Those Amazing Dogs Book 5: On the Coral Island

Those Amazing Dogs are globe-trotting adventurers who live with world famous archaeologist Felix Strong and his wife, Erica. As Felix and Erica pursue new evidence of ancient civilizations, they find themselves in unexpected adventures in some of the wildest places on Earth. The dogs, Max, Molly and Oddie are always ready to save the day when things become dangerous.

Max, the oldest, is a Lhasa Apso; he is a seasoned adventurer in a small package. Tinier still is Molly, a Yorkshire Terrier. Her youthful enthusiasm sometimes makes Max impatient, but her attitude and energy is often what keeps the team together. The largest of the group is the Pit Bull, Oddie. Though his sweet and simple nature often hides his strength, Oddie is always ready to use brute force to protect his friends or help those in need.

Designed for young independent readers (7 to 12 years old), these chapter books form an engrossing story for all ages that enjoy a good adventure. They also provide material for discussion and bits of real history mixed in with the fantastic journey of the dogs and their humans. These books also respect a child's inquisitive nature and encourage their readers to learn new words and concepts.

In the fourth book, "At the Pirate Bay," the dogs learn about a possible meeting of cultures over 1000 years ago. When they become separated from their humans — and each other — they must team up with a renegade Chihuahua in order to escape from a booby-trapped Mexican pyramid. There are connections that they find between all their adventures, showing them that the world has always been a much more connected place than they realized.

From the Canadian Arctic to the tropical heat of southern Mexico, the Strongs and their faithful dogs face one challenge after another. With high adventure and a little bit of peril, Those Amazing Dogs take their young readers along on the trail of discovery.

Max, Molly and Oddie again come to the rescue in the third adventure of the "Those Amazing Dogs" series. While following the trail on their newly discovered Viking map, Felix and Erica Strong become trapped with their teenage guide during an arctic blizzard and it is up to their dogs to save them. Braving the ice and snow, the dogs are befriended by an Arctic Wolf and a team of sled dogs.

Traveling to an archaeological dig in Africa, three amazing dogs are separated from their owner. The dogs must team up with jungle animals for their survival and to find their way back to their owner. On their journey, they discover that they hold the key to saving the local rain forest from destruction.

Max, Molly and Oddie are three amazing dogs who travel with their famous archaeologist owners Felix and Erica Strong on adventures all over the world. Following a lead to Greenland in search of Viking treasure, Felix and Erica become trapped inside an erupting volcano. It is up to their resourceful dogs to find a way in to rescue them before the volcano explodes.

With the help of some local animals, including a polar bear and an arctic fox named Blue, the dogs plan a daring rescue that only they could pull off. Using their natural instincts and skills, Max, Molly and Oddie sniff out their humans and bring them to safety.

The story unfolds with a little bit of Viking history, a little bit of geography and science, and a whole lot of adventure that will please reading kids of all ages.

Ten simple, amusing stories for children just beginning to read independently. Each story lists the target sounds and common words used, so that adults can help the beginning reader along when necessary. As with any reading instruction course, the pool of appropriate words is necessarily limited so as not to confuse the beginning reader.

What a lovely lot of creatures there are - down in Wingy Wood.

This is about two of them; young pond frogs they are, called Peter and Herb.

They go on their first big adventure; which means leaving Wingy Wood far behind, to seek out the Great Eel.

To comlete their journey they have to cross the Vast Plain, where the Roaring Monsters travel.

When they eventually meet the Great Eel, he's going to trick them into becoming Eel food. . .

Will their first adventure be their last one?

The full story is here...

Based on a memory from when I was 5 and had just started school. Although a few minor details have been changed: the story follows what I did. I remeber crawling on the grass verges as the concrete footpaths hurt my knees. I even remember chasing a cat at one stage! Not bad for 35 year-old memory!

When her older sister doesn't get the kind of pony she asked for on Christmas morning, Jenn and her father assemble the rejected gift that soon becomes one of Jenn's best friends: a robotic pony named Po.

But when their friendship is threatened by a factory recall of the robot ponies, Po has to decide how he wants his friend to remember him: by shrugging off the loss of a defective toy, or by grieving the death of a true friend...

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.

While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty became a forerunner to the pony book genre of children's literature. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.