Sophie lives in the city, and her vegetables come from the supermarket. Then she goes to visit her grandparents in the countryside -- and soon discovers how much there is to learn about how things grow! Sophie helps her grandfather through the different seasons, finding out about mulching onions, eating flowers, weeding, bees, making salad, catching beetles, digging, earthing u...(展开全部)

Carol Klein is passionate about propagation. Her own garden, Glebe Cottage in Devon, as seen on Gardeners' World, is almost grown entirely from cuttings and seeds and in this book she's on a mission to share her joy in working with nature to cultivate the plants she loves. Too often gardeners are intimidated by propagation, assume it's not for them and go for ready-grown plants...(展开全部)

Inspired by memories of his childhood, Jordan Scott's My Baba’s Garden explores the sights, sounds and smells experienced by a child spending time with their beloved grandmother (Baba), with special attention to the time they spent helping her tend her garden, searching for worms to keep it healthy. They visit her every day and find her hidden in the steam of boiling potatoes, ...(展开全部)

Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when sheas denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Mooseas family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute...(展开全部)

珍妮弗·乔尔登科（Gennifer Choldenko）来自一个热闹的大家庭，是家里四个孩子当中的老幺。“鼻涕虫”是她在家里的绰号。童年的大部分时光，她几乎都是骑着马在南加州的岩丘峭壁间探险。在珍妮弗还很小的时候，她奇特的幽默感已常常在晚餐餐桌上亮相。从此以后，只要是古怪、好笑的事物，都被她的家人称之为“珍妮弗式笑话”。　 珍妮弗毕业于布兰戴斯大学（Brandeis University），之后进入罗得岛设计学院（Rhode Island School of Design）学习插画。她创作的第一本绘本是《发狂：那只跳月亮的牛》（Moonstruck：The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon）。美国《学校图书馆期进》（School Library Journal）称这本书“热闹非凡”；美国《国...(展开全部)

Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute ...(展开全部)

杀人犯，黑帮头子，判刑犯……通常这样的人不会是你的邻居，但是住在阿尔卡特拉斯岛就得另当别论了。1935年，12岁的穆斯·弗拉纳根随家人搬到这座不光彩的岛。岛上住着臭名昭著的逃犯罗伊·加德纳，“机关枪”凯利，当然还有大头目奥尔·卡蓬。穆斯想努力融入新的学校生活，一面要避开学监女儿数不尽的小圈套，一面还要照看与众不同的妹妹娜塔丽。穆斯一心只想保护好妹妹，不辜负父母的期望，离麻烦事越远越好。可是在阿尔卡特拉斯，麻烦是怎么躲也躲不掉的。< Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. Its 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan an...(展开全部)

A rainy day can be a great day ... to bring the outside inside and let imagination take over! And a few dazzling costumes can lead to a full day of dress-up for the four little girls who know just what they would do if they were morning glories or toads or ladybugs or worms. But even the hardiest of garden creatures must sleep when night falls and the fireflies come to say good...(展开全部)

From one of the founding executives of Fed Ex comes the first full inside story of how Fed Ex came to be one of the world's most successful, innovative, and admired companies. Frock reveals the details of how the company was conceived, launched, and kept afloat despite incredible obstacles.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times, Times 'Every page a joy.' Nigel Slater 'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and j...(展开全部)