New Releases by Janet Ahlberg

«Que ossos curiosos!» é uma divertida história protagonizada pelos esqueletos de um homem, de um rapaz e de um cão que saem uma noite para passear e assustar as pessoas. Porém, longe de meterem medo, estas simpáticas e alegres personagens divertem os leitores, ao mesmo tempo que também elas se divertem a cantar, a brincar às escondidas e à apanhada ou a pregar sustos umas às outras, até ao momento em que o cão tropeça, estatelando-se no chão feito em pedaços... Para reconstruir os ossos desconjuntados do seu animal de estimação, o esqueleto grande e o pequeno, completamente despistados, armam uma tremenda e cómica confusão. Partindo de uma atrativa capa que brilha no escuro, o hilariante humor negro que se desprende deste livro acaba, também ele, reforçado pela repetição de fórmulas narrativas, pelo uso de palavras que acentuam o clima pretensamente lúgubre da história, e pelo caráter progressivo - no sentido ascendente e descendente - das ações -, que potenciam a tensão e a intriga. Em suma, uma história ideal para ser lida ou contada com certa dramaturgia. Apesar das aventuras deste trio decorrerem nas trevas, as ilustrações destacam-se pelo seu variado e intenso colorido, e ocupam tanto uma página inteira, como surgem dispostas em vinhetas, onde os protagonistas tomam a palavra para se questionarem ou entoarem canções, criando assim um nível de leitura paralelo ao da narrativa omnisciente.

The Ha Ha Bonk Book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is jam-packed with brilliant jokes! This book is full of good jokes to tell your dad, mum, your baby brother, your teacher and anybody else you can think of.

This is the first book in the FUNNYBONES series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. The skeletons venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, but everyone is in bed so they amuse themselves by scaring each other and playing with the skeleton animals that live in the zoo.

It''s Christmas Eve and the JOLLY POSTMAN is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there''s a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called ''Beware'' for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalised Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, cards, etc. Everyone''s favourite postman keeps on peddling his bicycle up hill and down dale . . . and into everybody''s hearts.

A peep into the lives of five families and their babies.

Assim como todo mundo, os contos de fadas gostam de mandar e receber cartas. João, por exemplo, mal tem tempo de agradecer o gigante pelas ótimas férias que sua galinha de ovos de ouro lhe proporcionou. Cachinhos Dourados aproveita para se desculpar com a família Urso por ter causado confusão na casa. E o que seria da bruxa sem o catálogo de ofertas do Empório da Bruxaria, que esse mês oferece uma promoção especial de mistura para torta Menino Fofo? Por isso, quando o carteiro chega é sempre uma festa, e todo mundo o convida para entrar. Mas às vezes - especialmente em caso de Lobo Mau - ele prefere recusar o chazinho e dar no pé o mais rápido possível. O livro, que é todo contado em rimas, vem cheio de cartas de verdade, postais, livrinhos e convites, com envelope e tudo.

Pour Colin, Thomas, Sushma, Paul, Louise, Sophie, Grégoire et Alice, c'est la première rentrée scolaire. Pas à pas en leur compagnie nous partons à la découverte de l'école. La rencontre avec la maîtresse, toutes les nouvelles activités, les ennuis et les joies de ce monde nouveau.

The earliest and greatest works of Greek literature - The Iliad and The Odyssey, have been attributed since antiquity to the poet Homer. This concise book is an introduction to the poet and his two great epics. Assuming no prior knowledge of Greek, the author supplies all the background information necessary to understand the poems. The book presents an overview of the Homeric question - considering the authorship, composition and transmission of the poems. It provides the historical background to the epics, literary readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and an analysis of the poet''s plotting, narrative technique, and characterization. The author uses comparisons between the two poems to illustrate Homeric poetics. A final section reviews the important secondary literature on Homer and offers a guide to further reading. Throughout the author makes use of his own original research, especially on the relations between Greek alphabetic writing and the origins of Greek literature.

Burglar Bill decides to change his way after he becomes a victim of burglary.

This thesaurus promotes success in writing in all school subjects, from starting secondary to completing exam coursework. The book features an easy-to-use format with an alphabetical indicator on each page; a clear, open layout that makes it easy to find information; thousands of synonyms and antonyms based on Bank of English evidence; short definitions for all main entry words that guide users to the right sense; examples for all synonyms to show how they are used and help students choose the right one for their context; and a Word Power feature designed to help extend students'' vocabulary at the next level.

The book shows all the things a baby does during the day: wakes, drinks, climbs, thinks, bounces, rides, floats, hides, splashes, peeps, cries, sleeps.

Derived from The Jolly Postman series of books, this CD-ROM has been developed with an educational consultant to cover a broad range of early learning development skills. It supports Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum in a number of areas including Geography, Maths, Art and English, as the interactive activities enable children to help the Jolly Postman mend parcels, sort letters, calculate postage and send postcards overseas. A stationery section is included, allowing the user to design, customise and print cards, stamps and notes, and there is a connection to the Internet, where stamps created by users of the disc worldwide can be collected.

The Jolly Postman finds himself in Alice''s Wonderland, knee-high to a Mad Hatter, but nothing can stop him from completing his fairy-tale mail route

This wonderfully warm and humorous book will put any preschooler''s jitters to rest. "The first four months of school for eight first graders are chronicled in wonderful watercolor detail. . . . Numerous pictures show the small school obstacles that each five-year-old must overcome".--School Library Journal.

SUMMARY: A band of thieves are captured by the police after they pull off a series of thefts on Christmas Eve.

A baby with an aggressive nature who lives alone manages to acquire a mommy, a daddy, and several other acquaintances to live with him.