Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook

Gavin Bishop

Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship travelled to on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here ar...

Monkey on the Run

Leo Timmers

A traffic jam becomes the ultimate playground for Monkey as he leaps from one vehicle to another, finding stories within stories. Papa Monkey and Little Monkey are on their way. But the street is very busy and they are going so slowly! Little Monkey loses patience and jumps onto the fire engine. Up th...

George's Marvellous Medicine (Classic Collection)

Roald Dahl

"The rule would be this: whatever George saw, if it was runny or powdery or gooey, in it went . . ." George Kranky's grandma is a grouch. She's always mean to George (and not much nicer to his parents either). One day, when George is put in charge of giving Grandma her medicine, he wonders if he can com...