Urban Fiction Animal

Elizabeth is happy to be back in Black Bridge, a quaint English town where the mornings are cold, and the tea is hot. It seems she’s not the only one that finds it the idyllic place to be as the surrounding fields are suddenly overrun with travelers—something that several locals are unhappy about. Now that Elizabeth is working full time for The Herald, the town’s newspaper, it’s her job to cover the story, and she soon realizes that there is more going on than meets the eye.

Poachy the squirrel lives near the top of the tallest tree in Amelia Riley Gardens, a lush green space in the middle of a big city, surrounded by huge, white Georgian houses, which make up Victoria Square. The park is big for an inner city square at about the size of two standard football fields laid end to end. A grand duck pond built on two levels dominates its center. It has its own footbridge separating the small shallow part where frogs, tadpoles, and newts live, from the deeper, much larger part, for bigger fish.

"Se gli uomini fossero meno avidi, ci sarebbe latte sia per i nostri cuccioli che per loro e, se ci nutrissero con ciò che ci fa bene, il nostro latte sarebbe più sano e noi vivremmo più a lungo. Se non ci trattassero in modo crudele". Un racconto sulla Natura per bambini dai 9 ai 90 anni... Corre l'anno 2127, il mondo si è ingrigito e l’uomo comanda su ogni altra forma vivente. La mucca Bella rinchiusa in un allevamento, insieme alle sue compagne, è maltrattata da uno stalliere. Pino, il topolino, le incita a ribellarsi e organizza la loro fuga.

Eben erst hat Mathieu seine treue Begleiterin Sam vor dem Laden angebunden, und jetzt: keine Spur mehr von ihr. Ohne ihren weisen Blick, ihre Wärme fühlt Mathieu sich einsam und schutzlos, er muss sie wiederfinden. Und so streift er auf der Suche nach seinem Hund durch die winterliche Großstadt, folgt seinen Erinnerungen, den Schicksalsschlägen, die ihn hierher geführt haben: zu einem Leben auf der Straße. Er erinnert sich an seine Mutter, an deren manipulativer Liebe er beinah erstickte. An seinen Vater, der dem nichts entgegenzusetzen vermochte.

La morte improvvisa della madre porta il giovane ventenne Ross ad allontanarsi dai suoi amici e a chiudersi in sé stesso. Daiane, sua sorella, vive lontano. Unico amico fedele è il suo discolo cagnolino Billy che, con la sua vivacità, riesce a distogliere Ross dai tristi pensieri. Proprio Billy porterà Ross a fare una scoperta inquietante: Il giovane Harold!

My story gives the background of how Albert the Gorilla made his way to the North Pole and his idea of how to help Santa make sure kids with split families have an extra-special Christmas. This story gives children with split families something that is uniquely theirs.