Hooray! There's a Hippo on Our Roof Having a Birthday Party

Hazel Edwards

Only three sleeps to go, and then it's my birthday.  There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake, and it's his birthday, too.We are going to have our party together.  A jungle party!Join in the fun as the hippopotamus on the roof celebrates his birthday in this delightful story!...

Blow-up and Other Stories

Julio Cortazar

In the stories here— including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his film— Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious....

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

Joseph Sassoon

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. In this rich and nuanced po...