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41) Rapunzel
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Once upon a time, a husband and wife were expecting a beautiful baby girl! One night, the husband snuck into an evil witch's garden to pick rapunzel lettuce for his wife. The witch suddenly appeared, demanding that the husband give her their baby in exchange for the witch's lettuce. When the baby was finally born, the witch named her Rapunzel and locked her in a high tower. But when a handsome prince hears Rapunzel singing one day, he is determined...
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(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity — yet, there were barely any stories in my heart.
Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part...
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(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity — yet, there were barely any stories in my heart.
Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part...
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Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year.
The 41 stories and poem in this volume were written by authors between the ages of seven and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in...
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(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity – yet, there were barely any stories in my heart.
Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part...
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Ce livre contient des étapes prouvées et des stratégies pour utiliser divers sorts Wiccan pour vous aider à améliorer l'état actuel de votre vie.D'améliorer votre chance financière jusqu'à vous rendre plus attractif en relation à l'amour, il y a plusieurs manières différentes de comment utiliser ces sorts. En effet, votre intention joue un rôle central quand il en vient à sa création.
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Histoires traditionnelles belges pour jeunes lecteurs.
Si nous pouvions remonter le temps et passer vers la fin d'un jour d'été dans un de nos anciens villages, nous y serions témoins d'un spectacle fort intéressant et qui, chose regrettable, a rarement tenté le pinceau d'un peintre. Ils sont cinq, six, huit ou dix enfants, quelquefois moins, rarement plus, accroupis et muets. L'un d'eux parle... et quels sons étranges résonnent alors à...
48) The Blue Door
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Welcome to Pumpernickel House, a bi-annual journal of contemporary fairy tale, fabulism, magical realism, the strangely beautiful and the beautifully strange. Behind this door you'll find women who are birds, girls who love golems, beastly babies washed ashore by the tide, and a batch of Baba Yaga's special cookies. Get lost in the woods and stumble upon the intersection of past and future in the poetry of Jennifer Lynn Krohn, or step across our threshold...
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This book, 'Popular Nursery Stories - Illustrated by John Hassall' forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration and classic children's literature. This is a fantastic collection of stories from the well known authors the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. They are decorated with John Hassall's bold and charming black and white line drawing and colour plates. Tales include: Hansel and Grettel, Snow-Drop,...
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The Banbury Cross Series was a collection of 12 volumes of books edited by Grace Rhys and published in London by Dent in the 1890s. Each book is attractively illustrated with full page and partial page pen and ink drawings in a classic Art Nouveau style by leading artists of the era. The legendary figure of East Anglian folklore, Tom Hickathrift, appears next to the curious tale 'The Fairy Gifts' in this volume of the series. Accompanied by H. Granville...
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A collection of horror short stories based on legends and tall-tales from throughout the World.
From India and the coasts of Albania to the wilds of North America, these original stories bring to life old tales of darkness and horror. Featuring the works of: L.F. Falconer, Linda Kay Hardie, K.N. Johnson, Shashi Kadapa, C.R. Langille, Mike Marcus, Sergio Palumbo, Joshua P. Sorensen, and R. B. Swallow.
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This book is a beautiful collection of the fascinating stories told by the indigenous peoples across the continent of North America. The exciting adventures of trickster figures like Glooscap, Raven and Coyote are combined here with classic legends of creation. These legends span the width of the continent with tales from the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes region to the Inuits of Alaska. Together, these carefully chosen tales show the sheer diversity of...
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(From the pen of the chief editor Mei Zihan) Although I am Chinese, as a child I seldom heard adults tell stories of Chinese ancestry or tradition. Stories of our heritage, are important us. Folk tales teach and give children identity – yet, there were barely any stories in my heart.
Later, even after becoming a writer, and later a professor, I still experienced an emptiness. That is why I think children should have traditional stories as part...
56) Cinderella
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Read along with Disney! This is the story of Ella. When she was a little girl, her mother and father taught her to be kind. They taught her to be good. But one sad day her mother passed away. When her father remarried, her new stepfamily was mean to her. They called her Cinderella since they made her sleep by the fire. But her kindness won the heart of a man named Kit. Ella hoped to see him at the royal ball. But Ella's stepfamily was jealous of Ella's...
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Read along with Disney! It's the morning of Rapunzel's eighteenth birthday and she just ventured outside the tall tower that had been her home her entire life! Now, together with Flynn and Maximus, she's traveling to the kingdom on an adventure!
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Fantasy and Mystery by AAVV
10 Authors measure themselves against the great Mysteries of our History.
Fantamisteri, Fantastic Mysteries, Fantasy and Mystery ... many different ways (even if we recognized ourselves more in the first one) to define this collection of stories, written by ten different authors, who wanted to try to investigate the Mystery and the Fantastic, ranging from History to Fantasy, from the Yellow that is tinged with Horror...
59) Crowns
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Authors Brittany Eden and Brigitte Cromey have collaborated as co-editors to bring you Crowns, a royal-themed anthology, which features a fantasy romance novella by Brigitte Cromey and a curated collection of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art.
60) Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast: The Fairies' New Forest Friend: A Disney Read-Along
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Read along with Disney! When Fawn, a curious animal-talent fairy, discovers a mysterious beast deep inside a dark cave in the Pixie Hollow forest, she quickly realizes that, even though he looks scary, he is a gentle giant. But Tink and the other fairies aren't so sure about this new animal friend. Follow along with the word for word narration as Fawn unravels the truth about the legend of the NeverBeast and convinces the girls to trust all beings,...
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