Crimson Dragon Publishing carries books that encourage readers of all ages by sparking the imagination. While we focus on the fantasy and science fiction genres, we also carry illustrated books for young readers that focus on social-emotional skills development and fictionalized non-fiction.
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Editorial Drakul is an independent, privately owned company, founded in June 2006 and dedicated mainly to the publication of novels and comics, but also children's literature.
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Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history. They are iconic and tell us much about the environments in which we and they live. Their conservation is an important part of biodiversity conservation. One modern dragonfly species is listed as extinct, with many others currently threatened. It is now essential to increase conservation efforts towards saving these threatened species, with strategies now available for doing this. Recovery of dragonfly populations goes hand in hand with improvements to both freshwater conditions and bank vegetation quality. In contrast, some other dragonfly species have benefitted greatly from human transformation of the landscape, with artificial ponds in particular, increasing the population levels of many species. In turn, climate change is seeing many geographical range shifts. Dragonflies are variously sensitive to the health of freshwater systems, and the quality of vegetation along rivers and around ponds. Dragonflies are excellent indicators in these times of great concern over the quality of our freshwater supplies. Their wide range of sensitivities enables us to measure the extent to which freshwater ecosystems are either deteriorating or are improving when we undertake restoration. They enable us to gauge how well we are conserving freshwaters, whether ponds and lakes, streams or rivers. They are also good umbrellas for many other freshwater inhabitants, which altogether reflect the health of a freshwater system. Conservation of Dragonflies: Sentinels for Freshwater Conservation is for naturalists, citizen scientists, entomologists and conservation scientists, as well as practitioners and policy makers around the world.
This book portrays the spirit of love and cooperation between different types of insects. A dragonfly notices an ant falling into a river, and quickly throws a leaf to help it. The dragonfly quickly seeks help. It asks a housefly, a butterfly, a bee, a grasshopper, and a beetle for help. It also gets information from a duck, an egret, a kingfisher, and an otter. Finally, all six of them successfully pull the ant to the ground.
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China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Slope of Sisters tells a story of meeting childhood self. Xiaomei incarnated a waterblue dragonfly she met in her childhood. She flied over large fields with wheat waves and the childhood hillside full of broad bean flowers, and recalled the summer vacation she spent with her sister in her childhood when her sister firmly said: "You should learn to be strong and don't cry."
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Two young boys seeking to be initiated into the order of warriors, find their lives upturned when an accident wakes a vengeful goddess. This story, weaved from the oral lore and magic of the Igbo takes the reader on a journey through the lake where mermaids and crocodiles contend for power. And through enchanted kingdoms ruled by mythical spirits. A curse has been unleashed that would cause the destruction of the world. An army of both humans and mythical creatures must be raised to defend the world. Only a white heart can lead this great army.
What is the temperature of your heart? Do you feel it? There is a melodic synchrony between breathing, emotions, and the brain; a rhythm that will allow you to turn each breath into a genuine act of gratitude. In this book, you will find 77 rituals, 77 powerful and simple practices to observe your mind, honor your name, change the narrative, connect with the elements, choose what you ingest at subtle and physical levels, manage your rest spaces, and fine-tune your vibratory frequency. 77 answers that invite you to action and conscious practice to recalibrate and awaken. Identify your heartbeat, find your pulse, awaken the unparalleled intelligence of the heart.
On a warm summer day Nele finds a peculiar little creature in her garden. Her dad explains: „It’s a dragonfly larva“. Together they watch the dragonfly’s changing from larva in an egg to hatching a dragonfly and drying their wings in the sun and going on its first flight. A story for 3 year olds and above about the fascinating transformation species like dragonflies undergo.
A story of a warm encounter drawn together with a child and red dragonflies A young girl who lives with her grandmother waits constantly for her mother to visit. Ever since the girl’s father suddenly passed away, all the girl can do is wait for her mother to come visit. The girl waits and waits and one day, she observes many dragonflies flying, and is inspired to send letters to her mother with the help of the dragonflies. This is a heartwarming story of a young girl being reunited with her mother with the help of some dragonflies. * The book is located inside this cover which is designed in the same shape as the dragonfly letters from the story.
Fifteen years old. Wanted:Dead or Alive "Don't love a spy," warns fifteen year old Pinkerton agent Maddie Bradford, a lonely, rebellious outsider with a mind on fire and a photographic memory. It is 1861, the Civil War has just started and this motherless teen must move with her soldier-father from New Hampshire to Washington, DC; a city at war, packed cheek by jowl with soldiers, Rebel spies, slave catchers, and traitors of all stripes bent on waging a war of destruction against the Union, and President Lincoln himself. Maddie's journal, written in secret, of course, begins with her arrival at her aunt's DC boardinghouse through the first year of the Civil War, a time as Maddie puts it, "full of dips and dangers," when she becomes a fearless Union spy. And then there is the mysterious, maddening Jake Whitestone, a young man who awakens something equally dangerous in Maddie: Love in a time of terror. Civil War historian, author, and lecturer Jane Singer brings her unique voice to Alias Dragonfly. Visit her at www.JaneSinger.com
This series of scientific picture books painted by Russian writer Sasha is for children aged 3 to 10, which are filled with delicate surreal hand-paintings. The insects painted in these books are lifelike and also very beautiful with artistic values. Children will learn a lot about insects as well as enjoy the charming pictures.
A tender love story set during the building of Dublin’s iconic Ha’penny Bridge in 1816, Mairead Rooney’s debut novel THE IRONMAN is a beautiful portrayal of finding intimacy in the face of grief, and will appeal to readers of the historical fiction of Emma Donoghue or Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn.
Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel chronicles the story of Eva and Inge, two identical twin sisters growing up in Nazi Germany. As Jews, life becomes increasingly difficult for them and their family under the Nazi regime. After witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht, they realize they must leave their beloved homeland if they hope to survive. They travel to Antwerp, Belgium, and then on to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, chasing the diamond trade in hopes of finding work for their father, a diamond merchant. Finally, they find a home in beautiful South Africa and begin to settle down. But just as things begin to feel safe, their new home becomes caught up in it’s own battles of bigotry and hate under the National Party’s demand for an apartheid South Africa. Eva and Inge wonder if they will ever be allowed to live in peace, though they cling to the hope for a better day when there will be “an understanding of the past, compassion for all humanity, and …hope and courage to move forward across great divides.” Worldwide rights are available for this novel. I would like to sell Across Great Divides in Europe, Africa and Asia. The readership for Across Great Divides are history buffs, both female and male, and all ages, from late teens through adult.
This book of poetry contains musings on:adventure, anniversaries, the beach, breakfast, childhood, clouds,constellations, courage, delayed gratification, dragonflies, eating alone,falling in love, first dates, frenemies, goodbyes, growing up, half-truths,heartbreak, holding hands, homecomings, insecurities that follow youaround, the internet, jealousy, kisses, marshmallows, memory, mornings,mortality, newsletters, opposites, paper cuts, pixie dust, plane crashes,popularity, queues, rain, report cards, room service, science, a sea ofco!ee, shipwrecks, sick days, souvenirs, space, tattoos, tense luncheswith mom, trains, travel, waiting, weekends, white dresses, yoga
It’s the height of summer and Harry’s feeling the heat. So he scurries off to the frog pond where he hops with Melissa the frog into the garden gnome’s little sailing boat. Hauling aboard a lily leaf for a sail, they set off on a voyage across the pond – but the wind catches their sail and soon they’re speeding through the bullrushes, over which they’re not tall enough to see… Then a grumpy dragonfly appears, warning of trouble ahead and the two friends hold on tight to the mast as their little boat carries them towards a roaring waterfall!
Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Who is the three-month-old baby, sole survivor of a plane crash?Two families, one rich, the other not, are tearing each other apart to be recognized as the family of the baby the media nicknamed the Dragonfly. Eighteen years later, a private investigator claims to have discovered the answer. He is murdered before he reveals his findings but leaves behind a notebook containing all the details of his investigation. From the Paris Butte-aux-Cailles district to Dieppe, from Val-de-Marne to the Jurassic slopes of Mount Terrible, the reader is drawn into a breathless race to the end. Are luck and coincidences simply the rebounds of fate? Or has someone, from the beginning, been manipulating all the actors in this drama?
Animals are amazing magicians! There are 3 titles in this series: each titles uses a different mechanism to show 6 kinds of "magic transformations", which can greatly inspire kids' curiosity and interest, and lead them to explore more about Nature. For the first title, the contrast between animal babies and adult animals is vividly demonstrated by amazing bouncing popup elements, and it's like this that a larva becomes a mature dragonfly. With revolving mechanisms, the second title shows how animals use mimicry to protect themselves from predators and how butterflies disguise themselves as owls, for example. The third title shows with sliding and pulling cards, how animals avoid predators by blending themselves in with the surrounding environment. For example, how a leaf-tail gecko can hide among dead leaves and survive! A series not to be missed. 3 titles available -Miracles of Growing Up -Super Mimicry Show -Who Is Hiding There? Please contact chenzhuo_af@126.com if interested.
1st place tie (with book 7 in the Whimsy Wood Series) in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Children’s Section Welcome to Whimsy Wood! It's January in Whimsy Wood and Posie Pixie's just made two new friends! Come and meet Violet Vole and her best friend Sonny Shrew (the coolest dude in Whimsy Wood!) in this enchanting tale of friendship and fun overcoming the elements! REVIEWS 'I loved this story! It was really funny when a snowflake knocked the pink flower off Wibble Woodlouse's head!' Norah Dunworth aged 7yrs. 'I wish I could play with Posie and her friends, sliding down the copper kettle spout!' Stanley Baker, aged 7yrs. 'Another perfect nature and fun-filled addition to the magical world of Whimsy Wood. We loved reading this book with its descriptive text. It's great that these books are educational as well as fun!' Briony, blogger for www.anywaytostayathome.com 'I was so happy when Posie's bluebell hat jingled and tinkled again and it wasn't fed up anymore.' Hannah Underwood aged 6yrs. 'Brilliant book! The snowball fight was so cool! I like Sonny Shrew as he wears shorts in winter, just like me!' Max Lewis aged 6yrs. 'Readers are transported to Posie Pixie's delightful micro world of wonder and awe. I thoroughly enjoyed the story. The ending leaves you wanting to know what Posie and her woodland friends will get up to next!' Jillian Gorra, Reading Recovery Teacher, Ilminster Avenue, E-ACT Academy, Bristol.
1st place tie (with book 6 in the Whimsy Wood Series) in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, Children’s Section WELCOME TO THE LATEST INSTALLMENT IN THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING ‘WHIMSY WOOD’ SERIES 'Posie Pixie And The Pancakes' brings us to the end of this 1st super set, in the wondrous 'Whimsy Wood' series. 'Posie Pixie' has been on so many exciting adventures already! She's hunted for a new Autumn home, hosted a fireworks party and had her plans scuppered by a sudden snowstorm! Book 7 is just as jam-packed with fun, frivolities, nature and necessary whimsy, as the previous delightful 6 books from this enchanting series. Posie Pixie And The Pancakes' is a really fun story which I enjoyed a lot as I love pancakes!! I also loved all the characters names, especially Mrs Scarlet the squirrel and Posie Pixie! - Erin Steel, aged 7 years. Another visit to the magical 'Whimsy Wood' does not disappoint. When Posie Pixie and her friends set out to enjoy pancake day, lots of whimsical fun ensues. With humour and wonderfully descriptive language, you feel like you are part of Posie's latest adventure and the characters soon become your friends. What a great way to inspire children to read, by introducing them to this fantastic series of books! - Mrs Teri Brown, Literacy Leader, Staniland Academy, Boston, Lincolnshire. I love Posie Pixie and I wanted to eat up all her yummy pancakes too! I really liked the bit where Bromley Badger drops his party poppers! - Freddie Hues aged 4 years. I loved reading this book so much, that I've been making pixie costumes from leaves and putting them out for the pixies! - Amelie Bonner, aged 7 years I felt sorry for Posie and Wibble when they ate too much pancakes and had sore tummies! - Jake Bonner aged 5 years I wish I could go to the Badgers' party! - Logan Bonner - aged 3 years
