Bøger af Adele Smith

Brave EmmaExploring the special bond between brothers and sisters, this fairy tale shares an important life lesson, and parents will be thrilled to introduce a story that focuses on family values with their little ones.With charming characters and a creative setting, this book truly delights with a sweet story that is sure to connect with young readers.Also serving as a great educational tool, this children's book is particularly helpful for young readers who are learning multi-syllabic words and practicing reading longer lines of dialogue and more complex sentences.Young readers will also be challenged by basic story concepts, such as plot, sequence, motivation, action, and cause and effect. In addition to being a great learning tool, this book is fun to read! Imagination is thoroughly at play in this story, which emphasizes the power of words and the importance of family.

Of Mists and Monsoons traces the varying fortunes of a young man caught up in the horror of the Irish Famine of the mid-19th Century. The story unfolds as he is rescued from certain death by starvation along with the rest of his family, and joins the British Army as a drummer boy, and travels to India. This remarkable character finds himself caught up in the Indian Mutiny 10 years later, but survives to found a family of his own. The leading character is loosely based on the author's own great-grandfather, who did leave Ireland in the mid 18th Century and travel to India with the British Army where he founded a family dynasty that endured until Partition in 1946. Anecdotes from the author's mother and extended family are used freely in the text.