The Children's Story: A Collection of Stories
10 best books like The Children's Story: A Collection of Stories (James Clavell): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts about It, The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders, Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose, National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America, National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
Included are these stories:
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
| Author | Syd Hoff |
| ISBN | 0064442373 |
Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur, created by Syd Hoff in 1958. Now the popular pair are together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers
What would happen if a dinosaur came to a birthday party? Come to Danny's...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
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This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
| Author | Terry L. Jordan |
| ISBN | 1891743007 |
Mr. Jordan pads out the pages of this otherwise-short book with the most basic facts about the great (and not-so-great) men who helped craft the greatest and most influential system of governing the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, he writes with a "gee-whiz" sensibility that begins to grate almost...
| Author | Barbara Ann Kipfer |
| ISBN | 1567315607 |
This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology,...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561633917 |
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
| Author | David McWilliams Ludlum |
| ISBN | 0679408517 |
Interest in our nation's weather patterns is rising -- as witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel -- and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America. The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud...
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians
| Author | John L. Behler |
| ISBN | 0394508246 |
Why are some frogs able to freeze solid and still survive? How can secretions from amphibians offer scientists clues for treating human ailments? What allows reptiles and amphibians to regenerate their limbs? Reptiles & Amphibians, an exciting new Explore Your World™ handbook, incorporates...
The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner
| Author | Ezra Taft Benson |
| ISBN | 0875790674 |
This book is excellent. It's a super easy read (Just over 30 pages long), but it packs a solid punch in those 30 pages.
Ezra Taft Benson, the former Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration, as well as the former president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, brings...
| Author | Jon Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1597802107 |
From the neo-feudalistic slubs and cornfields of Tane’s youth to his apprenticeship among the deadly saleswarriors of Seattlehama—the sex-and-shopping capital of the world—to the horrors of a polluted Antarctica, Yarn tells a tale of love, deceit, and memory.
Tane Cedar is the...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0575043075 |
Nick has a problem. He has a cat named Horace, and cats are quite illegal on Earth. In fact all pets are illegal on Earth, and Horace has been reported to the anti-pet man. The only way for Nick and his family to keep Horace is to emigrate to Plowman’s Planet.
Little did they know that, rather than...
| Author | Norman Bridwell |
| ISBN | 0590442961 |
While this may have taken me quite some time to finish, i find my review of this book will not. Simply put, the idea of a large, building sized dog having a role in the economy is ridiculous- How would they even collect taxes? He's a large dog, surely he cannot file tax returns? Nonetheless, the story is reminiscent...
| Author | David Klinger |
| ISBN | 0787986038 |
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers...
| Author | University of Cambridge |
Senior year AICE/AP English Lit. That is the name of the course that landed this book in front of me.
They sent this book to my English teacher with a letter basically saying that we [the students] needed to know all these stories and be able to answer questions or write essays about them by out national...
