Travelling Backwards

Lizzie is upset. Her grandfather is very ill and she realises that he will soon die. She begs her friend Mrs May to give her something to make him better. Mrs May gives her a potion with the warning that Grandfather must not drink too much.

The effect is startling. Grandfather becomes much younger and more vigorous with each sip. Of course, he pays no heed to Mrs May's warning until the process of getting younger becomes a little too extreme.

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Time-Travelling Underpants

A fantastic collection of poems from the wonderful James Carter, in which he talks about amazing inventions, teaches us how to play air guitar, explores nature, visits outer space, writes a fantasy Christmas list, and gives us invaluable advice about time-travelling underpants.

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Casper Candlewacks in the Time Travelling Toaster

Casper Candlewacks is the only boy with any sense in a village full of idiots...the fourth and final instalment in the hilarious Casper Candlewacks series. Most villages have an idiot but Casper's village is full of them. So being bright makes Casper something of an outsider. Luckily Casper has Lamp to him company - his less-than-bright best mate who is also a strangely ingenious inventor. Lamp's latest invention is a time-travelling toaster - or so he says. But can a toaster really transport them through space and time? Or will they both just end up as toast? This is the final tale in the hilarious Casper Candlewacks series. You'd have to be an idiot to miss it!

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The Time-Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure

Ka the time-travelling cat has disappeared again, and Topher knows that she is in terrible danger. For Ka has gone to Tudor England, a time when cats were tortured. Topher must try to find her, and in doing so, meets up with Doctor Dee - magician and astronomer to Queen Elizabeth I. But Doctor Dee is searching for something far more important than a cat. He must satisfy the Queen by finding the elusive Philosopher's Stone...Another amazing adventure with Ka and Topher from Julia Jarman.

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The Time-Travelling Cat and the Roman Eagle

Ka, the time-travelling cat, has vanished again, leaving a clue, a Roman word on Topher's computer - 'Ca;;LLevA'. At first, Topher isn't worried. Surely she's safe among the cat-loving Romans? But when he follows her to Roman Britain, they're both soon embroiled in conflict. As oppressed Britons fight the Romans, Topher faces a desperate choice - should he help his British brother or his Roman friend?

Another thrilling adventure for older children about Ka and Topher, from best-selling author Julia Jarman.

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Vlad the Drac Goes Travelling

Vlad the Drac wants a holiday, and although there are lots of travel guides around, nothing seems very suitable for a vegetarian vampire. Vlad is disgusted and decides that there is only one solution to the problem - he'll have to write one himself! What's more, he'll take the entire Stone family with him on his travels! New York, London, Paris - where would a nicely brought up vampire like to go for his holidays?

Another hilarious adventure with Vlad the Drac, from bestselling author Ann Jungman.

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The Travelling Companion

This enchanting tale of the journey taken by a youngster together with his mysterious friend, leads the listener into a unverse of magic and mystery: a princess who is a witch, a giant who likes to eat human eyes, a miserable king, a garden of bones...these are some of the ingredients of this fetching story. An audio-dramatization with full cast, sound effects, and 'audio-ambience' created for you by AudioscapePlayers.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great story, with wonderful illustrations
By Kevin
We read this to our children some years. It was a joy for all of us.
Well illustrated and true to Hans Christian Andersen's christian beliefs.

Really such an imaginative tale. There were others printed in this series and I'm trying to locate.

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Time-Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Goddess, The

Ka is the most beautiful cat that Topher Hope has ever seen. But Ka is no ordinary cat and though she chooses to live with Topher, in present-day England, she sometimes disappears for days at a time.

Topher decides he must try and follow her. His first incredible journey leas him through time and space to Ancient Egypt, where he finds danger - and the key to Ka's extraordinary devotion.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Very good cat book - not just for children
By A Customer
This book is good and not just for children. I read it when I was 13 and found it really good - I think its probably more suitable for people over 6 or 7 anyway. The boy is very likeable and the cat in it is wonderful. It makes you really want to read on and find out about the cat (Ka) and ancient Egypt. Go and buy this book - you will enjoy it and its a great book for people who like cats. Also its got a good sub plot with the boys relationship with a deaf girl and its a really likeable story.

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The Travelling Companion

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

The world of Hans Christian Andersen is seen through the eyes of children. There is the everyday wonder of an ugly duckling being transformed into a swan; the puffed-up Emperor being fooled by his own importance; the tender tragedy of a little match girl; the upright honesty of John rewarded by his traveling companion. By bringing true feelings to these stories, Andersen's tales have become part of universal folklore.

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151 of 160 people found the following review helpful.
Best of its Kind
By Amazon Customer
I have been slowly (so veeeerrry slooooowlllly) working my way through all the Hans Christian Andersen books available for kindle. This is the only one I would suggest reading.

Not only does this version have an active table of contents and lack any of the distracting misplacement of page numbers and illustration names that several of the others have (although it's still not illustrated), but it contains what appears to be every story ever written by Hans Christian Andersen!

Long stories (The Ice Maiden), short stories (The Princess and the Pea), well-known stories (The Little Mermaid), unknown stories (She was Good for Nothing) and dozens of others are all contained within these e-ink pages!

They are also readable! This is not the case with some of the other HCA books on kindle. The stories are still really boring, occasionally tedious, generally depressing and often religious, but yet I can read them without wanting to scream and pull my hair out as I did with What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales. Instead they are somehow magically more approachable and I can almost remember why I loved Hans Christian Andersen so much as a child (selected stories from, at least).

So if you, like me, are determined to try and re-visit your childhood via fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen no matter what, at least take pity on yourself--or pity on your children if you're trying to read the stories to them--and read this version.

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Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Includes a few long stories (The Shoes of Fortune; The Snow Queen) and a bunch of short stories (The Emperor's New Clothes; The Real Princess) by Hans Christian Andersen, although this is by no means all that he wrote.

A more definitive collection of his work is Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

Stories included are:

The Emperor's New Clothes
The Swineherd
The Real Princess (this is the Princess and the Pea)
The Shoes of Fortune
The Fir Tree
The Snow Queen
The Leap-Frog
The Elderbush
The Bell
The Old House
The Happy Family
The Story of a Mother
The False Collar
The Shadow
The Little Match Girl
The Dream of Little Tuk
The Naughty Boy
The Red Shoes

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A wonderful book for adults and children
By Guinevere Cuthbert
I have always been a fan of the original versions of fairy tales, so I picked this book up a few years ago, just to read for myself. A few weeks ago my six year old found it hidden among my millions of other books, and asked me to read it to her. While easy to read silently, it is a bit hard to get into the rythm of the wording at first, but after stumbling through a few paragraphs, it becomes much easier to handle.
Since the discovery of this book, my children have been requesting stories from it almost every night. At first my three year old complained about the lack of pictures (it really isn't "fully illustrated"), but she quickly got over that and enjoys listening to every story. Both of my older children like to compare these stories to ones they've seen on TV, or read in the few modernized fairy tale books we own (given to us by friends and relatives). Maybe my children are warped - which is very likely - but they prefer the original stories, with their not-so-happy, and often times violent, endings.
I've never been one to believe children need to have their reality padded... real life doesn't always end the way we hoped, so neither should stories. Hopefully this book, and ones like it, will be a bedtime favorite for years to come.

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Woody's World Turns Left . . . Into Australia

Woody is funny, witty and writes in a unique style which educates and informs, guaranteed to make you laugh. A former dancer from Kent, now living in Surrey, Woody always sees the bright side of life and tells it like it is. Currently expanding his writing to include humorous Romance.

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True Cost - Our Deadly Consumption

After losing his wife, Wil is looking for a fresh start with his daughter in the remote west coast town of Prince Sound. But TRUE COST, a mobile computer app he creates to help his daughter at school gives him anything but. Steph is a chemical engineer and heads a multi million dollar firm in Toronto, specializing in fracking in the oil patch. The unexpected death of her only brother gives her something she never wanted – a child to care for and a challenge to her values. Wil and Steph’s geographical and ideological chasms begin to evaporate as they are plunged into a the most powerful game of corporate espionage the world has ever seen. TRUE COST is a blessing and an apocalypse. It evaluates products world wide on health, labour and environmental criteria, and goes unexpectedly viral. Soon Prince Sound, and then the world, are changing what they purchase, and what they don’t. Such a shift creates a tsunami of attention, as well as powerful enemies who are losing billions of dollars. Wil and Steph, his new venture capital partner, are hunted by the clandestine and all reaching arms of the corporate underworld who will stop at nothing to take TRUE COST offline, permanently. From China to Toronto, New York to Costa Rica, Wil and Steph try and evade the hidden assassins as they attempt and get the next version of TRUE COST up and running. Save the world or save themselves? It is a choice they need to make at every turn. Steph’s character is one of survival and success in a male dominated industry. She is as tough as it comes until that moment that touches her in a place she promised she would keep buried forever.

A business performance consultant and professional speaker, Scott Armstrong is an outdoor adventurer and environmentalist, living in Vancouver, Canada. His creation of a leading animal welfare program, and AdventureFive-0, a dedicated group volunteering in Kenya and Vietnam, highlight an ongoing concern for global well being. Scott has authored two previous books - Start Me Up – A Guide for Young Entrepreneurs, and a youth adventure novel, Fire Wolves.

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Travelling with Kids on a Budget

If you haven’t travelled with children before, this book is for you. If you have travelled with children and it didn’t go to plan, then this book is for you to. On a trip to Fiji with hubby and two children, I realised just how much work and effort we had put in just for a seven day holiday. Travelling with children is a whole different world. You can no longer pack your bags on a minutes notice and fly to the other side of the world. Travelling with children takes organisation and you need to mentally and physically prepare yourself for your fun filled family holiday. Hubby and I spent time researching and planning our family holiday which I know will help other families. This book is different to other travel books for it is very practical. There is a space to write down everything you can think of that will make your family holiday a success. There is space provided to write down all your fantastic ideas while you are on holidays. I came up with this idea to write this book while on holidays. Dreams can come true, especially if you write them down. The book is a memoir of your holiday. In years to come you can refer back to it. You can relive all those great moments that you wrote about. Both the parents and children will love it. The book is fun, quirky with holiday/family pictures and it is extremely practical.

Fiona Neumann – Biography Fiona adores her family, they mean the world to her. Her hubby Matt and boys, Alex and Thomas give her their unconditional love and support for every new venture she embarks on. Her latest venture is writing a book which will appeal to parents around the world called Travelling with Kids on a Budget. They went on a family holiday to Fiji and Fiona came up with the idea to share her knowledge with the world. Travelling with kids is not easy, but it can be a lot of fun, you just need to plan ahead and be extremely flexible once you arrive at your holiday destination. Both Fiona and her hubby enjoy travelling and want to continue to travel with their children, so hopefully they will one day share the passion for travelling also.

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Travelling with Children for 0-6 Years Old kids - Growth

Parents must have intent of traveling with children: make travel plans together with the child, let the child to spend some money freely, pay close attention to his or her needs and feelings, bring him some life experience, help him organize travelling notes ... ... Please carry on each warm trip with your children with calm and happy. Because Each experience on purpose will bring the child with emotion understanding which will accompany their whole life other than only happy of travelling and playing.

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Travelling Musicians

A picture book for children

Kady MacDonald Denton has illustrated numerous children's titles, including Before I Go to Sleep, 'Til All the Stars Have Fallen and A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes, which won the Governor General's Award. She lives in Peterborough, Ontario.

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Travelling kids paris

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Traveling on a Shoestring : Making the most of your

Travelling gives you the opportunity to discover yourself and the world. The world is filled with adventure but we will never know what lies ahead if we stay in our comfort zones forever. If we choose to live with our limiting beliefs, we may lose the chance of discovering new places, people, and things. Traveling will open our eyes about new life perspectives and we can only do this by conquering the explorer side of ourselves. There are ways and means for everyone to travel, either by saving a travel fund so you can finally buy your plane ticket in the next 12 months or a short term mission trip abroad are among the ways and means so you can see other places. To guide you, this report offers travel tips and discussions about traveling around the world.

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Too Many Deaths

Nick De Angelo is an American contract/serial killer. He gets killed and is forced for eternity to experience what his victims feel as they are killed by him. Confused? How can a dead man write a book?

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The Tirnano - Book 1 - FINN (Volume 1)

Two teenagers, separated by 800 years, are thrust into a war between ancient gods, will they unearth their destiny? ~~~~~~~ Dr. Jeanne McLennan, seconded from a comfortable, quiet desk job in Scotland yard to the secretive world of a government agency, set up to investigate alien appearances. Following the horrific Holborn Circus incident of 2008 which shocked the world, Jeanne finds herself and Paul her twelve year old son, embroiled in an impossible task. Failure could mean the end of mankind. ~~~~~~~ Paul squealed, bucking under her. Just as they hit dirt, the writhing kid somehow managed to turn. Arms and legs flailing, fists flying, he probably didn’t mean to smash her right between the eyes like he did. Probably, he was merely trying to stave her off. Unfortunately for Winn, the blow came out of nowhere, catching her by surprise. Combined with the raging, rampant, uncontrollable tongues of violet flame leaping inside her chest, licking at heart, core, centre, brain, the crack was like a thunderclap. One moment she felt the insane wrath, the pulsing pain in her skull; the next Paul’s fist cracked against her forehead. ~~~~~~~ THE TIRNANO - BOOK 1 - FINN Book 1 - FINN - Follows the build up by the separate forces for a confrontation with the armies of the Dark Gods. Book 2 - Q'REEM - The tale of a group of castaways, marooned in a strange land and how they survive through the years, joining with Jeanne in the battle with the gods. Book 3 - THE PURPLE QUEEN - The protagonists are united in the continuing conflict between The Gods of Light and Dark. ~~~~~~~

Born in Brentwood in Essex, way back in Nineteen Hundred and Frozen to Death. The only son of an English Father and an East African born German Mother. Father of 5, Step-father to 2, Grandfather to 12. Retired, and Living in Bexhill-on-sea in the 1066 county of East Sussex on the South coast of England. I joined the British Army as a boy-entrant in 1961, serving in a number of countries around the world, picking up some strange habits along the way, including ‘people watching’ which has become an invaluable aid in character creation. Over the years I have developed a deep interest in the pantheon of Egyptian Gods and their followers. In 2005 and 2009 I visited Luxor in Egypt. I was most intrigued by the wall paintings in the tombs in the valley of Kings, which depicted the buried dignity, and his interactions with the Ancient Gods. – The Gods were painted to be much larger than the general populous which led me to consider that they were not of this earth, that they were visitors from the stars, -- Aliens, -- Giants, -- The Watchers.

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The Tirnano

Two teenagers born 800 years apart, are brought together to lead the battle against the children of the ancient gods, the terrible giants; The Anakim. The Watchers have aligned themselves to observe the final moments of their favoured world. The world is rocked by the manifestations of giant, stone clad monsters that appear to be harvesting humans. A strange, diminutive humanoid creature is discovered wandering in the Grampian Mountains. Dr. Jeanne McLennan, part of a secret agency investigating reported alien appearances, is posted to Aberdeen to lead a team to investigate. Jeanne, at one time an Inspector in the Grampian Police, and her twelve year old son Paul are uprooted from their comfortable life in Essex. The creature is not from this world, and is soon joined by others, at first by a female with a newborn infant. Jeanne with Dr. Tom Pinkerton an American Anthropologist, are tasked to discover their origin. ~ ~ Seek the Babe with Brother One Honour the Brother with his Blade of Souls Worship the Mother with her Shield of Stars Remember the Knight with Demons Dead Respect them all - for all are One ~

Born in Brentwood in Essex UK. The only son of an English Father and an East African born German Mother. Father of 5, Step-father to 2, Grandfather to 12. Retired, and Living in the 1066 county of East Sussex on the South coast of England. I joined the British Army as a boy-entrant in 1961, served in a number of countries around the world until 1973, picking up a few strange habits along the way, including ‘people watching’ which has become an invaluable aid to me in character creation. I retired from my long time profession as an IT Tutor in 2008 and began writing in earnest. I have churned out numerous Short Stories; some not bad, some very bad and some which should never see the light of day ever again but all were part of polishing skills and abilities which have brought me to where I am now. I have written two full length novels, three novelettes, three cooperation’s with other authors, this my first attempt at an epic tale. Over the recent years I have developed an interest in the pantheon of Egyptian Gods and their followers. Delving extensively into numerous translations of a multitude of different documents on Ancient Egypt I found nothing which contradicted my conclusions. In fact the deeper I researched I discovered more and more parallels to the three present day religions which have their origins in the Middle East. In 2005 and 2009, I visited Luxor in Egypt. I was most intrigued by the tomb wall paintings in the valley of Kings and countless other sites which depicted a buried dignitary and his interactions with the Ancient Gods. - The Gods were painted as much larger than the general populous, which led me to consider that - other than the easy answer: ‘To enhance their status’ however I believe there could be an even more simple answer... that: They were actually greater in stature than humans, and they were not of this earth, they were visitors from the stars. (Well, that’s what they are in the Tirnano books.) Aliens - Giants -- The Watchers

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Tank Trail T13 : Life Is Legendary!

Tiger I tank Nena is heading for Cape Saint-Vincent. Her crew: Franz Knoblich (a German army deserter), Igor Niks (a Dutch new school caveman) and Captain Barbebleu (a French insane pirate), try their best to find the source. The what? well, they pretty much don't know themselves what the hell they are looking for. It makes a rather legendary adventure though! Meeting some of the weirdest characters society produced they enjoy their trip to the south of Portugal. Life truly is legendary! Original book of the trail: T13 This book is part of the legendary lifestyle propaganda!

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Summer in Siam: Tales of Thai and Other Lands

“I walked out the door, a bit dazed. I had ten dollars and two not-quite diamonds, and it was summer in Siam.” John Borthwick’s first day in Thailand seemed far from auspicious — but it has been uphill from then on. Dropping him in the middle of everything from three-day tribal weddings, elephant polo follies and pristine islands to Pattaya’s bacchanalian nightlife, Thailand has kept John and his pen constantly on the move. One of Australia’s leading travel authors, John Borthwick has gathered here the best of his years of Thailand adventures, plus a swag of vivid tales from his wanderings in India, Xinjiang, the Himalayas, Borneo, Bali, Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines.

John Borthwick, one of Australia’s leading travel writers, is sometimes found in Sydney, but equally often getting lost in Asia. Writer/photographer John is the author of a very large number of magazine and newspaper features on travel and cultures. He is almost certainly Australia’s “most awarded” travel writer, having received multiple awards from the Australian Society of Travel Writers and other bodies. In 2004 the government of Thailand presented him with the prestigious “Friend of Thailand” award for his writings about that country. He holds a PhD in travel literature and his extensive photographic work is represented by the Lonely Planet Images library. John’s books include 'Summer In Siam', 'Chasing Gauguin's Ghost' and 'The Circumference of the Knowable World', as well as the edited collections, 'The Road to Anywhere: Peter Pinney' and 'Off the Rails'.

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Still Raising Hell: Poverty, Activism and Community Change

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Still Hunting: A Memoir

A fascinating story of culture and life in 1960s Toronto Picking up where his first memoir, Young Hunting, left off, Martin Hunter writes of his return to Toronto in the 1960s. He marries his teenage sweetheart, goes to work for the family paper company, fathers three children, and settles into a bourgeois lifestyle. But not for long. His flamboyant brother-in-law moves in with his gay lover, and the Swinging Sixties arrive in Rosedale with wild parties. Hunter writes a play about Toronto’s changing social dynamic that’s considered racy but wins an award. The University of Toronto offers him a position as playwright-in-residence, and there he consorts with the likes of Robertson Davies and Marshall McLuhan. Still Hunting takes readers on Hunter’s adventures in Europe and the Middle East, reveals his stories of working in the theatre, and shares tales of his spirited friends, colleagues, and loved ones. From Greek shipping tycoons to up-and-coming actors to the Maharaja of Jaipur and filmmaker James Ivory, this memoir of a life well lived is full of unforgettable characters — chief among them Martin Hunter.

"[Hunter is] such a great writer that I was frozen at times . . . I felt at moments as if I was reading Alice Munro . . . An exquisite piece of memoir writing."  —The Next Chapter, CBC Radio

"Martin Hunter's coming-of-age story is an entertaining and easy-to-read memoir that puts the lie to the common perception of post-war Toronto as a stuffy, boring outpost . . . Young Hunting is a rare and honest recollection of young adulthood, and an intensely personal reminiscence of one man's passage through Toronto the Good."  —Quill and Quire on Young Hunting

Martin Hunter is the former artistic director of Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto. He has written for several magazines, produced a number of programs for CBC radio, and is the author of "Romancing the Bard "and" Young Hunting."""He lives in Toronto.

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