statues

A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a ghost.

A little stone lion, smaller than a cat, tells about the Chinese village that it guards.

Describes the conception, construction in France, erection in New York Harbor, and recent renovation of the tallest statue of modern times.

Presents three stories of murder and romance for teens.

When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.

Depicts Larry, the former night watchman at the New York Museum of Natural History, when he goes to the Smithsonian where his statue-friends from New York have been put into storage. He finds the magic tablet that brings them all to life at night but the Egyptian pharaoh, Kahmunrah, tries to take it from Larry for his own evil purpose. His friends, old and new, band together to defeat Kahmunrah and when Larry and his friends fly back to New York, Larry gets his old job back.

A garden statue of Belladonna, brought to life by a flash of lightning, gathers a stone army from gardens and churches as twelve-year old Poppy and her friend Emma watch, fascinated and terrified.

Uses easy-to-read text to introduce the Statue of Liberty as an American symbol of freedom.

Twelve-year-old George Chapman and his friend Edie, the only humans who did not disappear from London when time froze, move toward a final confrontation with the Walker, a murderous immortal that has aligned itself with the forces of evil in the battle between the city's statues and gargoyles.

Describes how the French sculptor Fr?d?ric Auguste Bartholdi realized his dream of building the giant Statue of Liberty.