Best Selling Books by Raymond Briggs

One morning, ten-year-old John wakes up to find an invisible giant sitting on the end of his bed. The giant is mischeivous and teases him, refusing to be measured, and playing tricks. But it can be helpful too: it does the vacuuming, carries bags downstairs and does the washing up.

The reader learns to tell the time by adjusting the clock provided to fit in with a small boy''s daily activities. Suggested level: junior.

Relates how Captain Shackleton braved ice, thirst, wind, and storm across eight hundred miles of rough ocean in order to bring help to the rest of his crew stranded on a frozen Antarctic island.

A journey through one day and one night in the life of James and his beloved Snowman helps teach readers how to tell time, in a book featuring a die-cut clock with hands that move.

Flaps and a simple text help reveal the story of young James, who on a magical winter night, builds a snowman that comes to life, taking the astounded boy flying across the world.

A collection of English nursery rhymes.

Related the high point of the French Grand Prix in 1921 when Jimmy Murphy won the hazardous race in a Duesenberg averaging seventy-eight miles per hour.

A snowman takes a boy on a magical flying trip. On board pages.