Faith Jaques Knihy

The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes has been shared and treasured by families for over two decades. Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, this children's classic is available in a beautiful new hardback gift edition.All the favourites are included in this collection of over 75 rhymes and songs, from Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty, to Sing a Song of Sixpence and many more. With ABCs, counting rhymes, lullabies and verse, this enduring and delightful classic is an essential for every child's bookshelf.

Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult and tells the story to her own children.

Karlík Bucket, chlapec z chudé rodiny, souhrou šťastných náhod získá los, který mu umožní spolu s dalšími dětskými výherci navštívit továrnu na čokoládu pana Willyho Wonky. Návštěva se pro všechny děti kromě Karlíka promění v hrůzný zážitek, protože Umpa-lumpové, kteří sladkosti vyrábějí, je postupně vytrestají za jejich špatné vlastnosti - jedno spadne do čokoládové řeky, další zfialoví a ještě jiné je svrženo do odpadní šachty. Nakonec zbývá už jen Karlík. Pan Wonka pro něj coby výherce přichystal nebývalé překvapení.