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A spectacular collection of four much-loved modern classics from the multi award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers, along with a captivating behind-the-scenes look at the making of each in four fascinating sketchbook sections. Contains the following stories: How to Catch a StarLost and FoundThe Way Back HomeUp and Down Also within the pages of this exquisite collection is a special letter from Oliver Jeffers and more than 100...

Penguin Island is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. It is concerned with grandnarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind and some...

Pippi the Penguin This charming tale by Catherine Veitch tells the story of Pippi, an emperor penguin who is the best at finding food for her chick, Ella. Pippi is brilliant at swimming, sliding and diving - the other penguins can barely keep up with her! But when Ella goes missing, Pippi realises that she needs the help of her colony, and it's time to share her skills. Beautifully illustrated by Jean Claude, this simple tale introduces children to a range of ocean animals.

When ordinary boy Marvin wears his super-suit he becomes MARV. A superhero with infinite powers . . . In this story, Marvin and his friends are ice skating at the Blizzard Zone when supervillain Master Blaster takes control of the rink, determined that everyone stops their fun to watch him skate. Soon, skaters are being frozen solid by the supervillain's powerful ice blasts. It's time for Marvin to swap his skates for his superhero suit and become MARV-unstoppable, invincible, and totally M...