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!

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

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.

See all 1 customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

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.

See all 1 customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

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.

66 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
By Amazon Customer
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

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
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.

See all 198 customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

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

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

The Printer's Devil

Book by Davis, Roger

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

Peter and The Farm House Treasure

Peter and Wade were separated by different decades. And even though they did not know it, what Peter will discover with research of the hidden box and its contents found in the old farmhouse foundation, will connect them both through time. Their relationship will take on even greater meaning as the secrets of the contents become unveiled.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

A Man Who Can See The Future

Intense new mystery thriller - A Man Who Can See The Future by W.J.Lane. My name is Bill and I can see the future. It’s a gift, a curse, and also a career. It’s my day job to read peoples futures and then desperately try and tell them something positive about it. See, people think the future will be a lot better than current evidence would suggest. People think they will be happier, more successful, richer and more content - people think the future holds all the answers and that their dreams will come true someday. I can see the future and this is rarely the case. Then one day I see a bomb site - I see corpses - I see hundreds of innocent people slaughtered in a shopping mall using a huge homemade bomb. I see all of this in the future of Phillip Green; the middle aged, mild mannered, overweight and balding insurance manager. I see all of this but I can’t tell anyone because nobody believes you when you claim to see the future. So it’s left to me, my loyal canine companion, and my on / off again girlfriend to stop him - or at least convince somebody to listen.

William Lane is an exciting young writer from England. Hailing from the eclectic town of Bristol, he has spent many years working as a freelance journalist on various online blogs and magazines, whilst completing many works of fiction. He has also actively pursed various styles of writing in order to hone his craft and gain experience including graphic novels, TV scripts, screenplays and movie and music reviews. At the age of just 28 he published his first novel, A Man Who Can See The Future. He also maintains a regular blog over at wjlane.com, and uses it as an outlet for various ramblings, opinions and promotions. For a few years he was the lead singer and bassist of heavy metal band Circle Sea, and currently lives with his long term girlfriend, their small pet dog and a bearded dragon, in the heart of Bristol.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

The Man Behind the Uniform

The Man Behind the Uniform does not seek your sympathy. J.C. Hall asks that you simply try to understand that going from death and destruction, violence and confrontation to humor and even boredom will affect the soul, and he endeavors to explain how.
The only heroes in The Man Behind the Uniform are the wives and spouses of the police officers and their children, who are being raised by people trying to be normal parents after spending a shift bathed in someone else's blood, trying to put their two-year-old to bed after carrying another into the morgue only four hours ago.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

The magical art of telling fairy tales: A practical guide

Would you like to be able to tell fairy tales and stories in a way which will delight and thrill your audience? Is it your dream to become a really first-class story-teller? How would you like to be able to take your listeners, young and old alike, on a wonderful journey into the world of make-believe?

Renowned story-teller Barbara Greiner-Burkert explains step by step how to choose the best fairy tales, how to lay the groundwork for performing, and how to present your stories to an audience with maximum enjoyment and minimum stage-fright.

Packed with helpful tips, concrete examples and practical exercises, this guide will show that you too can enchant your listeners with wonderful stories while the logs crackle in the hearth and the full moon shines like silver!

Barbara Greiner-Burkert is a professional story-teller. She first came into contact with the art of telling fairy tales while still a student, and knew immediately that this was what she really wanted to do. She trained to be a story-teller and shortly afterwards opened her own school in Munich. It’s a wonderful feeling for her to be able to share fairy tales and stories with others, and to belong to the growing movement which is making sure that the tradition of oral story-telling doesn’t die out.

Barbara Greiner-Burkert was born in 1972 and lives with her husband and two sons in Munich. She is a professio- nal fairy tale teller and uses tales in her teaching and se- minars, as well as in her work as a therapist.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

The Karmic Rewind: Rewind Revive Re-Live

Book to help you REWIND, REVIVE & RE-LIVE Learn about Uncommon Common Sense Learn about new Concept of Future Probablility Sphere FPS Understand Karma & The Karmic Rewind Change Your Karma to live an Abundant Life. So you can make the change get Motivation with Time for Four Changes

Atam Dhillon, born in India and found home in Australia when I was only 18. making decisions in life was not something that I had practiced until arrived in Australia. I have been medically declared dead for 13 seconds after a drowning incident. My parents only found out a year later. He shares the moments with you and his life after that incident. There were no parents to help me with life from there on. I struggled, Survived and made my way forward in life. Kept struggling through the years and finally recognized the deeper meaning into way of living life. Lived in Sydney for more than 12 years and finally have settled down in a little quieter town and the Capital of Australia, Canberra. A best place I find to live a balanced life. After all the years of hard work, I cracked the code for Living Life for what it is meant to be and refused to participate in the age old believes of working for someone else. I recognized the way to Live life Happily and follow my passion to make living for the rest of my life. I want to share with you the secret and the stratergie I recognised and now will share with you through the medium of this book. Live Life, Don't JUST Live. With all respect I wish you all the success. Atam Dhillon www.TheKarmicRewind.com

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

Jonathan: The Griffin Prince

Jonathan He'klarr, a teenage boy from Colorado, didn't think he had a purpose. His mother was murdered when he was a child and his alcoholic, abusive father is hard to avoid. But under the influence of close friends, Jonathan begins to turn his life around.

However, just when things start to look up for him, his life is torn apart. The school bully is more sinister than he seems. Jonathan finds three mysterious books about a land existing only in the human mind. And a destiny is thrust upon him by a creature symbolic of courage and bravery. A destiny to change his life and save our world from creatures born of nightmares and evil...

Live. Believe. Become.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

Give The Fans Sweet FA

"A funny, passionate and heart-warming tale of one football fan's mission to win respect for the lifeblood of the game" - Brian Reade, The Daily Mirror

Peter Farrell is a passionate football supporter who thinks nothing of spending every last penny on following his team to the end of the earth, until one day, whilst queuing outside an English Premier league ground, he witnesses something he's not supposed to see. He is so incensed by what he considers to be a disrespectful and insulting laugh at the expense of football fans everywhere, he decides it's time for the fans to have a laugh back, unaware that by doing so, his whole life will never be the same again.

In this truly incredible and defining moment, he embarks on an amazing protest by simply refusing to pay into any more matches until football fans are given the respect they deserve. This enormous challenge, filled with highs and lows, tears and laughter carries many daring risks, but he is determined to go through with it as a matter of principle. What unfolds is a remarkable adventure that has to be read to be believed. With no prior experience, nor the faintest idea how to do it, this protest is brilliantly executed. The grim reality is, the tourists are now more welcome than the real fans, as they plan our extinction - let them watch it on TV, they are no longer needed.

This book aims to stop them.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

The Fuengirola Teens: Teens Tangle With Time

5 kids from Fuengirola are out riding when one of the horses stepped into a hole. The open ground reveals a door to Roman time and have to face prison by Roman soldiers. They learn to know real fear. A Sorcerer helps them to escape.They saved Callus and meet Trajan , Epictetus, fight villains, free slaves. water with antimatter developed special skills With a Troll they fight a demon, find Gold and make history. But they have their secret door to the Roman times.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Frank R. Stahl has over 35 years of experience as teacher, psychologist and sexologist, he has made thousands of appearances on radio, TV and other media throughout those years, including those around 800 TV programs in different countries and in five different languages. His enormeous succes with his books about TA are now followed by his books about relationships, where he uses humor instead of threats to get the optimal results. After finishing his second book, Drivers licence for parents, which hit the market just a few weeks ago, he now lives in the South of Spain and is working on this series about the Teens from Fuegirola. His 6 children and equally 6 grandchildren help him find the right feeling for his books. After finishing the first book about the Fuengirola Teens, he is now working on the second, Teens against the drug cartel as well as he is outlining the third, The Cave of Anterobis.

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...

Finding a Good Fit: The Life & Work of Architect

Book by Iredale, Kathryn

Most helpful customer reviews

See all customer reviews...