Christee Curran-Bauer

An action-packed early chapter book full of humor and adventure, featuring pigeon detectives and a cohort of other animals.Lights. Camera. Heartbreak.The residents of City Park are ready for this year's beloved baking competition, The Great Bake-a-Thon: Valentine's Edition, but someone keeps stealing the props! Without essential items like whisks, cake tins, and cookie cutters, the show may come to a grinding halt. Luckily, the Pigeon Private Detectives—PPD for short—are on the scene and determined to get to the heart of the matter. But the clues on the case are quite curious, leaving the PPD perplexed. Have they finally met their match in a case they can't crack?Once again, author-illustrator Christee Curran-Bauer pokes fun at detective procedurals with kid-friendly humor, as she did in The Case of the Missing Tarts and The Case of the Poached Painting.

作者在 Pigeon Private Detectives 系列中，打造一組愛吃、健談又充滿好奇的鴿子偵探。無論是果醬塔失竊、名畫被盜，或情人節烘焙大賽道具神秘消失，他們總能以獨特的方式追查線索，並在過程中鬧出不少令人會心一笑的場面。作者以圖文交錯的方式呈現節奏明快的追查過程，角色個性鮮明，讓初讀橋梁書書的孩子能輕鬆進入故事世界。Book 1: Pigeon Private Detectives: The Case of the Missing Tarts果醬塔在鴿子偵探們眼前消失，讓原本期待大快朵頤的三人組又餓又困惑。本書帶領讀者跟著 Pigeon Private Detectives 展開輕鬆的推理冒險。他們在公園和城裡四處搜尋線索，懷疑名單越拉越長，卻始終追不到真正的偷食者。Book 2: Pigeon Private Detectives: The Case of the Pilfered Painting食物藝術館在夜裡遭竊，一幅珍貴畫作悄悄被帶走。三人組趕赴現場，面對複雜線索、混亂證詞以及形跡可疑的訪客，開始一場節奏明快的追查。嫌犯善於偽裝，使調查一度陷入僵局。圖像搭配文字，閱讀的同時還能練習理解推理邏輯。Book 3: Pigeon Private Detectives: The Great Bake-a-Thon Mystery情人節烘焙大賽即將開錄，卻有重要道具陸續失蹤，讓工作人員憂心比賽可能停擺。三人組接獲求助後，穿梭於舞台、後台與準備區，試圖找出造成問題的真正原因。案件的解決方式溫柔而帶著反思，讓孩子在閱讀推理的同時，也感受合作與理解的重要。

The Museum of Food Art is in a state of panic! A priceless painting was pilfered in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the Pigeon Private Detectives--PPD for short--are on the scene. These three detectives crave cracking a good case almost as much as they like snacks. But can they catch a thief who appears to be a master of disguise? Once again, author-illustrator Christee Curran-Bauer pokes fun at detective procedurals with kid-friendly humor, as she did in book one of the series, The Case of the Missing Tarts!

The Pigeon Detectives are looking forward to devouring a delectable platter of jam tarts--until the tasty treats are stolen from right under their beaks! With tummies grumbling, the PPD are on the hunt for clues, but can the detectives recover the tarts in time before they are all eaten--or worse--stale? As the list of suspects grows longer, our heroes wonder if they'll ever catch the thief jam-handed. Pigeon Private Detectives: The Case of the Missing Tarts, Christee Curran-Bauer's author-illustrator debut, pokes fun at detective procedurals with kid-friendly humor!

She can skate . . . but can she bake? In this charming sequel to Mice Skating, Lucy, the adventure-loving mouse, learns that everyone needs a little help sometimes--and that's okay. When a blustery, b

熱愛美食的鴿子偵探，決心找回消失的名畫，一刻都不能等！食物美術館陷入了一片恐慌！無價之寶在半夜遭竊。幸好鴿子偵探社的石甜甜、丹麥酥，還有柯士達來到現場。三位偵探熱中破解困難案件，就像愛吃點心一樣...

熱愛美食的鴿子偵探，決心找出偷走果醬塔的犯人，一個都不放過！石甜甜、丹麥酥，還有柯士達，是鴿子偵探社的三位偵探。他們滿心期待的世界第一美味果醬塔，竟在自家遭竊！飢腸轆轆的三隻鴿子，如何化飢餓為力...

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater

This student version of the popular bestseller, Life Cycle Assessment Handbook, is not a watered-down version of the original, but retains all of the important information and valuable lessons provide

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated cause for Victorian intellectuals, a vehicle for innovative minds of the theater

The first book of its kind, the LCA Handbook will become an invaluable resource for environmentally progressive manufacturers and suppliers, product and process designers, executives and managers, and

In A Haunted Mind, Dr. Bob Curran explores what motivated Lovecraft--his personal life is just as strange as some of his creations--and drove him to create his terrible cosmos. Using both folklore and

Organic Syntheses consists of protocols for the synthesis of useful chemical compounds. Each protocol is repeated in the laboratory of one of the editorial board members for accuracy or for missing ex

This book describes a vision of a future end state that delivers capital and operating expense savings compared to today's traditional operational models. It considers business, architectural, an

This book explains why applications running on cloud might not deliver the same service reliability, availability, latency and overall quality to end users as they do when the applications are running

The all-embracing, two-volume Handbook on the Development of Children’s Memory represents the first place in which critical topics in memory development are covered from multiple perspectives, from in

A holistic approach to service reliability and availability of cloud computingReliability and Availability of Cloud Computing provides IS/IT system and solution architects, developers, and engineers w

How Geographic Redundancy Can Improve Service Availability and Reliability of Computer-Based SystemsEnterprises make significant investments in geographically redundant systems to mitigate the very un

System reliability, availability and robustness are often not well understood by system architects, engineers and developers. They often don’t understand what drives customer’s avai

The bestselling guide to the leading image-editing software, fully updated Previous editions of this For Dummies guide have sold more 650,000 copies. Richly illustrated in full color, this edition co

The art of persuasion as taught by one of the world's most sought-after speakers and pitchmen In this daring book, Joel Bauer teaches you how to persuade by making your messages entertaining. Learn th

An exploration of memory formation in young children Parameters of Remembering and Forgetting in the Transition from Infancy to Early Childhood details research findings related to long-term memory fo

As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensable resource contains all the practical tools that