Have I ever told you about the time I met the giant who couldn't stop crying?' 'No, you never told us about that, ' I said. 'So I'll tell you now, ' said Uncle Leo, and he began. Uncle Leo is no ordinary uncle, he's one-of-a-kind-he's an adventurer, a traveller, a magician, all rolled into one. In this second instalment of his wonderful adventures, Uncle Leo tells Andy all about his time in the Siberian jungles-from digging a tunnel to the other side of the world for the queen of Decria to meeting the giant who couldn't stop crying; from battling his own reflection in a magic mirror to travelling to Lafterovnik, where people cry when they're happy! Funny and endearing, the second book in the Uncle Leo series brings to life the magic of storytelling, accompanied by lively and colourful illustration

Lost and alone in the jungle, one boy will have to let go of his assumptions and anger, or be dragged down with them. Dylan Barstow has finally crossed the line. After getting caught on a late-night joyride in a stolen car, Dylan is shipped off to live with his ex-Marine uncle for the summer. But Uncle Todd has bigger plans for Dylan than push-ups and early-morning jogs. Deep in the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea, there's a WWII fighter plane named SECOND ACE that's been lost for years, a plane that Dylan's own grandfather barely escaped from with his life. In all this time, no one has ever been able to track down SECOND ACE -- but now Dylan and his uncle are going to try.Lush and haunted, vital and deadly, these alien jungles half a world away could mean Dylan's salvation, or they could swallow him whole.

Very enjoyable rhyming tale for preschoolers and early readers or as a bedtime story read aloud. One day the quiet of the jungle is disturbed when a lizard arrives in a taxicab for a visit. When she demands respect from the large animals like the lion, hippos, elephants, and cheetahs, they just laugh. Lizard warns them to take her seriously, cautioning them that when her Uncle Lizard comes, there will be war. Sure enough, the day arrives when Uncle Lizard does come to visit. Get ready for a surprise ending.Afternoon in the jungle - the air was hot, Lions in the shade with elephant and tot. All the hippos went into the water to play, For jungle animals - just an ordinary day.

Afternoon in the jungle – the air was hot, Lions in the shade with elephant and tot. All the hippos went into the water to play, For jungle animals - just an ordinary day.

Few American writers have revealed their private as well as their public selves so fully as Upton Sinclair, and virtually none over such a long lifetime (1878—1968). Sinclair’s writing, even at its most poignant or electrifying, blurred the line between politics and art–and, indeed, his life followed a similar arc. In Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, Anthony Arthur weaves the strands of Sinclair’s contentious public career and his often-troubled private life into a compelling personal narrative. An unassuming teetotaler with a fiery streak, called a propagandist by some, the most conservative of revolutionaries by others, Sinclair was such a driving force of history that one could easily mistake his life story for historical fiction. He counted dozens of epochal figures as friends or confidants, including Mark Twain, Jack London, Henry Ford, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Albert Camus, and Carl Jung. Starting with The Jungle in 1906, Sinclair’s fiction and nonfiction helped to inform and mold American opinions about socialism, labor and industry, religion and philosophy, the excesses of the media, American political isolation and pacifism, civil liberties, and mental and physical health. In his later years, Sinclair twice reinvented himself, first as the Democratic candidate for governor of California in 1934, and later, in his sixties and seventies, as a historical novelist. In 1943 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Dragon’s Teeth, one of eleven novels featuring super-spy Lanny Budd. Outside the literary realm, the ever-restless Sinclair was seemingly everywhere: forming Utopian artists’ colonies, funding and producing Sergei Eisenstein’s film documentaries, and waging consciousness-raising political campaigns. Even when he wasn’t involved in progressive causes or counterculture movements, his name often was invoked by them–an arrangement that frequently embroiled Sinclair in controversy. Sinclair’ s passion and optimistic zeal inspired America, but privately he could be a frustrated, petty man who connected better with his readers than with members of his own family. His life with his first wife, Meta, his son David, and various friends and professional acquaintances was a web of conflict and strain. Personally and professionally ambitious, Sinclair engaged in financial speculation, although his wealth-generating schemes often benefited his pet causes–and he lobbied as tirelessly for professional recognition and awards as he did for government reform. As the tenor of his work would suggest, Sinclair was supremely human. In Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, Anthony Arthur offers an engrossing and enlightening account of Sinclair’s life and the country he helped to transform. Taking readers from the Reconstruction South to the rise of American power to the pinnacle of Hollywood culture to the Civil Rights era, this is historical biography at its entertaining and thought-provoking finest.