Childrens Museums

This omnibus edition comprises books one, two, and three in the Museum Rats series of children's books. Two children discover their new home has a great big surprise - there’s a secret door that takes them straight into the British Museum. These stories puts a fresh spin on the classic children’s adventure books, with characters that reflect modern-day values and mysteries that needs cracking.

Step into a world where museums aren't just places to see artifacts—they're portals to extraordinary adventures! In "A Funny Thing Happened at the Museum Kids Stories Book," each chapter invites young listeners on a captivating journey through the halls of a museum, where every exhibit holds a magical surprise. From dinosaurs that seem to come to life and ancient artifacts with hidden powers, to paintings that transport you into their vibrant worlds, each story is a thrilling exploration of imagination and discovery.

Edith Nesbit (Edith Bland,1858-1924) was an English author and poet. She authored or collaborated on more than 60 books of fiction for children, many of which have been adapted for film and television. She wrote tales of fantasy, magic, and misadventure in which children in normal circumstances are faced with extraordinary characters or events.

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, composer, essayist, and adventure writer. "The Silverado Squatters" is a travelogue of his honeymoon in the Napa Valley. "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879), one of his earliest published works, is considered a milestone of outdoor literature. The short story "A Lodging for the Night" (1877) was Stevenson's first published fiction, at the age of 27, while Kidnapped (1886) is an historical novel set in 18th-century Scotland, about the Appin Murder.

The stories in this imaginative collection include: "The Queen's Museum", "The Christmas Truants", "The Griffin and the Minor Canon", "Old Pipes and the Dryad", "The Bee-Man of Orn", "The Clocks of Rondaine", "Christmas Before Last", "Prince Hassak's March", "The Philopena" and "The Accommodating Circumstance".

Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. In this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life.

Without a mom and with her dad busy running the museum, Liberty Jacobs was practically raised by the tarantulas, leopard geckos, and rare butterflies of the Walnut Street Insectarium. She loves being the resident “Bug Girl,” but unless Liberty and her dad can snag a big investor, they’ll lose the museum, their home, and the funding Liberty needs to launch her dream business: a butterfly release program called Life & Liberty. The investor meeting is a week away, but there’s a big problem: Liberty has reason to suspect there’s going to be a "buglary" of the museum’s rarest animals.

A punto de ir de excursión al museo egipcio de Londres, Emily se siente muy emocionada: por fin podrá pasar un poco de tiempo con alguien muy especial... Pero pronto los asuntos del corazón dejan paso a una misteriosa amenaza: ¡una terrible maldición egipcia parece haberse adueñado del museo!

Josh loves learning about the ancient times when there were giant animals the size of the buildings, and that's the reason he loved dinosaurs so much. One day at school his teacher tells him about T-rex (a dinosaur the size of a building who had big jaws and was carnivorous) and Josh gets all excited to learn about this new type. He also learns that some dinosaurs used to fly too, such as the Pterosaur. There's a curiosity that builds inside the kids when they learn about something their eyes haven't seen.

Every city usually has at least one library, so some people take libraries for granted. Instead of taking libraries for granted, we ought to praise them to high heaven for all their noble contributions to humanity.

A lovely children's book about Simone, an inquisitive and vibrant African-American girl, and the day she spends with her mother. It's the perfect book for bilingual children since they can also buy the Spanish edition and practice their Spanish. Perfect for children as young as three to 10 years of age. Simone always wants to go, get out, and explore! It's Saturday, and she is about to get her wish. Simone and her mother go about town doing different things, but the highlight of their day is when they go to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Cora and Dot love going on adventures together. In this adventure Cora and Dot go to the museum together and have an amazing day learning about space, science, and math. At school the next day, Cora and Dot are able to share all their knowledge with their classmates.

Bailey is very excited about the school trip to the Museum of Natural History. After all, he loves to dig up bones even more than an archeologist! And besides bones, there's lots of fun to be had with tepees, totem poles, and dinosaur skeletons. Bailey's classmates never know what will happen next: maybe that's why the museum guard becomes Bailey's special partner.

It was 1863 in a town called Cactus Jack and Dr. Henry Corbin who was the town's doctor had grown tired of practicing medicine and was really interested in opening his own wax museum. When Henry brought mannequins to his wax museum and had his grand opening it turned out to be a disaster and Henry was out for revenge. That's when the horror begun for the townspeople.

A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it’s fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.

A. J. and Andrea are taking a class trip to the museum! Their museum guide has been warned that one of them might misbehave. But who will it be?

Erdmännchen Gustav ist in heller Aufregung: Detektiv Fuchs sucht im Zoo den Dieb, der aus dem Kunstmuseum ein wertvolles Bild gestohlen hat. Während der Fuchs alle Pfoten, Krallen und Hufe mit dem Fußabdruck aus dem Museum vergleicht, ist Gustav schnell klar, wer der Übeltäter ist. Doch der wollte nur jemandem eine Freude machen! Kann Gustav verhindern, dass der Bilderdieb ins Gefängnis muss?

Nancy's class is going on a trip to the museum, and Nancy wants to be extra fancy for the occasion. After a bumpy bus ride, she doesn't feel very well. Luckily for Nancy, her teacher, Ms. Glass, has a few fancy tricks of her own. Nothing can keep Nancy from making this trip magnifique! (That's a fancy French word for great!)