adaptations

Book reads from left to right. Max and her winged friends must face the ultimate enemy and stop a plot to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race that will terminate the rest of humankind.

Examines animals who can see in the dark, including different kinds of cats, sea creatures, and bugs. Features a glossary, a website for further information, and color photographs.

The classic Aesop fable is performed by a troupe of animal actors.

A prose retelling of William Shakespeare's play about two young people who fall in love despite their families' age-old feud. Includes background information, character summary, and commonly asked questions.

Traces the history of the world's fascination with "Sleeping Beauty," the story in which love triumphs over magic, and concludes with the development and creation of the movie "Maleficent" starring Angelina Jolie.

Text and illustrations introduce flashlight fish, exploring what makes them "light" up, their habitat and the adaptations they have made, how they communicate, and more.

A charming and thoroughly modern-day Scheherazade, Rosie shares with us her piquant and utterly engaging views on life and love, marriage and mating, desire and destiny as she tackles the sometimes thorny business of making her way through life.

"The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world's classic literature--from ancient times to the late twentieth century--as eye-popping comics, illustrations, and other visual forms. In this follow-up volume, young people's literature through the ages is given new life by the best comics artists and illustrators. Fairy tales, fables, fantastical adventures, young adult novels, swashbuckling yarns, your favorite stories from childhood and your teenage years. they're all here, in all their original complexity and strangeness, before they were censored or sanitized"--.

Examines the world's largest desert Sahara, its formation, climate, desert life, early explorers, the people that live there and there stories and festivals.