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A heart-warming story about a tiny firefly who loses its glow. He tries so hard to fit in but without his glow his friends don't want to play with him anymore. Luckily, firefly finds a tiny red ant who provides him with lots of wisdom to help him see it is what is on the inside that counts not our appearance. Blurb: When the little firefly loses his glow, he is cast out from his friends and left alone. Soon, firefly finds a new friend who teaches him the true meaning of friendship and that it's not our appearance that makes us so special it's our hearts.Explore the mindfulness game inside.

A much expanded new edition of the classic best-selling lighthouse book complemented with over 300 illustrations and many dramatic photographs, in full colour

"Intensely moving. [An] exceptional novel."--Boston Globe A poignant and magical story set in eighteenth-century England, The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson is the tale of two baby elephants and the young man who accidentally finds himself their guardian. Every reader who was enchanted by Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants or enthralled by When Elephants Weep will adore Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper--a masterful blending of historical novel, coming-of-age tale, animal adventure, and love story.

A lavishly illustrated history of railways in the area of the Peak District, which were born out of necessity to connect the major cities on either side of the Pennines.

I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth.In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a wealthy landowner, they are taken to his estate in the English countryside. A stable boy, Tom Page, is given the task of caring for them.The Elephant Keeper is Tom's account of his life with the elephants. As the years pass, and as they journey across England, his relationship with the female elephant deepens in a startling manner. Along the way they meet incredulity, distrust and tragedy, and it is only their understanding of each other that keeps them together.Christopher Nicholson's charming and captivating novel explores notions of sexuality and violence, freedom and captivity, and the nature of story-telling - but most of all it is the study of a profound and remarkable love between an elephant and a human being.