Showing results for "The Unexpected" in Biographies

Best known for his best-selling novel, Babe, which was made into a major motion picture, Dick King-Smith draws on his over 14 years of experience on Woodlands Farm to create this thoughtful and humorous memoir. His time on the farm inspired countless stories as well as the numerous lovable characters found in them. In Chewing the Cud, he candidly talks about what moved him to become a children’s author.

From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes the first book in the Turnabout Tales series—a picture book biography of one of America’s most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about never giving up. No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison...

How does a kid grow up to become a scientist? This enthralling nonfiction book from New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner explores the unexpected beginnings behind some of the most fascinating discoveries in scientific history. This book of unexpected beginnings powerfully shows that the great scientists of the future could be practically anyone . . . including you.

Medallista mundial y exitoso participante en tres Juegos Olímpicos, Daniel Corral es mucho más que las marcas deportivas que ha cosechado. Convencido de que al único a quien tiene que complacer es a sí mismo, el gimnasta bajacaliforniano prefiere enfocarse en sus sueños y en aquello que lo hará feliz, y no en lo que las personas que lo rodean esperan de él.