When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will—a boy on the run, a murderer—a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will...

Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk. But Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. It's no fair. Why does Lindy always have all the luck?Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She'll show Kris. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things....

When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything.Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey,...

The book of the famous Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (real name Aleksey Ivanovich Eremeev) includes fairy tales, as well as stories about children - 'Honest Word', 'The Letter' You ',' Coward 'and others that have long become classics and occupy a worthy place in golden fund of children's literature.

Pudding the Panda makes everyone smile at Edinburgh Zoo. But what would make her truly happy is a family to take care of - like her heroine, Mary Poppins. Meanwhile, Callum is having a hard time at home. His parents keep arguing, his sister is annoying and his ninth birthday gift is a certificate for an 'adopted' panda when all he wanted was Lego. Then by a twist of fate, the unbelievable...

'War Alphabet' is one of the stories of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She started writing back in 2015, when Yevhen Stepanenko was fighting in the East of Ukraine as part of a medic unit, and his daughter Solya was waiting for her dad from the front in peaceful Kyiv. This is an honest and touching conversation about war and life for everyone: both children and adults.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

The book The Story of a Dog and a Cat is a classic work of children's literature. It was first published in 1929 and has delighted many children and their parents since then. The dog and the cat live together in a little house and run their small household and want to do everything like grown-ups, they wash the dirty floor, bake a cake, go for a walk on Sundays, write letters to children or put...

The adventures with Mole and his friends, a mouse, a frog, a hedgehog and a bunny, never end. In the middle of nature, they experience their small and big joys and worries so close to small children – they frolic by the water, play in the forest, do sports, paint, and most importantly, they invent pranks. Thirteen humorously illustrated stories are complemented by charming verses by Jirí Žácek.

A book full of fantasy, wonderful ideas and unique humor! A quirky nine-year-old girl, Pippi, with an unusual behavior, name and appearance, experiences many cheerful adventures with her friends. One day she even sets off by boat to visit her father, who is the black king on a distant island...