Children category: 1253 books
by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Don L. F. Nilsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and...
Recovering The Self
A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 1) -- Focus on Abuse Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 1) January 2012 -- Focus on Abuse Recovery
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews...
Recovering The Self
A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. I, No. 1)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psycho-education. Areas of concern include aging, disabilities, health, abuse recovery, addiction, the struggle for identity,...
Recovering The Self
A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 2) -- New Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 2) April 2012
Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation. Contributors...
Histoire de Pierre Lapin
Livres d'images pour enfants, des Bedtime Story parfait, A Picture Book enfants magnifiquement illustrés selon l'âge 3-9 (French Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
En 1893, Beatrix Potter a écrit The Tale of Peter Rabbit dans une lettre l'image pour un petit garçon qu'elle connaissait qui avait été malade pendant une longue période. En 1901, elle a poursuivi en privé imprimer 250 exemplaires de l'histoire dans le temps...
by Howard Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The story goes back to the time of Yore in a small town called Nottinghamshire in merry old England. It happened like this. On a bright day a young lad, while walking through the forest of Sherwood, chanced upon the Sherrif’s soldiers and was innocently dragged into arguing with one of them. Consequently...
by Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This is an exciting story of the adventures of knights and their followers in England ruled by King Richard, the Lion Heart. It is a dangerous time for the country because the noble king is away fighting enemies in a foreign land; while at home, his greedy dissatisfied brother is plotting to grab the...
The Enchanted Screen
The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films offers readers a long overdue, comprehensive look at the rich history of fairy tales and their influence on film, complete with the inclusion of an extensive filmography compiled by the author. With this book, Jack Zipes not only looks...
The Robber with a Witch's Head
More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.
Hans Christian Andersen
The Misunderstood Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The 2005 bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth is an opportunity to re-evaluate the achievement of one of the great figures of the fairy tale and storytelling tradition, a beloved writer famous for The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling and The Red Shoes and many other now...
Beautiful Angiola
The Lost Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Laura Gonzenbach
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In one of the most startling literary discoveries of recent years, Jack Zipes has uncovered this neglected treasure trove of Sicilian folk and fairy tales. Like the Grimm brothers before her, Laura Gonzenbach, a talented Swiss-German born in Sicily, set out to gather up the tales told and retold among...
Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days
Collected Utopian Tales / New and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book is a collection of traditional German fairy tales and fables, deliberately transformed into utopian narratives and social commentary by political activists in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Against a backdrop of financial and political instability, widespread homelessness, and the reformation...
by Anthony Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Rudolf Rassendyll, a peace loving English gentleman goes to Ruritania on a secret visit. By a strange quirk of fate, Rassendyll happens to look like Rudolf the Fifth, the real heir to the throne of Ruritania, who is imprisoned in the castle of Zenda by Black Michael the evil Duke of Strelsau. Rudolf...
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
"When I fly among the stars and see the lights in the distance, I say to myself that this is my little Consuelo is calling me…" Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote about love for his wife. A graceful Consuelo Suncin inspired an outstanding French writer, poet and pilot to create a beautiful...