Bøger af Eoin Colfer

The story of a girl growing up with dwarfism, told by Ireland's leading children's author.

From Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, comes a truly compelling, empathy-building book based on real life events in illustrator Chris Judge's own life.Erin's favourite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mum and dad. She calls them her "cloud babies". One day, Erin falls very ill. She has to spend a long time in hospital but she still manages to find comfort and joy in spying cloud babies through the windows with her new hospital friends. When Dr Bernadette tells Erin that even though there would still be some "hospital days", she can now go home, she is so excited. But being back at school is not at all what she expected. Erin must reconcile the comforting, safe world she has built for herself inside the hospital with the world outside that has now become unfamiliar to her. But with her Mum and Dad's love and guidance, and with the support of her school teacher and friends, Erin realizes that by sharing her world, and her cloud babies, she will find happiness in being herself once more. Sensitively told and vibrantly brought to life on the page, this is a truly powerful source of guidance, acknowledgement and, ultimately, comfort.

Ebo ist allein. Kwame, sein älterer Bruder ist verschwunden - vermutlich um dieselbe gefährliche Reise nach Europa anzutreten, zu der schon seine Schwester vor Monaten aufgebrochen ist. Aber Ebo möchte nicht alleine zurückbleiben. Und so, getrieben von der Sehnsucht nach einem Wiedersehen mit seinen Geschwistern und der Hoffnung auf ein sichereres und besseres Leben, begibt sich der 12-Jährige auf eine epische Reise, die ihn von seinem kleinen Dorf in Ghana, durch die Sahara bis zu den bedrohlichen Straßen in Tripolis führt, von wo aus es hinaus auf das unerbittliche Mittelmeer geht ... Beeindruckend gezeichnete und erzählte Graphic Novel - auch für reluctant reader!

Six-year-old Erin's favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mom and dad--everything from fluffy foxes and polar bears to little rabbits. Even when Erin falls very ill and has to spend a long time in the hospital, she still manages to find joy in spying "cloud When the doctor tells Erin she can go home, she is so excited!

"One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins--scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature--are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. Unfortunately for the troll, he is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. The boys and their new troll best friend escape and go on the run. Along the way they get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily), and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins"--

Did you know that if the conditions are just right, and if you add a little electricity, or magic, or luck, that an imaginary friend might appear just when you need one? An imaginary friend like . . . Fred.Fred is the best imaginary friend you could ever hope for, but no matter how hard he tries, the same thing always happens: his friend finds a real friend in the real world, and Fred fades away, bit by bit, waiting to be wished for again . . .Then one day, a boy called Sam wishes for a friend, and Fred appears! For a while, everything is perfect.But what about the day when Sam finds a real friend?Could it be that this time, something magical might happen . . . ?Imaginary Fred is a quirky, funny, utterly irresistible story from a bestselling dream team.

12-årige Fletcher Moon – Halvmåne blandt både venner og fjender – er den fødte detektiv. Han er kendt for at have løst mange svære mysterier, og derfor er April ikke i tvivl om, at det er ham, der kan hjælpe hende. Hun beder ham finde en hårlok, som hun mener er blevet stjålet. Hvorfor ved hun ikke og slet ikke af hvem. Da Halvmåne begynder at grave i sagen, forstår han, at der er nogen, der vil gøre alt for, at han ikke finder frem til den skyldige. Nu er det pludselig farligt for Halvmåne selv, men det gør ham bare endnu mere opsat på at løse mysteriet!Eoin Colfer er født i 1965 i Irland. Han er uddannet fra Dublin Universitet, men har rejst og arbejdet over det meste af verden, heriblandt Tunesien, Saudi Arabien og Italien. Indtil Colfer udgav Artemis Fowl-serien, arbejdede han som lærer; men lærergerningen blev tilsidesat, da det blev muligt for ham at skrive på fuld tid.

From Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, comes a truly compelling, empathy-building book based on real life events in illustrator Chris Judge's own life.Erin¿s favourite game is spotting animals in the clouds with her mum and dad - everything from foxes and polar bears to little rabbits! She calls them her 'cloud babies'. One day, Erin falls very ill. She has to spend a long time in hospital but she still manages to find comfort and joy in spying cloud babies through the windows with her new hospital friends.When Dr Bernadette tells Erin that even though there would still be some "hospital days", she can now go home, she is so excited. But being back at school is not at all what she expected. So much has changed. Erin must reconcile the comforting, safe world she has built for herself inside the hospital with the world outside that has now become unfamiliar to her. But with her Mum and Dad¿s love and guidance, and with the support of her school teacher and friends, Erin realizes that by sharing her world, and her cloud babies, she will find happiness in being herself once more. Sensitively told and vibrantly brought to life on the page, this is a truly powerful source of guidance, acknowledgement and, ultimately, comfort.

Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.

When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a n foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis'sew own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.

Large Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in young readers of all abilities, especially struggling, reluctant, and striving readers.

"Gnommish alphabet created by Alicia Grace Martin."

?True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author's neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.? ?GuardianFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana?and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff.In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs?now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie?now he goes by Vern. However...he has survived, unlike the rest. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. Vern's glory days are long gone. Or are they?A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett ?Squib? Moreau does what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mother. He's finally decided to work for a shady smuggler?but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by a crooked constable. Regence Hooke is not just a dirty cop, he's a despicable human being?who happens to want Squib's momma in the worst way. When Hooke goes after his hidden witness with a grenade launcher, Squib finds himself airlifted from certain death by...a dragon?The swamp can make strange bedfellows, and rather than be fried alive so the dragon can keep his secret, Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as his go-between (aka familiar)?fetch his vodka, keep him company, etc.?in exchange for protection from Hooke. Soon the three of them are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation. There's about to be a fiery reckoning, in which either dragons finally go extinct?or Vern's glory days are back.A triumphant return to the genre-bending fantasy that Eoin Colfer is so well known for, Highfire is an effortlessly clever and relentlessly funny tour-de-force of comedy and action.

"Soon to be a major motion picture from the Walt Disney Studios"--Book jacket.

After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle.

Eoin Colfer's heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship and the bond between a girl and her grandfather - now in a standard paperback format for middle-grade readers.

In anticipation for the upcoming live-action film from Walt Disney Studios releasing in August, Books 3-8 of Colfer's "New York Times"-bestselling series about a 12-year-old evil genius are reissued in these paperback editions.

Includes an excerpts from: Artemis Fowl: the Atlantis complex; and, The Fowl twins.

Includes an excerpt from The Fowl twins.

"Twins Myles and Beckett face off against Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, who has been plotting revenge against them since they humiliated him"--

PRONTO EN CINES¿Quién es Artemis Fowl? De momento, sabed que no es un niño cualquiera y que, aunque solo tiene doce años, está a punto de arrebatar el poder al mundo subterráneo.«Quieto, humano. No sabes con quién te las vas a tener.»Artemis Fowl tiene doce años, una mente privilegiada y un plan perfecto: robar el oro de las criaturas mágicas para financiar su pequeño imperio criminal. Lo que todavía no sabe es que los duendes, elfos y hadas del mundo subterráneo poco se parecen a los de los cuentos infantiles...Equipados con la tecnología más puntera y armados hasta los dientes, están más que preparados para la lucha. Pero Artemis también. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOSThe adventures of Artemis Fowl, criminal mastermind, begin.Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous--and extremely high-tech--fairies. He kidnaps one of them, Holly Short, and holds her for ransom in an effort to restore his family's fortune. But he may have underestimated the fairies' powers. Is he about to trigger a cross-species war?

Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate. Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up - again. This is the sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese.