Bøger af Alex Macdonald

Nelly is a very different bird. She cannot fly. So, instead – Nelly learns to do things differently.

SQUIBS: FOUR DIRECTIONS is a volume of seventeen-syllable poems for which no superlatives would suffice, unfortunately. Here you will find squibs and cartoons which may cause you to smile, to chuckle, to LOL, perhaps to cry or at least to cry "Enough!" SQUIBS is an example of the current literature-as-therapy movement. If you're feeling blue you can go take a haiku. Haaaiiiiii--ku!!!!!! seventeen syllable verse squibs good, bad and worse all (thankfully) terse

This collection of short stories welcomes you to the world of Rose MacLeod. A world filled with lake captains and lawyers, cops and bootleggers, ministers and killers, legendary hockey heroes and always the birds. She lived for a century on the western shores of Lake Superior and she was much loved by God. She carried that love everywhere she went, spreading kindness and ecouragement, creating joys in the days of everyone she met, always treating loved ones and strangers alike. She lived through wars and Depression and although her life had not always been easy she was at one with her world and with her God. Above the door to her home she'd painted the words All Are Welcome Here and those are the words she lived by.

From an exciting new author-illustrator, Have You Seen Mikki Olsen? is a heartwarming and funny picture book about a penguin who loses its favourite teddy - which will have little readers shouting out 'IT'S BEHIND YOU!'

Your Body, Actuallyfor HCThere is only so much content at handand life has become very straightforward.One option unfolds another: touch me and die.Reassuring as a sinkhole, totally.Seasons come on as a sausage restaurant,hopeful, with all its blinding trinketsand inherited imagery. No other replies needed.We are living in a post-sacred age, so it''s official,nothing is sacred. It''s official: leather pyjamas.Go away, thoroughly, where winds have worndeserts to a whistle, rocks shaped to a gesture.How many rugs were pulled from under us?And will we know a burning platform amongall this interference, this life of soft graft.

This book will engage your imagination as Alex retells these eye-witness stories of Jesus.These people tell their stories as eye witnesses of those who were actuly there. They are: Mary, mother of Jesus, Gaius Maximus, centurion, Joanna?'s story of John The Baptist, woman at the well, Simon the Pharisee, Gadarene Demoniac, Jairus, Simon Peter, Rich ruler, Bartimaeus & Zacchaeus, John and Marcellus a Roman officer.Using Biblical, contemporary and background data, Alex MacDonald skilfully tells the stories of those who were with Jesus at key points in his life.It unfolds as if you were on the spot looking on. The stories are based on factual evidence of what really happened.What would your reaction have been if you were there?