Monster Adventure

Little Toot hears of the monster at Loch Ness and goes off to see for himself. The riverboats make fun of him, the search boats on the loch order him away, the fishing boat won't talk to him. But Little Toot perseveres, and finally meets the soft-spoken Nessie.

Join two intrepid adventurers as their imaginations transform their house into a wild wonderland - and their big brother becomes a mighty monster. A joy to listen to with its cumulative refrain and full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy and family.

La serie Aventuras de la pequeña Nenia a son libros hermosamente escritos e ilustrados para los niños de 4 a 8 años que les ayudan a comprender el mundo que los rodea, las emociones y dilemas. La protagonista que se llama Nenia a nos cuenta sus aventuras cotidianas, a veces divertidas y graciosas, a veces llenas de miedos.

A typical December for the Alexanders consists of gingerbread baking, movies, and looking at Christmas lights, but after their parents are called in to work, Ava, Nolan, and Charlotte are sent to stay with their most feared relative for a week—Great-Aunt Poppy. Have mom and dad gone mad? Of course, the children are terrified. Who wouldn't be? No one believes them when they say that Poppy—or Groppy as they call her—is a witch. If the haunted house isn't bad enough, there are thousands of crazy cats, chaotic and deadly spells, and even worse—frightening howls from the woods.

Geheimnisvolle Meeresgiganten. Seit Finn und die anderen Kinder mit dem Seeungeheuer Big Ben Freundschaft geschlossen haben, kommen täglich Gäste auf ihre Insel, um die faszinierenden Meerestiere zu sehen. Besonders das Seeschweinchen Ballyhoo ist der Liebling aller. Doch eines Tages ist Ballyhoo spurlos verschwunden. Was ist passiert? Für Finn ist klar: Er muss Ballyhoo finden! Gemeinsam mit dem Fischer Connor und Big Ben macht er sich auf die Suche. Doch im tiefen Meer lauern ungeahnte Gefahren.

What do you do when the monsters are real? Legend spoke of people unafraid of pain; the ones gloried in war and death. Indiscriminate killers, they fought past the point when most men would be dead. Unstoppable, they terrorized the lands until at last they were wiped out in the Great Wars. Or so the world wished to believe. On the cusp of transition, Ondar braces for a return to the horrors of the past, even as new heroes emerge to protect the most innocent among them. What do you do when the monsters are real? You fight.

National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson takes the wheel of this thrilling chapter in the race for survival. The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.

Finn was born to stop the monsters from invading his town. But he’d really rather not. He dreams of having an ordinary life, and right now, things can’t get any worse. Legends are running riot. Half-Hunters are out of control. And Darkmouth has been taken away from him.

Neon Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which the New York Times lauded as "joyously wild". In this third volume, an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threaten to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden.

Even as he trains to be a pilot for the Resisters, 12-year-old Ethan Blackwood is still reeling from the news that aliens called the Ch’zar have taken over the world and put all the adults under their mind control. Now the Ch’zar’s mechanical bug armies are growing. The Resisters need more pilots like Ethan, kids who aren’t afraid to think for themselves. Ethan knows just where the Ch’zar send troublemakers like him - to Sterling Reform School. Can Ethan find a way to break into Sterling and recruit new fighters before the enemy discovers the Resisters’ underground base?

Sarah Robinson is deeply troubled in the wake of her dad's second marriage. She now has to deal with a new stepmom and two stepbrothers - Marco, who is her age, and Nacho, who's younger. Even though they've all moved from Texas to California to start life as a new, blended family, none of the kids seems remotely happy about it.

Life has never been more complicated for 13-year-old Marcus. It's not easy trying to hide your secret identity as a half-vampire, avoid garlic, and work up the courage to ask out vampire-crazy Tallulah. Plus, Marcus's parents are still convinced his special power is going to arrive any day now, and Marcus is totally feeling the pressure. As if that wasn't bad enough, a seriously creepy Winter Fair has arrived in town - and a number of terrifying attacks have started happening. All Marcus wants is an easy life. But now it's up to him to save the day.

When Akutak, a Greenlandic Shaman Eskimo, decides to take action against the things that are destroying his country, he uses the ancient arts and creates a tupilak and with it and conjures a curse. Designed in the form of an octopus, this Goliath is going to become Greenland's guardian and do everything within its power to stop the erosion of the ice sheet. But not everyone sees the Tupilak Octopus as a champion and they seek to destroy it. But the only way to destroy it is to conjure something more powerful, and Akutak may be Greenland's most powerful shaman.

Ungeheures Unterwasserabenteuer. Als die Kinder einer kleinen schottischen Insel Finn zu einer Mutprobe überreden, ahnen sie nicht, welch hohe Wellen ihre unbedachte Idee auslösen wird. Denn der kleine steinige Flecken vor der Küste, auf dem Finn eine Nacht verbringen soll, ist ein schlafendes Meeresungeheuer! Und wenn so ein Wesen nach vielen hundert Jahren wieder aufwacht, dann braucht es ganz schön viel Mut, um sich ihm entgegenzustellen - und noch viel mehr Mut, um mit ihm Freundschaft zu schließen.

Meet Ash Mistry: eighth grader, pretty good video gamer, guy with a massive crush on the beautiful Gemma... Oh, and the Eternal Warrior of the death goddess Kali. Just when Ash has settled back into his everyday London life, his friend Parvati arrives with a mission: The evil Lord Alexander Savage is plotting to steal the Koh-I-Noor diamond from England's crown jewels. Ash and Parvati manage to intercept it, but at a terrible price - Gemma's death.

Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom’s class because she’s got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to do battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country and - SHAZAAM! - off they go to a place somewhere far far away. When Ms. Frogbottom’s crew lands in Scotland, they come nose-to-nose with the legendary Loch Ness Monster!

Ozzy is perfectly ordinary - that is, until he finds himself hired as a nurse at Dr von Sichertall’s failing monster surgery. He has his work cut out helping to treat the extraordinary patients, and he has to find a way to save the practice.

During World War II, C.O. Jones, under a different name, was recruited into a special unit of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Special in that all the members had some kind of extrasensory abilities bordering on magic. Their main mission was to seek out and combat the Nazis' top secret Occult Practitioners. But the war is now over, and C.O. is just another veteran looking for a fresh start. He hopes the quiet little town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, is the perfect place to do so.

Ken Rutherford believes in the Loch Ness Monster, and what's more he believes he can find it. While on holiday with his parents he sets out to do just that. He needs the help of his friend Fiona MacBride if he's going to have any chance of success, and when she agrees to come along, the hunt for the monster is on.

Joshua est un petit garçon de bientôt sept ans qui déteste les bisous, ce qui provoque beaucoup de disputes avec ses parents. Un soir, un étrange monstre va venir à sa rencontre et lui donner des épreuves. Joshua réussira-t-il à récolter des bisous à temps et à être plus gentil avec ses parents ?