Michael Morpurgo

A retelling in prose of the Anglo-Saxon epic about the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.

Retellings of twenty-one classic Aesop fables, including "The Hare and the Tortoise" and "Belling the Cat," in updated language.

A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart.

When they are left in the woods by their parents, Hansel and Gretel find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

When her grandfather suddenly appears after having been absent from the family for fifty years, twelve-year-old Cessie helps him escape to Dunkirk to recover his past.

While looking for his mother, Wombat meets many animals that are not impressed with his talent for digging and thinking, but when a fire approaches, they change their minds.

A plucky robin sets out on an epic journey guided only by his longing to return home in time for Christmas.

Bonny thinks she has everything figured out: train hard, please her parents, and become an Olympic cyclist like her hero, Laura Trott. There has never been any other path - for Bonny, cycling is her fate. Until another path unrolls in front of her. After meeting Lizzie, a farm owner and sculptor, Bonny starts to spend less and less time on her bike and more time helping out at the farm. When Lizzie asks her to pose as a rider for a sculpture, Bonny...

"Bertie vive en una granja en África. Su casa está rodeada con una valla muy alta para protegerla de las fieras que por allí puedan pasar. Aunque Bertie tiene órdenes de no cruzar jamás la alambrada, un día decide salir para salvar a un cachorro de león blanco de la fauces de las hienas. Nace una amistad entre ellos que los hace inseparables, pero Bertie es internado en un colegio de Inglaterra y su león vendido al dueño de un circo."--Amazon.com. "Trying...