A laugh-out-loud pirate adventure from the stellar partnership of Julia Donaldson and David Roberts.The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat - but he's stuck with boring old fish for supper. Bother! Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew love fish, but without a decent recipe their slimy, soggy dinner is even worse. If only they could find their buried treasure and pay for a ship's cook . . . but it seems they've sailed to the wrong island. Again.Watch and listen to the fun unfold as two very...
The Sea Monsters (Victorian Tales) (Terry Deary's Historical Tales)
by Terry Deary
It's 1838, and Patrick and Grace Leary are aboard The Sirius, set to become the first ever ship to sail from Dublin to New York using only steam power. But their cousin Ben is on board Brunel's giant steam ship the Great Western in Bristol, and he's convinced he'll be in New York before them. With fires causing havoc, Brunel getting injured and one ship running out of coal, which steam driven sea monster has the power to win this dangerous race?
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Stories of the famous shipwrecks, including the wrecks of the Griffon, the Edmund Fitzgerald, and others.
A hilarious new adventure featuring the inimitable Duck and his long-suffering friend, Sheep. Duck decides today he'll beThe captain of a boat at sea.He takes a friend to lend a handBut nothing turns out quite as planned! Things are bound to end in disaster when Duck goes on a day out with Sheep. Together, they set out in Goat's boat but Duck hasn't seen the rock ahead and the boat is going faster and faster...
Ship Shapes
Why the Whales Came (Lythway Children's Large Print Books)
by Michael Morpurgo
Two children befriend the old man known as the Birdman of Bryher and help him lift a curse from their island.
The smallest thing can change the path of history. The year is 1976, and the British Empire still spans the globe. Coal drives the world, and the smog of it hangs thick over the canals of London. Clara Calland is on the run. Hunted, along with her scientist mother, by Menshevik spies and Imperial soldiers, they flee Ireland for London. They must escape airships, treachery and capture. Under flooded London's canals they join the rebels who live in the dank tunnels there. Tim Barnabas is one of th...
Blastoff to the Secret Side of the Moon (Comics Land)
by Scott Nickel
Aaron climbs into a spaceship parked near his house and finds himself on a trip to an alien theme park on the dark side of the moon.
The sounds of lapping water and dipping oars ease readers into the famous canals of Venice, Italy. With mother as gondolier and father singing his calming song to baby, a family floats serenely through this one-of-a-kind historic city, past features as unusual as stone winged lions and golden masks and as comfortably familiar as babbling neighbours and drying laundry. The baby drifts deeper and deeper into Venice’s maze and - finally - sweet sleep.
For fans of Karen Foxlee’s Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes a rollicking debut about a young girl’s adventures in the far reaches of the icy north. When Emmeline’s scientist parents mysteriously disappear, she finds herself heading for a safe house, where allies have pledged to protect her. But along the way, she is kidnapped by the villainous Doctor Siegfried Bauer, who is bound for the ice fields of Greenland. There he hopes to summon a mystical creature from the depths of the ancient...
When two unlikely friends build a vessel capable of taking them to the bottom of the ocean find a missing treasure the truth turns out to be far more amazing.