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Dominoes One The Wrong Trousers™
Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-trousers.
At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different - very different.
This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.
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Dominoes One True Heroes of Sport
Donatella Fitzgerald
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!
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Dominoes One Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?
Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.
After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the
surface.
But how can they escape?
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Dominoes Starter Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
'Today you can go round the world in eighty days,' says Phileas Fogg.
'Do it, and I pay you 20,000 pounds,' says his friend Stuart.
This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories. Phileas Fogg must get back to London by December 21st or lose all his money. And with the help of his servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels in many ways - from train to elephant - and has some surprising adventures on the way.
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Dominoes Starter Hercules
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Hercules is the strongest man in the world, but one day he does something very bad.
The priestess at Delphi tells him: 'The gods are angry with you. For twelve years you must work for King Eurystheus, and do twelve tasks for him. When you finish, the gods can forgive your crime.'
Some tasks are easier, and some tasks are more difficult. Can Hercules finish all twelve of them? And what happens when he does?
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Dominoes Starter Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth.
This is the beginning of one of Jules Vernes most exciting stories.
'Is this message true? We must go to Iceland and see!' says Lidenbrock excitedly. But his nephew, Axel, wants to stay at home.
Can Lidenbrock and Axel and their Icelandic guide, Hans find the
centre of the Earth? And can they all
get home alive after their many underground adventures?
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Dominoes Starter Sinbad
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor and always in danger. But all the time he is learning from his adventures, until finally he returns home to Baghdad, an older and wiser man.
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Dominoes Three The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Text adaptation by Clare West
Marseille, France, 1815. It is Edmond Dantès' wedding day. But his enemies have other plans, and Edmond is arrested and sent to the terrible island prison of Château d'If. For fourteen long years he waits for the right moment to escape.
And now Edmond is a rich man, with many disguises, and a new name. The Count of Monte Cristo begins his revenge...
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Dominoes Three The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua.
On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be heroes and some people will die. And what will happen to their friend Uncas, the last of the Mohican Indians?
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Dominoes Two A Close Shave™
Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit?
Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong.
Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?
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