A Horn for Louis

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Michael Cox

You've probably heard of Leonardo da Vinci ... He is dead famous for: painting the most famous picture in the world; designing the first-ever flying machine; and being THE all-round fabulous Renaissance Man. But have you heard that Leonardo: spent ten years making a seven-metre tall horse; thought pink was the coolest colour for clothes; and loved to play practical jokes? Now you can get the inside story with Leonardo's lost notebook, flick through the pages of the Milan Messenger and discover dozens of the dazzling invetions the great man dreamed up in his amazing super-brain.

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Fern Neal Stocker

Recounts the life of the uneducated, visually handicapped British woman who served as a missionary in China for many years, setting up orphanages to help homeless children. At intervals in the text the reader finds a question followed by several possible answers, one or more of which may be correct.

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Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen

Jackson, a great horned owl, chooses to stay with the family that raised him after a boy stole him from his nest when he was just an owlet

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Rita Stevens

A biography focusing on the military and political career of the only grandson of a president to become president himself.