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The writer and illustrator of this picture book have managed to transform a video game, into a fairy tale. A book that manages to teach us about the power of friendship on one hand, and the correct use of power on the other. A story about fair play.

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All pirates have a wooden leg, an eye patch and a hook! But one morning, little Mark is born with a question mark instead of a hook. As he grows up, he asks himself a ton of questions: Why am I different? Why do I have a question mark instead of a hook?

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A secret message put Axel and his uncle, Otto Lidenbrock, professor of mineralogy, into great adventures, leading them to descend all the way to the centre of the earth! “I carefully took the book in my hands, when suddenly through its pages slipped a small piece of paper folded in four. It was a secret message, the beginning of a great adventure for me and my uncle Otto Lidenbrock- the famous professor of mineralogy.”

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Treasure island is an adventure story full of pirates, maps, treasures and a courageous hero.

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Follow the punctual Mr. Phileas Fogg who accepts a wager to travel around the world in 80 days and experience his famous adventures. Award winning author Antonis Papatheodoulou and illustrator Iris Samartzi re-imagine the original Jules Verne’s stories through texts full of playful riddles and delightful, vivid illustrations.

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In a very small town, on the banks of the Mississippi, with his aunt Polly, his cousin Mary, and his half-brother Sid, lives the naughtiest, wildest, unruliest… good boy in America: Tom Sawyer.

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What was that mysterious object terrifying sailors back in 1866? Was it a sea monster or a man-made machine? Award winning author Antonis Papatheodoulou and illustrator Iris Samartzi re-imagine the original Jules Verne’s stories through texts full of playful riddles and delightful, vivid illustrations.

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Impey Barbicane thought of making the greatest cannon of them all. A powerful cannon not for war, but for peace, made to shoot not the enemy, but the surface of the moon. "Peace, peace at last! But now no one needs cannon-makers anymore... and I love my job and know how to do it well. If only there were cannons for peace, I could make them better than anyone..." Those were Impey Barbicane’s thoughts, as he was staring at the moon… which gave him a brilliant idea: he would make the greatest cannon in the world, a cannon that would expand the human knowledge! Made not to fight the enemy but to launch a shell to the surface of the Moon! Indeed, that would be the cannon of peace!

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Black Beauty, the autobiography of a horse, is one of the most sensitive animal stories ever written.

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Alice was feeling rather bored that afternoon. “Shall I make a daisy-chain? she wondered. Or read the book my sister is reading?” Louis Carroll’s classic story is here retold by awarded author Antonis Papatheodoulou and originally illustrated by 2020 nominee for the H.C. Andersen Award of the Greek section of IBBY,Iris Samartzi.

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Age 6+. This is a story about four real-life girls, with real-life joys and problems. A story about Little Women who became four of the most beloved heroes in the whole history of Literature.

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