Paul Galico Libri

Un classico senza tempo: pubblicato per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti nel 1964, Il grande Miao vuole essere un manuale per gatti di tutte le età, e soprattutto per gattini alle prime armi che si apprestano a "conquistare" una famiglia. Voce narrante è una micina molto furba, scaltra e intelligente, che elargisce consigli e rivela stratagemmi su come sottomettere e addestrare "i bipedi". Non manca proprio nulla: dalle puntuali ed esilaranti descrizioni dei comportamenti di uomini e donne, alle istruzioni su come gestire bambini e scapoli; dalle indicazioni su come impadronirsi di poltrona e letto, a quelle su come affrontare eventuali visite di sconosciuti o le festività natalizie. Con tono vivace e un'ironia accattivante, Paul Gallico offre uno sguardo divertente e originale sulle varie idiosincrasie di noi bipedi e ci accompagna nella mente dei nostri amici felini, dei quali sapremo riconoscere, con un sorriso incantato e arreso, tutte le tattiche e gli atteggiamenti qui raccontati.

This is the story of a young boy called Peter, who is knocked down by a car. To his considerable astonishment, when he recovers, he is not a young boy, but a cat! Fortunately, he meets Jennie, a cat who had been abandoned by her family when they moved away, who educates him in the wiles of the feline world. Will he stay a cat with Jennie, or return to being a human boy?

Published to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee

The story follows seven-year-old Mary, whose world shatters when her beloved cat, Thomasina, is deemed too sick to survive by her stern father, the town vet. Heartbroken and silent towards her father, Mary faces her own life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, Thomasina is saved by Lori, the enigmatic Red Witch, and transformed into Talitha, a powerful being with ties to an Egyptian goddess, now returning for vengeance. Themes of love, loss, and transformation intertwine in this magical tale.

The Small Miracle: A little boy requests of the Pope that his sick donkey, Violetta, be healed through a visit to the crypt of St. Francis of Assisi.

Presents stories The Snow Goose - set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is a tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl; and, The Small Miracle - a contemporary fable about a young boy's love for his dangerously ill donkey. schovat popis

Collins Modern Classics are re-launched in gorgeous new covers bringing these familiar stories to a new generation. From the author of best-loved classic `The Snow Goose'.

The story of a friendship that develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose during World War II.

Mrs Harris is a "daily" a London charwoman who sees so much of the lovely clothes of her London employer that the one thing she wants above all else is to own a Dior gown. What happens to her in Paris and what happened when she left its magic for her own London home is the story Mr. Gallico tells in this book