid in your house will ever say, "I'm bored" again. So much fun from such a little book! Over 200 wild and exciting games for kids of all ages, both indoors and out, feature: * Dozens of games with balloons and soap bubbles, hiding games, and relay races. * Blindfold games. Guessing games. Many variations on Musical Chairs and Simon Says. * Games with ping-pong balls and electric fans. * Lots of concentration and memory games. * Eight different Frisbee games. Fifteen relay races. Eight marbles competitions. * 21 games you can play with a basketball or baseball. * Novelty games using simple but fun streamer balls and twister sticks. * Games with names like Cape in the Mud, Dizzy Race, Giggle Ball, Punch Ball, and Swamp Monster. With so many games for one or two and for groups up to a dozen, you can turn your house and yard into a magical world with hours of fun from ordinary tables and chairs, soda straws and coins, balls and bats, bowls of water and cardboard boxes. Every game comes complete with instructions, rules, tactics, and techniques for winning. They're perfect for parties and picnics and rainy days--and just for times when kids need to stretch their muscles and exercise their brains and learn the fun of teamwork. 352 pages, 80 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.