Ken Brown Boeken

Various animals contend for the honor of being considered the king of the woods, but it is not always the largest who is the strongest.

Ostrich wonders why he can't fly. Is his neck too long or his wings too small? Or maybe he just needs to try harder.

“Quite simply, a wonderfully moving story about the power of love." —Times Educational Supplement “A wry first-person narrative. . . . Discussion of handicaps, death and bereavement, and religious belief are carefully integrated into the story.”—School Library Journal Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled. Anna loves him immensely but she finds herself unable to admit the truth about Ben to her friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna expected, but sympathy and understanding. Elizabeth Laird’s award-winning young adult novels include A Little Piece of Ground and Crusade.

Le jour vient de se lever sur la savane africaine. Un lionceau attend, seul, le retour de sa mère partie chasser. Le soleil monte dans le ciel, les chacals rôdent alentour ... Qui protégera le lionceau de ses ennemis affamés?

Grossmutter Wolf hat den Ruf schlau, böse und gemein zu sein. Die Tiere des Waldes wollen sie auf die Probe stellen ...

Der Vogel Strauss fragt sich, warum ausgerechnet er nicht fliegen kann. Alle seine Freunde wollen ihm helfen. (ab 4).