Encontrándose en un aprieto, Touch decide presentarse en casa del Gran Convertidor. "Señor! ¡Gran Convertidor de Paja! Mi nombre es Touch, y traje un bulto de paja. Le estaría muy agradecido si lo convierte en un caballo [...] Me propongo cabalgar hasta que esté fuera de su alcance, señor. Él no sabrá dónde buscarme."

One of Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman's most beloved books, this rip-snortin' saga of a young man and his butler bound for California during the great Gold Rush was just made to be read by a full cast. Our collection of coots, codgers, geezers, and outlaws will have you laughing out loud—when you're not holding your breath in suspense!

Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West—Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in their scheme to ambush Grandfather's new boat and its cargo of gold.

With the same gusto, humor, and dazzling description that light up his fiction, Sid Fleischman produced a quartet of books profiling figures whose talents set the world abuzz—including this one of Charlie Chaplin.There he was, that little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman. A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens. Everyone k...

Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West—Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in their scheme to ambush Grandfather's new boat and its cargo of gold.

Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father. Together they set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold. But they are not alone. Those nasty gold diggers Mrs. Daggatt and General Scurlock are hot on their trail.

"Et pust af midnat" er en magisk fortælling om en usædvanlig pagt mellem en død tryllekunstner og en forældreløs dreng.Det hele begynder, da den forældreløse Touch må rejse afsted til sin grandonkel, dommer Henry Wigglesforth, for at hente en arv. På vej i diligencen bliver det stormvejr, og pludselig får Touch øje på et spøgelse uden for vognen. Rygtet siger, at det er genfærdet af en berømt tryllekunstner. Fra da af forandres alt, og hverken turen i diligencen eller mødet med gra...

Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got poor fast, digging in the wrong places. Hi...

Jingo Hawks is out of luck when Mrs. Daggatt from the orphan house hires him out as a chimney sweep to the awful General Dirty-Face Scurlock. But it's gypsy luck that puts Jingo into the right chimney and then into the care of the mysterious Mr. Peacock, who claims to know Jingo's scoundrel father. Together they set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold. But they are not alone. Those nasty gold diggers Mrs. Daggatt and General Scurlock are hot on their trail.

How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse?Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom o...

"Et pust af midnat" er en magisk fortælling om en usædvanlig pagt mellem en død tryllekunstner og en forældreløs dreng.Det hele begynder, da den forældreløse Touch må rejse afsted til sin grandonkel, dommer Henry Wigglesforth, for at hente en arv. På vej i diligencen bliver det stormvejr, og pludselig får Touch øje på et spøgelse uden for vognen. Rygtet siger, at det er genfærdet af en berømt tryllekunstner. Fra da af forandres alt, og hverken turen i diligencen eller mødet med gra...