Most Popular Books by Paul Adshead

A ''whodunnit'' for children of all ages, complete with stately home, zany suspects and one Agnes Crusty!

Paul Adshead''s funniest story explores contradictions of human nature and language, and the nature of opposites. Can Dr Tapioca''s Incredible Reversing Peppermints solve all of Patrick Marrow''s problems? Will they make his dog obedient, his father pleasant, his mother happier and his baby sister less of a nuisance? Or will things go horribly and unexpectedly wrong?

When a duckling is hatched by a chicken, it thinks she is its mother! What will happen when it joins its brothers and sisters in the pond?

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS THE GREEK LANGUAGE EDITION OF ''A PEACOCK ON THE ROOF.''The author-illustrator himself is "The Man who loves birds" in this true story of a peacock family that lives in his garden. Prince is the peacock of the title. The peahen is Pavlova and their three peachicks are Little Prince, Solomon and Sweet Pea. A strange cat frightens the peachicks but Prince is too busy trying to get attention to help guard his family. When he has to be rescued from the rooftop of a nearby house, he causes quite a stir. Children alone in the house provide a good example for what to do when a stranger comes to the door. have extra fun exploring the illustrations to find cats and words cleverly hidden in the artwork. Another bonus is in the set-up of the story. It is divided into six chapters with a very clear purpose: each chapter introduces a new character, a great way to introduce children to the use of chapters.

Prince the peacock creates an awkward predicament for his owner when he flies away and lands on the roof of a strange house, whose occupants do not know he is there.

As Phineas and his daughter, travelling frogs, visit different countries of the world, the reader is challenged to identify each place by clues such as landmarks, cities, rivers, currency, costume, and souvenirs. Told in rhyme, Phineas Frog who has been a bit bored gets a wonderful birthday present from his daughter-a hot air balloon. She accidentally gets a lift up and the two share an adventure travelling around the world. The pictures and the text inform and amuse. At the end there are several activities and puzzles for kids to solve and a two-page spread with the countries outlined to let kids plot the trip and if successful they get to spell out a word that means sailed around.

When a duckling is hatched by a chicken, it thinks she is its mother!

When a duckling is hatched by a chicken, it thinks she is its mother! What will happen when it joins its brothers and sisters in the pond?

Prince the peacock creates an awkward predicament for his owner when he flies away and lands on the roof of a strange house, whose occupants do not know he is there.

Este livro é instigante. Por meio de um mapa o leitor é introduzido na Ilha do Mistério, juntamente com algumas dicas - entre elas, encontrar um diário na casa da árvore. Nele estão as respostas para um enigma, o autor do diário encontrou na ilha um casal de uma espécie em extinção e resolveu devolvê-lo ao seu habitat natural, no intuito de criar uma colônia de procriação. Como não pôde carregar a fêmea, solicita ajuda do leitor para que resgate e a leve para junto do macho.

A tantalizing web of deceptive artwork and wordplay lures us to play detective in this fascinating and puzzling book. Over a million copies sold! The missing letters in the alphabet on the edges of each page can be rearranged to make the name of an animal. The reader must then try to find that animal in the artwork.

Als de jonge pauwtjes eerder te eten krijgen dan hij, wordt vader pauw boos en vliegt weg. Prentenboek met paginagrote tekeningen in kleur. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.

Great confusion reigns in the garden of the Man Who Loves Birds when he allows Silky the chicken to hatch a duck egg and the new duckling wishes to join his brothers and sisters in the pond.