Abenteuer

What would you do if you were invited to sail over the horizon on a beautiful day with the most cheerful group of kids imaginable? What would you do if you could make magical things happen and see sights few children have ever seen? What if you could do all this in one day? Would you go? I did, and it changed my life forever. This book is an invitation to anyone who would like to join the adventure.

From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud story for readers of 8 and up that takes you on a roller-coaster ride of fame and friendship...

Buried amongst the treasures in Professor Brownstone's vaults, lie a humble collection of books. Filled with legendary stories from his ancestors, they tell of fearless fighters and unlikely heroes.

A children's mystery adventure set in the Derbyshire Dales with fairies, magic and a royal connection.

A comedy of animals, led by Chagall the squirrel, a painter and part-time detective and his pal Sabout Tour the snake. They are side-tracked from pursuing the charitable deeds their village has undertaken, in order to search for the black bear cub, BeBop. He has vanished from under the close watch of his parents, during a picnic celebrating the successful distribution of care packages to the needy. Foul play is suspected, as Chagall organizes the village to uncover the truth about BeBop. Chagall is a philosopher of sorts and cautions the Lamina villagers not to imitate the sometimes awful behavior of humans, when dealing with the other creatures of the forest. "Act like the decent and polite animals that you are" is his oft repeated motto. When proposing his new idea to cook, prepare and deliver the offerings, Chagall reminds them that they are all a community, who must watch out for one another. "No only your own friends and family, but those whom you would otherwise consider competitors or even enemies. Even the trees and animals protect each other and warn of dangers. The young animals, fledglings and insects all have a safe place to frolic, caper and imagine in The Gentle Forest, where adults need a special permit to enter. After a job well-done, Chagall congregates all the Lamina villagers to celebrate with a picnic the following day. Most of the animals fall into line and graciously participate in both events, but not all. This causes suspicion when BeBop, eldest cub of the black Bears', disappears from the picnic. Worry ensues. Almost everyone, it seems, pitches in to search for the lost cub, but without success. As Chagall and Sabout Tour, known for their mishap and trouble-solving skills, plunge into action, we see the creative directions that they employ. But this mystery throws a wedge into Chagall's idea of fellowship among animals.This doesn't stop him or his shrewd partners from leaving no stone unturned, investigating everyone and everything. He trusts and depends on Sabout Tour and many other villagers, such as Caw-Caw-Willy-Willy the crow, who acts as messenger and scout. What happened to BeBop? Was a crime committed? Who is to blame?In the pursuit of BeBop's disappearance and final discovery, Chagall learns a few lessons himself, along with the rest of the Lamina villagers.

I sighed a long noisy happy sigh, thinking about what a wonderful summer day it was and how good it felt to be alive, to be a boy and to live in a boy's world. I carried another pail of water, poured it into Ida's trough, then stopped to rest in the shade of the elderberry bushes near the fence. Pop and I had put up a brand new woven-wire fence there early in the spring, and at the top of it had stretched two strands of barbed wire, making it dangerous for anybody to climb over the fence in a hurry. In fact, the only place anybody would be able to get over real fast would be at the stile we were going to build near the iron pitcher pump half way between the pump and the elderberry bushes. We would have to get the stile built pretty soon, I thought, 'cause in another few weeks school would start, and I would want to do like I'd always done-go through or over the fence there to get to the lane, which was a short cut to school. I didn't have the slightest idea then that somebody would try to steal my melon, nor that the stealing of it would plunge me into the exciting middle of one of the most dangerous mysteries there had ever been in the Sugar Creek territory. Most certainly I never dreamed that Ida Watermelon Collins would have a share in helping the gang capture a fugitive from justice, an actual runaway thief the police had been looking for for quite a while. (From the Book)