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Isaac the Alchemist by Mary Losure
18.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
A surprising true story of Isaac Newton's boyhood suggests an intellectual development owing as much to magic as science. Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing ...Show more
The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World by Mary Losure
29.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
The enchanting true story of a girl who saw fairies, and another with a gift for art, who concocted a story to stay out of trouble and ended up fooling the world. Frances was nine when she first saw the fairies. They were tiny men, dressed all in green. Nobody but Frances saw them, so her cousin Elsie p ...Show more
Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron by Mary Losure
27.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
What happens when society finds a wild boy alone in the woods and tries to civilize him? A true story from the author of "The Fairy Ring." One day in 1798, woodsmen in southern France returned from the forest having captured a naked boy. He had been running wild, digging for food, and was covered with s ...Show more
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