Questa è la storia di Gianenzo, primo classificato nazionale juniores di scacchi, disegno, canto, solfeggio, aritmetica, pianoforte e chimica. Sempre a parimerito con i suoi acerrimi nemici: Luigifausta, vera reginetta delle interrogazioni, e Pancraziomaria, infallibile divoratore di date. Gianenzo è il più rapido nel calcolo, ma questo gli assicurerà l vittoria finale?
Garetti, maestro elementare dal magro stipendio, ha moglie e quattro figli. Un giorno fa da cicerone in giro per Roma a un principe indiano che lo ricompensa con un po' di denaro. Tempo dopo il sultano manda in regalo ai bimbi del maestro un elefantino che provoca scompiglio. Alla fine verrà comprato dallo zoo a lauto prezzo, così da risanare le finanze della modesta famigliola.
A photographer decides to buy a car with the money he'll get for his prizewinning photo, but the postman brings only a diploma instead of money. Being subjected to the ridicule of their neighbors, his family decides to buy an used Buick, in spite of being against it at first. That would turn out to be a huge mistake, since the breakdowns are more often that they can afford.
Eight thousand kilometres from the United Kingdom, in the middle of the South Atlantic, is the remote British Overseas Territory of St Helena. Four thousand people live on the Island. Extraordinarily the only way to get there is on the Royal Mail Ship, which sails from Cape Town once a month. But 350 years of isolation, since the island was first settled, are about to come to an end. In a few months' time St Helena's newly-constructed airport will receive its first flights. As they prepare for a very different future Our World has been to meet St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolation.
Lonnie, a crop duster pilot, must lead a mismatched group of survivors to escape the deadly zombie horde after an experimental chemical, intended to control the invasive kudzu vine, transforms the citizens of Charleston, MS into zombies.
The gnomes find an egg and decide to take care of it together. But whose egg is it? That of a bird? A snake? Or a crocodile? No, it's a cute little duckling. Kwebbel takes care of the young, while Klus and Lui look for the mother duck..
Prisoners are dumped on a sand planet dubbed Earth 21-523 where most are immediately killed by the sand people and the remainder struggle for existence. That is until a new prisoner arrives with ideas of providing irrigation of the desert. But he still must first fight the nomadic sand people.
