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Avoid Being Leonardo Da Vinci! by Jacqueline Morley
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
Leonardo da Vinci was a great inventor, military engineer, scientist, botanist and mathematician, as well as an accomplished painter and sculptor. In this Danger Zone title, readers will learn all about the life of the man who painted the most famous picture in the world, who designed the first-ever fly ...Show more
Avoid Being a Tudor Actor in Shakespeare's Theatre! by Jacqueline Morley
$22.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: The Danger Zone
With the plague still hanging loose in the air of 16th century London, the populace could do with cheering up. The man for the job is a new playwright on the scene, William Shakespeare. You start work at his theatre, but soon realise it won't be easy. It'll take an excellent memory, a penchant for weari ...Show more
Avoid Meeting Typhoid Mary! by Jacqueline Morley
$22.00 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History | Series: The Danger Zone
This title in the very popular Danger Zone series explores the life and times of Typhoid Mary. Read about her early beginnings as a young girl travelling alone from Ireland to New York, her time on an island in a hospital being used to test all kinds of drugs, and how she passed typhoid fever from one p ...Show more
Beowulf (Graffex) by Jacqueline Morley
$22.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Graffex
This timeless adventure, one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, sees the titular hero fight off ghastly monsters in order to protect his neighbours and his people. A mixture of history and legend, the battle-filled epic shines in this brilliantly illustrated graphic novel adaptation. ...Show more
Beowulf (Graphic Classics) by Jacqueline Morley
$9.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Books
This retelling of the first great epic poem in the English language recounts the story of Beowulf, his heroic struggle against the monster Grendel, and his final fight to the death with a ferocious dragon. Barron's " Graphic Classics " offer easy-to-follow retellings of immortal literary works. They int ...Show more
Greek Myths (#2) by Jacqueline Morley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
The second volume of this spellbinding anthology features more gripping tales from Greek mythology, retold in a manner that will engage very young readers and instil in them a love for storytelling. Four different illustrators bring their distinctive styles to the myths. In printed laminated jacket case ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Graffex) by Jules Verne retold by Jacqueline Morley
$9.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Graffex
In Jule Verne's epic tale, Captain Nemo and the crew of the undersea vessel, Nautilus, journey through an at times fictional, yet at times very real, undersea world, from the lost city of Atlantis to the Red Sea. "Graffex" is a series of illustrated literary classics retold for young readers, using a gr ...Show more
Viking Myths: Volume One by Jacqueline Morley
$34.99 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends | Series: Myths
Journey to the frozen north, where Vikings lived, and learn the stories of their gods and monsters--and the world as they knew it. Here are the tales the Vikings told: of gods and goddesses, sea monsters and ice giants, dark forests, flying chariots, shapechangers, cloud spinners, and cunning, gold-hoar ...Show more
Viking Myths: Volume Two by Jacqueline Morley
$34.99 NZD
Category: Myths and Legends | Series: Myths
Journey to the frozen north for this second spellbinding anthology of Viking myths Enter the world of Norse mythology, where you'll find sea monsters, shape-changers, dark forests, and cunning, gold-hoarding underground dwarves. This second volume of Viking tales features more fantastical, entrancing ...Show more
World of Myths and Legends by Jacqueline Morley
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
A collection of mythical stories from around the world. It helps you discover the spirit ancestors of the aborigines of Australia, and meet Mictlan, the lord of the Aztec land of the dead. It collects myths and legends from cultures as far and wide as the Yoruban religion of Africa and the Mandans of No ...Show more
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