Reading Age: 10 to 12 Years

A kiwi paired with a rather rare bird create this beautifully illustrated story that speaks to the importance of differences between people.

Silver Batal, a young desert-dweller, dreams of becoming a water dragon racer, and when she befriends a rare dragon that can swim and fly, she may just get her chance.

2019 Young NZ Writers' Youth Laureate Award Winner What if the universe is somebody's science experiment? Somebody with a strange sense of humour. And a deadline.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific... writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to an English father of Irish descent, Charles Altamont Doyle, and an Irish mother, n e Mary Foley. His parents were married in 1855. Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become an agnostic. In 1882, he joined former classmate George Budd as his partner at a medical practice in Plymouth, but their relationship proved difficult, and Conan Doyle soon left to set up an independent practice. Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than 10 to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful; while waiting for patients, he again began writing stories. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modeled after his former university professor Joseph Bell, to whom Conan Doyle wrote It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes. ... Round the center of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man. Future short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English Strand Magazine. Interestingly enough, Robert Louis Stevenson was able, even in faraway Samoa, to recognize the strong similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes:
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Cute fruits coloring book for kids with illustrations that are very easy, simple and big. 8.5 x 11 Inch With 100 pages and High-Quality matte finished Super Cover. There are lots of cute things to color such as an apple, banana, blueberry, cherry, gooseberry, orange, kiwi, lemon,... cantaloupe, peach, plum, raspberry, starfruit, grapes, pineapple, grapes, pineapple, persimmon, pear, strawberry, currants, pomegranate, soursop, fig, watermelon, durian and lychee. Ideal for toddlers and young kids.
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