Nermine Papadopoulos has no interest whatsoever in sliding into a pair of glass slippers-or anything else that a princess might wear or wish for, for that matter. As a test pilot for her father's inventions, she feels best at speeds approaching 60 mph, when her feet are buckled into a pair of Rocket-Assisted, Zero-gravity, Open-Road in-line skates-RAZOR Blades for short. When her test run down Moonstone Mountain takes an unexpected turn at the bottom, Nermine is thrust into an adventure that only an unprincess is equipped to handle!

Three Heroines Braver, Bolder And More Resolute Than Your Usual Swooning Princesses Of Traditional Fairytales Meet Urmila, Who Is So Ugly That She Makes People Swoon, Kavita, Who Can Take On Giants More Competently Than Any Prince, And Sayoni, Who Has The Power To Tame Even The Wildest Nightmare. These Three Whimsical, Feisty Stories From Master Storyteller Manjula Padmanabhan, Illustrated In Her Characteristically Bold And Quirky Style, Will Delight Readers Of All Ages.

Global warming will either grab your interest or see you running in the opposite direction. But there is another way. It is a truth that is never realized, a truth that cannot surface once buried in the media and in politicians’ singlespeak, and a truth that is tantalizingly beyond your reach. How to Kill an Elephant exposes this truth for all to see, yet this is not a book about global warming; it is a book about human nature exposed for all its inadequacies. It starts with elephants, inexorably being driven to extinction by elephants of our own creation. Where does it finish? That’s for you to decide. Fancy a cane toad sandwich washed down with a cup of tea? Have you ever seen stalactites playing chess? You can expect a deadly serious read with a soupçon of levity and straightforward humour, because life really is too short not to indulge a little.

Celebrate girl power in this exuberant, mischievously illustrated picture book that shows little princesses that they can be whoever they want to be! Not all princesses dress in pink. Some play in bright red socks that stink, blue team jerseys that don’t quite fit, accessorized with a baseball mitt, and a sparkly crown! Princesses come in all kinds. Some jump in mud puddles and climb trees, play sports and make messes—all while wearing their tiaras! Not every girl has a passion for pink, but all young ladies will love this empowering affirmation of their importance and unlimited potential.

The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.