In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funi…
The eight story. Nineteen years later. It’s been nineteen years since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world, and now they’re back on a most extraordinary adventure, joined by a brave new generation that’s only just arrived at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his younge…
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by extraordinary man—its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi—who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity. In real life, the Totto-chan of…
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast. Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charimastically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III rem…
When Bao finds out that her beloved forest is threatened with demolition, she decides to organise a protest. The boys take a bit more persuading than her best friends Tuva and Linnea. But how can she make the adults listen, when she’s old enough to know what needs to be done but too young to be taken seriously?