La soupe au caillou

Londres, 1940.
La Grande-Bretagne est en guerre. Alors qu'une menace sourde plane sur sa ville, Eric, orphelin de onze ans, passe le plus clair de son temps au zoo pour se changer les idées. Car là-bas vit le plus extraordinaire des gorilles : Gertrude. Aussi, le jour où un bombardement menace de détruire le zoo, Eric décide de porter secours à Gertrude. Pour cela, il met en place l'opération « Bananas », un super plan d'évasion ! S'ensuivent alors tout un tas d'aventures aussi farfelues que drôles. Et grâce à Gertrude, Eric sait qu'il peut compter sur un allié aussi poilu que fidèle.À partir de 8 ansJeu concours (via une carte postale qui se trouve dans le livre*) : plus de 100 cadeaux à gagner* !*Dans la limite des stocks disponibles.

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Three short zany stories, all featuring weird and wonderful animals with illustrations by Tony Ross.

 The Gargling Gorilla, The Runaway Reptiles and The Dog Magician - three hilarious stories in one volume from an award-winning author with a wicked sense of humour. The Gargling Gorilla is a perfext text for confident young readers, with its accumulative storyline, use of repetition and alliteration and humour. Tim is animal-sitting for a neighbour who tells him which animal has which food and where it is kept. So, for example, 'The cat likes cat snacks and the cat-snack pack is in the tall cupboard. The tall cupboard is beside the fridge, and the fridge is over there on the other side of the sink. However, when the vulture sees the cat being fed, he will get a little peckish. SO the vulture chunks are inside the fridge.' etc. After a long list of instructions Tim finally hears 'and the gorilla is in the cupboard under the sink.' Tim is hugely inventive and manages to feed all the animals successfully without disturbing the gorilla. When the animal-owner comes home, he discovers that there is no gorilla under the sink - just a griller to toast his sarnies with. The real gorilla was out for the evening! This, and the other two stories, will have young readers chortling with laughter and Tony Ross's illustrations enhance the text perfectly.

The Gargling Gorilla

When the Queen goes on a trip and sends back a photo of her feeding some penguins, Little Princess decides she wants snow too. The whole palace tries all kind of things - from sandmen instead of snowmen to mudballs instead of snowballs. But this little royal won't be satisfied until she gets what she wants... and sometimes not even then!

Je veux de la neige !

THREE hilarious and moving novels from the number one bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams.

 Boy in the Dress - Dennis's ordinary life is about to get a lot less ordinary. Why? There's a clue in the title of this book.

 Mr Stink - When Chloe speaks to a local tramp, she discovers there's more to Mr Stink than meets the nose.

 Billionaire Boy - Meet Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in the world. But there's one thing he really needs: a friend.

The World of David Walliams 3 Book Collection (The Boy in the Dress, Mr Stink, Billionaire Boy)

A fifth title [fourth novel] about Little Wolf as he and his friends set up the Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency.

 The fourth novel about Little Wolf, his cousin Yeller, baby brother Smellybreff, Stubbs Crow and Normus Bear who set up the Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency . Following the departure of their main teacher and star attraction of Haunted Hall for Small Horrors, Little and chums close the school to become forest detectives. Their specialities are tracking and trailing with Stubbs Crow being the flying squad; Smellbreff specialising in small clues and Normus Bear specialising in large clues. Written in letter form by Little Wolf, who specialises in appalling spelling, this novel is sure to follow in the footsteps of the previous 3 in delighting young and older readers. Sales of the previous titles exceed 100, 000 copies [including huge sales in last year's Books for Schools campaign] and the books have been translated into ten languages and are now published in the USA too.

Little Wolf, Forest Detective

Il était une fois une chèvre qui voulait un enfant plus que tout au monde. Comme elle ne pouvait pas en avoir, elle décida d'en adopter un. « Tant qu'il est en bonne santé, riait-elle, je me moque de son apparence ! » Mais la chèvre ne rit pas longtemps Son petit n'était jamais content ! Il rugissait du soir au matin ; n'aimait ni le maïs, ni le trèfle, ni le foin ; recrachait toute son herbe jusqu'au dernier brin Il devint très grand et très fort. Lorsque les chevreaux disparurent les uns après les autres, tout le monde accusa le petit de Bêlla. Mais les avait-il vraiment dévorés ? Son enfant était-il devenu le mouton noir du troupeau ? La chèvre et son petit se retrouvèrent alors exclus du village et partirent se réfugier dans la forêt. Mais en chemin ils rencontrèrent un énorme tigre qui captura Bêlla. C'était lui qui avait enlevé les chevreaux ! Voyant sa mère et ses cousins en danger, le fils de Bêlla s'attaqua au grand méchant tigre !

La soupe au caillou

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