Most Popular Books by Grahame Baker-Smith

A breathtaking picture book about the water cycle from Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith Issac plays in his favorite pool on the mountainside. As rain starts to fall, he empties his little jar of water into the pool and races the sparkling streams as they tumble over waterfalls, rush through swollen rivers, and burst out into the vast open sea. Where will my little jar of water go now? Issac wonders. From the tiniest raindrop to the deepest ocean, this breathtaking celebration of the water cycle captures the remarkable movement of water across the earth in all its majesty.

"Cassi watches a little swift dive and swoop in the still air...Then a small breeze stirs the leaves in the trees, and as the wind grows bolder, a whiff of danger sends small creatures running for cover. Across the ocean, the wind awakes with a fury, whipping the waves and cresting each one with wild white horses. And further on, around the still eye of a hurricane, clouds are carved into a great spiral"--

Kûn likes to imagine life on Earth millions of years ago, when the sky boomed with the wild beat of pterosaur wings. Thousands of miles away, Solveig gazes at the sky as she admires the beauty of the northern lights. Learn how these children are connected in this spellbinding journey through the evolution of our planet''s surface from watery world through ice ages to the familiar landscapes we know today.

Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.

Forced to crash land his space ship on Earth, Jo-Jo the interplanetary collector gets into one scrape after another with his new friend Daisy. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Floating across the sky in her hot air balloon, Cassi watches a flock of swifts dive and swoop through the air. On their journey, the swifts witness the wind in all its majesty as it awakes with a fury, whipping ocean waves and crafting spiralling hurricane clouds bursting with power. Through arid deserts and vast expanses of ocean, Baker-Smith captures the extraordinary migratory journey of swifts as they fly across the world to nest.

Kûn adore les dinosaures. Il imagine la vie sur Terre, lorsque le ciel grondait du battement sauvage des ailes de ptérodactyles. Mais c''était il y a des millions d''années... Commence alors un envoûtant voyage à travers l''extraordinaire évolution de notre planète, avec ses créatures oubliées, ses océans enfouis et ses couches de glace... jusqu''à la petite île où vit Solveig, loin, très loin de Kûn, dans un lagon chauffé par les entrailles de la Terre.

Bang ! Au rythme effréné des tambours, trois jongleurs culbutent sur al piste. Pouff ! Dans un nuage de fumée violette, le grand mage Abdul Kazam apparaît. " Maintenant ! dit Léo. Ca va être maintenant ! ". Abdul kazam lève les bras au ciel. Et la magie commence.