In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war. The wall meant that no one from Communist East Berlin could travel to West Berlin, a free, democratic area. Of course that...

In this Level 1 I Can Read book, Splat, Spike, and Plank can't wait to go to the fair. But when Kitten can't come, the friends are determined to bring her back the perfect gift. Beginning readers will delight in Splat's hilarious attempts to find the perfect present.

Splat's friends are having a band rehearsal for their rock band, the Cat Gang. They want Splat to play with them, too! But what will he play?

Splat the Cat Makes Dad Glad is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. It's particularly fun for dads to read with their kittens, at home or in the classroom, and makes a fun Father's Day gift.

Splat loves watching his favorite superhero, Super Cat, on the family TV, but when the set breaks, Splat has no way to watch his cherished cartoon. Splat asks himself, 'What would Super Cat do?' and decides to save the day by winning a brand-new TV. The only problem is that winning the TV requires Splat to enter a cake-baking contest . . . which turns out to be a little trickier and stickier...

Here are collected the best Eastern fairy tales - with unimaginable fairy tale plots, beauties, cunning and all-seeing spirits, stupid rich people and wise poor people. It turns out that the fairy tale is much closer - you just have to open the book!

This book contains wonderful fairy tales about animals that children love so much and that every child simply must read! After all, they are filled with real unusual things, joy and wisdom! ‘The Tiger Cub on a Sunflower’, ‘The Gray Neck’, ‘The Traveling Frog’ - what could be wiser and more fun than these fairy tales, in which you can fly with ducks and a frog, and grow a sunflower with a tiger...

Amazing illustrations by the artist Yu. Korovin, an outstanding master of children's illustration, complement the atmosphere of joy from reading beautiful poetic lines.

Not all microbes are harmful. Petka is actually useful. Without people like him, we wouldn't have sour cream or kefir. There are so many microbes in one drop of water that you can't count them. You need a microscope to see these little ones. But maybe they are also looking at us - from the other side of the magnifying glass?

Georgy Alekseevich's stories about his native nature are so interesting and colorful that several cartoons ‘Forest Travelers’ (1951) and ‘In the Forest Thicket’ (1954) (co-authored with Vera Chaplina) were made based on them.

Das Grüffelokind ist da! Beherzt und mutig zieht es los, denn es will endlich wissen, ob es die große böse Maus wirklich gibt.Eine echte Fortsetzung des Klassikers »Der Grüffelo« mit zauberhaften Bildern von Axel Scheffler und lustigen Versen von Julia Donaldson. Denn es ist wahr: »Die wunderschönen Bilderbücher dieses erfolgreichen Duos gehören zum Besten, was man Kindern schenken kann.«...

ABC book for the littlest learners!