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....

В книгу известного русского писателя Леонида Пантелеева (настоящее имя Алексей Иванович Еремеев) вошли сказки, а также рассказы о детях – «Честное слово», «Буква “ты”», «Трус» и другие, уже давно ставшие классикой и занимающие достойное место в золотом фонде детской литературы. Все произведения в серии «Чтение — лучшее учение» публикуются в полном объеме без сокращений и адаптации.

Панда Пудинг вызывает улыбки у всех посетителей зоопарка. Но что делает её саму по-настоящему счастливой? Забота о семье, как это делала любимая героиня Пудинг - Мэри Поппинс.Тем временем, у мальчика Криса дома большие неприятности. Его родители всё время спорят, сестра - просто сплошной кошмар, а его подарок на девятый день рождения - сертификат на "приёмную" панду, хотя все знают, что он...

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...

A cute but inexperienced puppy sets off on an adventurous journey into the world around him. He meets the sun, a duck, bees and frogs. Sometimes it's happy, sometimes sad and sometimes it hurts - just life! But everything turns out as it should in the end.

A little girl, Aja, got a tiny, cute puppy from her parents. They named him Rek, but Aja couldn't pronounce the R and started calling him Fek, which then led to the dog's definitive name - Fík. The puppy grew and grew until he turned out to be a giant maxipes. In seven stories, you will learn about Fík's wisdom, how he collected laurels at the racetrack, how he went to school, and even got...