A humorously illustrated duo of children’s books take two pairs of youngsters on exciting journeys across America and to a mysterious tropical island. Alice and Sidney live in Australia. Their grandfather, Charlie, collects birds of all sorts, in pictures and glass cases, gathered from many parts of the world. His favourites are tropical birds. There is one, however, that he has never seen. This is the most splendid of all, the Bird of Paradise, which lives north of Australia in Papua New Guinea. Alice and Sidney decide that they will travel to Papua to find and photograph the fabulous bird. They are helped in their quest by the pilot Bob and his assistant Willy, who has another, unexpected guise and who leads them into amazing adventures.

Annotated selected list of floras and floristic works relating to vascular plants, including bibliographies and publications dealing with useful plants and vernacular names.

A humorously illustrated duo of children’s books take two pairs of youngsters on exciting journeys across America and to a mysterious tropical island. Holly and Woody live with their parents in New York City. Holly loves to sing and dance and Woody is good at carpentry, making Hollywood-style film sets in his room. The children have dreams of going to Hollywood and imagine they can see California from the top of the Empire State Building! By accident they escape from a theme park in a covered wagon, and find themselves travelling westwards to the Mississippi and then following – by a devious route – the trail of the pioneers. They meet up with odd characters and have endless adventures as they travel through prairie, mountain and desert. Will their Hollywood dream come true?

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.