Island of the Giant Pokemon - Pokemon #2 (Tracey West)

Island of the Giant Pokemon - Pokemon #2

Tracey West

Blurb: Shipwrecked!

Ash and Pikachu are invited to a Pokemon party on a cruise ship. Cool, right? Not! They've been tricked by the evil Team Rocket, who plan to steal all the Pokemon on board.

Things get worse when the ship sinks, and the survivors end up lost in a strange land - filed with monster-sized Pokemon!

Will the castaways find their way home? Or will they be stranded forever on the Island of the Giant Pokemon?

ISBN: 0439104661 (Paperback)

Year: 1999

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 85 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Goodreads page

3. Buy from Indigo

4. Author's official site

5. Reviews of the book

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football (Craig McGill & Susan Elliott)

Footy Dogs: The Dogs of Australian Rules Football

Craig McGill & Susan Elliott

Blurb: Behind every great Aussie Rules player, you're likely to find that a good dog helped him succeed. Footy Dogs features over 100 players from all sixteen AFL teams and over 210 stunning photos of their loyal woofers. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Ron Barassi, Trisha Broadbridge, Sam Kekovich, Michael Millett, Lynda Carroll, Diego Maradogga and many more.

Find out which player's dog wears pink nail polish, who peed on the photographer and discover the identity of the player who guzzled the church's altar wine.

Footy Dogs is a photographic journal of stunning photos and great yarns - created all for the love of dogs and footy.

ISBN: 0958085633 (Hardback)

Year: 2005

Publisher: A Giant Dog Book

Pages: 280 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Official website of the book

2. Buy from QBD

3. How to find AFL players and coaches

4. Wikipedia page for Aussie Rules

5. Review of the book

James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake)

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Blurb: Something is about to happen. James told himself. Something peculiar is about to happen at any moment.

James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people. They make poor James's life a misery. 

Then something very peculiar happens - something magical that is to completely change James's wretched existence and take him on the most amazing and unbelievable journey!

ISBN: 0140382348 (Paperback)

Year: 1961

Publisher: Puffin Books

Pages: 156 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from the Book Depository

2. Teacher's notes for the book

3. Random House page for the book

4. Page celebrating 50 years of the book

5. Wikipedia page for the book

Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury: The Second Robot Adventure (Dav Pilkey & Martin Ontiveros)

Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury: The Second Robot Adventure

Dav Pilkey & Martin Ontiveros

Blurb: Ricky Ricotta may be a small mouse, but he has a VERY big friend - a giant flying Robot! And when an evil, outerspace villain named Mr. Mosquito invades Earth with an army of Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury, Ricky and his Robot know exactly what to do! Young readers will cheer as Ricky's Robot battles the bad guys. And when Ricky finds a very smart way to play a trick on Mr. Mosquito, it's plain to see that even a little mouse can be a BIG hero!

ISBN: 0590307223 (Paperback)

Year: 2000

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 123 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Wikipedia page for the book

4. Goodreads page

5. Google books page