Bøger af Jimmy Smyth

A long, long time ago Finn McCool, an Irish giant built the Giants Causeway in County Antrim. Well that was ages ago and to see Finn McCool's work, thousands and thousands of visitors come to the Giants Causeway every year. As time has passed this amazing place has continued to capture the imagination of everyone who visits. Recently a new Visitor Center was built and the Giants Causeway is now one of the most popular Tourist Attractions in the United Kingdom and Ireland.On a recent visit to the Giants Causeway a little girl called Jill and her younger brother Joe couldn't believe their eyes when out of the mist appeared none other than Finn McCool himself. And boy were they surprised? Anyway, Finn had a very special job that could only be done by small children and before you could be able to say Causeway Stones, Jill, Joe and Finn were on their way across the Causeway to Scotland.

Most of us have a magic place where we can go to escape the everyday problems and pressures of life. Children usually have several magic places and each of these magic places helps them to deal with childhood problems and to develop into healthy adults. For Patrick, Molly and Thomas, their special magic place is their garden. The Magic Garden infuses fun and excitement into their lives and gives them something special in place of television and computor games. Come and join them, as they play in The Magic Garden and hopefully, very soon, you will find your own magical and wonderful place.

Join Lucas, Jake and Amber on a wonderful adventure at the Giant's Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. What started as a day trip turned into a magical experience with Lucas, Jake and Amber being given the slip, time and time again by a slippery little fellow. The one thing you can be sure of when visiting places in Ireland, like the Causeway Coast, is that you never know what awaits you.

Imagine a Fairy Princess falling in love with a Leprechaun? Unbelievable! The whole fairy village was in shock and as for the leprechaun community; well they didn't know if they should laugh or cry. But not to worry, as long as love wins through. Still I suppose it did cause a lot of fairies and leprechauns a great deal of excitement and confusion, not to mention something to gossip about. Anyway, read the story and let me know what you think.

Lucas, Jake and Amber go to visit the new Titanic Building in Belfast and shortly after they arrive, they are travelling back in time to the day the Titanic was launched. Who are they going to meet? What will happen? Join Lucas, Jake and Amber in another exciting adventure.

Lucas and his two Jack Russell terriers, Jake and Amber always seem to have the ability to become part of an exciting adventure. Their adventures are wide and varied, from meeting up with leprechauns and fairies, to going back in time to the launch of the Titanic and to a monastery in the 12th century. In The Lost Fairy, Lucas, Jake and Amber find a little fairy, called Breena, who is lost and unable to find her way home.

The Journey At the age of seventeen, Mary Harper has already led a full and hectic life; surviving poverty, hardship, and an alcoholic father, to become a beautiful, charismatic and charming young woman. Mary has a job she loves, her first boyfriend, wonderful caring friends and money to spend - at least everything is seemingly perfect. That is, until one fateful night when Mary's world comes crashing down around her. Having been brutally raped, she slowly becomes stripped of everything that made her life great - her happiness, freedom, family, friends and finally, her sanity. After her rapist poisons her father's mind with vicious lies; a now-pregnant Mary gets a diagnosis that will change her life forever and once she's locked up in the lunatic asylum, it seems like she has lost all hope of every living a normal, happy life. What will happen to her child? How will she cope with the violence, abuse and brutal so-called treatments at the lunatic asylum? Will Mary ever be free from the 'Big House'? Will she ever find the love and happiness she deserves and so desperately craves? Set in the rural region of Kilbarra in the 1930s: The Journey will take you back to a time where life was harder, tougher and much more challenging. Closely following Mary's sad story; the lives of her mother, sister, two brothers and the illegal antics of her alcoholic father; this book will draw you into the lives of these characters and the intriguing ways of this small rural community.