Letters from a Lost Uncle
10 best books like Letters from a Lost Uncle (Mervyn Peake): Animals Strike Curious Poses, Hollow Kingdom, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, The Vet's Daughter, The Man Who Planted Trees, Hugo Pepper, The Fearsome Foursome, The Living Mountain, The Midnight Gang, The Planet of the Wind
| Author | Elena Passarello |
| ISBN | 1941411398 |
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful,...
| Author | Kira Jane Buxton |
| ISBN | 1538745828 |
One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
| Author | Barbara Comyns |
| ISBN | 1590170296 |
The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife’s death, the vet...
The Man Who Planted Trees
| Author | Jean Giono |
| ISBN | 1570625387 |
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times. In the foothills of the French Alps the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planting one hundred acorns a day in an effort to reforest his desolate region. Not even two world...
| Author | Paul Stewart |
| ISBN | 0385750927 |
I think this is a fun trilogy – Hugo Pepper is book 3. It's amazing how different each of these Far Flung Adventures are written, yet they remain interconnected. I think Hugo Pepper is my favorite of the series - it was very interesting and like the other two, extremely high quality in both story an illustrations.
Hugo...
Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece...
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0857861832/ ISBN13: 9780857861832.
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing...
| Author | David Walliams |
| ISBN | 0008164614 |
Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning…
When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking...
"The Little Prince" is one of my favorite books but this is just bad. I love the characters in the original story because they are simple and thought-provoking. In this adaptation (which is apparently based on a TV show) the characters have become sarcastic and cheesy. The fox is cute and the art is pretty...
| Author | David Walliams |
| ISBN | 0007453523 |
The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Hot on the heels of bestselling Gangsta Granny comes another hilarious, action-packed and touching novel - the story of a little girl called Zoe. Things are not looking...
