Tap Tap Bang Bang

'Tap Tap Bang Bang' is full of bright and colourful tools. What can they all be making? Find out as we 'cree craw' cut with the saw and 'tappety tap' in the nails.

When a thunderstorm hits a city street, children and grown-ups dash to the subway for shelter — and an impromptu friendly gathering. Features an audio read-along! The clouds are gathering above a city street and soon — tap, tap, boom, boom! As a thunderstorm rolls in, people of all stripes race down to the subway to get away from the crackling rain and wind. With quirky wordplay and infectious rhymes, Elizabeth Bluemle crystallizes an unexpected moment of community, while G. Brian Karas’s warm illustrations show the smiles to be had when a storm brings strangers together as friends.

In this follow-up to "Tip Tip Dig Dig," Garcia invites little ones on an entertaining trip where colorful cars beep-beep, toot-toot, and vroom-vroom across colorful collage-like pages. Full color.

Shows different construction equipment and what they can do.

Dee and Trevor (13 year old Investigative Reporters) go treasure hunting and when their find of Celtic coins disappear overnight, they suspect the farmer whose land they are on, so decide to investigate. They include Our Bunch, Dee's group of close school friends, in this. The police become involved, setting up a 'Sting' operation, but fail to trap the farmer. Dee and Trevor are asked by Nellie Grainger (6 yrs.) the daughter of a neighbouring farmer to check what she calls a 'Goblins Grotto'. The ground collapses under them plunging them into a cave system. Being in danger of drowning from the cave beginning to flood, they manage to escape into an underground Cold War headquarters bunker. Asked to be nearby when the police raid the farmer's property they see him escaping and follow. His getaway car crashes and catches fire. They are first on hand and have to rescue the farmer and his son. With the co-operation of a neighbouring farmer a Visitor Centre is established for the Celtic Settlement.

Welcome to Fairy Tales from Tang Tang Tang Tang weaves traditional Chinese storytelling with Western fantasy elements, using vivid language to craft unique stories of wonder and magic. These beautiful, poignant fairy tales will leave an imprint on your heart with their universal themes of friendship, family, loyalty and loss. What happens when … a young boy is sent to rob a silly ghost? a young girl faces the Blue Hag feared by everyone in the village? a magical radish seed sets out to do great things? a primary school teacher reluctantly takes a class about fairy tales? This book is for children and for adults who never lost their sense of wonder. Translated from the original Chinese

Words about sound and noise illustrate the letters of the alphabet.

Alaska in the year 2314: Seventeen-year-old Nahanni Redfern and her people—descendants of First Nation tribes—have been living in a vast system of secret underground caves, hiding from the totalitarian government on the surface that would enslave them. Then one night, an explosion shakes their world, and Jack Correll, an enigmatic young physicist from the surface, discovers them. To everyone in underground Tanháia, discovery means only one thing: their years of secrecy have ended, and they are now facing capture or death. Can their secrecy be maintained? Will Correll betray them, and what are his real reasons for coming? Nahanni is about to learn that appearances are deceptive, motives complex, and where people are concerned, no one knows what goes on below the surface.