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Cuando Christopher Forrester se despierta inesperadamente con un dragón diminuto mordiéndole la cara, su corazón da un salto de alegría. Durante meses ha soñado con regresar al Archipiélago, el conjunto de islas secretas donde aún habitan todas las criaturas de la mitología. Lo que no esperaba era verse envuelto en una misión de rescate a lomos de una esfinge, ni tener que infiltrarse en la guarida de un dragón.

Esta es una historia que transcurre entre dos mundos. El mundo real, donde nada extraordinario parece suceder. Y el Archipiélago, un territorio plagado de islas donde la magia pervive y los humanos que lo habitan conviven con criaturas mitológicas como dragones, centauros, quimeras, esfinges o unicornios. Esta es la historia de lo que pasó cuando Christopher atravesó la senda entre los dos mundos. Y de cómo conoció a Mal y emprendieron un épico viaje para salvar la magia del Archipiélago y a todas sus criaturas imposibles.

A vida de Christopher Forrester dá uma guinada inesperada quando, meio sem vontade, segue para passar uma temporada no campo onde mora seu avô. O que ele não imaginava é que, muito além dos nevoeiros e das lendas de cidades do interior, ali se esconde um portal para o impossível. Num piscar de olhos, ele se vê cara a cara com uma criatura lendária, lançando-o numa aventura que mudará seu destino para sempre.

From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora’s mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.

Als ihr Großvater, der König, einem heimtückischen Attentat zum Opfer fällt, wird Prinzessin Anya zur Gejagten im eigenen Reich. Ihr Vater wird des Mordes beschuldigt und in den Kerker geworfen, während ihr machthungriger Onkel nach dem Thron greift. Gemeinsam mit Christopher, dem Hüter der Fabelwesen, muss sie nun nicht nur ihren Vater retten, sondern das gesamte magische Reich vor dem Untergang bewahren.

It's Christmas Eve, and Theo - left at home with a babysitter - sees an odd-looking star out of his window and decides to make a wish. He wishes that he had some friends to keep him company. Moments later the Christmas decorations begin to disentangle themselves from the tree behind him, ready to wreak a little havoc.... Written with generous helpings of warmth and humour, this is a story about treasuring the people and values that really matter at this time of year.

Aventure à couper le souffle, secrets millénaires et héros inoubliables: une fantasy extraordinaire, par la conteuse anglaise la plus talentueuse de sa génération. " Il existe sur notre planète un endroit secret, soigneusement dissimulé pour être protégé de nous. C'est un lieu sauvage et magnifique, une terre où toutes les créatures mythiques vivent encore et prospèrent. On l'appelle l'Archipel... le dernier endroit magique qui subsiste sur notre Terre. "

Der preisgekrönte Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Außergewöhnliches Fantasy-Abenteuer voller Fabelwesen und Action ab 10 Jahren. "Geh auf keinen Fall den Hügel hinauf", hatte Christophers Großvater gesagt. Doch die Ferien sind zu langweilig, um sich an Verbote zu halten. Als Christopher den Hügel erklimmt, bebt plötzlich die Erde. Sprechende Eichhörnchen, ein geflügeltes Pferd und ein Einhorn kommen ihm entgegen. Christopher kann es nicht fassen! Vom Großvater erfährt er, dass sich ein Tor zu einer anderen Welt geöffnet hat.

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck – found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with the only clue she has – the address of a cello-maker in Paris.

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why. A swift flies two million kilometres in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back twice over - and then once more to the moon. A pangolin keeps its tongue furled in a pouch by its hip, a Greenland shark can live five hundred years, a wombat once inspired a love poem.

Mink doesn’t believe in rules. She loves running wild and free. So, when a zebra appears in the square where she lives and she finds out that his parents have been captured by the evil Mr Spit, she knows that it’s up to her to help. So begins a grand adventure to rescue a whole menagerie of animals—an adventure that will take all of Mink’s courage and determination.

Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.

In difficult times, what children really need is hope. This collection, packed with short stories, poems and essays from the very best children’s authors and illustrators, aims to provide just that. ​Here you'll find animal friends from insects to elephants, high-flying grandmas, a homesick sprite, the tooth fairy and even extra-terrestrial life. This audio edition has nearly 100 contributions from Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Catherine Johnson, Anthony Horowitz, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Onjali Q. Raúf, Katherine Rundell, Jacqueline Wilson and many more.

Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-known characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves...

Fred awoke to find that a snake was watching him and that there was an aeroplane in the trees. It was on fire. Being on fire was a quality it shared with much of the surrounding jungle. After crashing hundreds of miles from civilisation in the Amazon rainforest, Fred, Con, Lila and Max are utterly alone and in grave danger. They have no food, no water and no chance of being rescued. But they are alive, and they have hope. As they negotiate the wild jungle, they begin to find signs that something - someone - has been there before them.