One girl. One turtle. One epic voyage! If you like Pippi Longstocking, you'll love Nelly Peabody.When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she does it, whatever it is.Learn to juggle china cups? Of course!Live on lemons for a month? Why not?Set out in a boat with knitted sails to find her long-lost father, with only her turtle Columbus for company? Absolutely!And she won't let anything get in her way . . .
Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. As the Red Army engaged with an Allied invasion of Russia, Ransome was conducting a love affair with Evgenia Shelepina, private secretary to Leon Trotsky, then Soviet Commissar for War.
When Nelly returns home to find that her mother is missing, she has only one option: to fly out in a knitted hot air balloon with her best friend, a turtle called Columbus, and rescue her! She may be looking for her mother, but what she finds along the way is not what she was expecting . . .
An adventure series bringing the past to life. Waking up on a battlefield in Ancient China, it takes all Billy's skills and a spirit horse to get his new friend Han to safety and Billy back to his friend Charles Darwin, a 200-year- old talking tortoise. For 7+