Adventure Bookshelf

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon…
Good old Harold, living proof that quick thinking and imagination will take a person far in this world. Equipped only with his trusty purple crayon he journeys through a landscape of creativity - into forests, across oceans, through the sky in a balloon. A seashore picnic [...]

…”I’ve always thought,” said Rainsford, “that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game.”
For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, “No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game.” He sipped his wine. [...]

“September 30, 1659. I , poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked, during a dreadful storm, in the offing, came on shore on this dismal unfortunate island, which I called the Island of Despair, all the rest of the ship’s company being drowned, and myself almost dead.”
Just eleven years [...]

“But it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”

Milo is a bored little boy with nothing much to do or reason to do it. Till one day arriving home from school he unexpectedly finds a miniature tollbooth [...]