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+
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 . . .
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.