Orkney Folk Tales

Orkney Folk Tales
Author: Tom Muir
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0750955333

The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.

Fairy Tales from Many Lands

Fairy Tales from Many Lands
Author:
Publisher: Egmont UK Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN: 9781405267410

This beautiful collection of fairy tales includes stories from around the world. Alongside familiar tales from England and France - "Jack the Giant-Killer" and "Sleepy Beauty" - are lesser known fairy tales, such as: "Cesarino and the Dragon" from Italy, Japan's "The Adventures of Little Peachling," the Serbian tale of "The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens," and many more.Accompanied by the distinctive and imaginative illustrations of Arthur Rackham, this collection is sure to delight a whole new generation of readers.

Fairy Tales from Many Lands

Fairy Tales from Many Lands
Author: Katharine Pyle
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Fairy Tales from Many Lands" is an outstanding collection of fairy tales retold by Katharine Pyle, who was an American artist, poet, and children's writer. This book contains many short books that is educational. An excerpt from the first chapter of the book read thus "The Seven Golden Peahens (from the servian folklore); "There was once a king who had three sons, and he had also a golden apple tree, that bore nothing but golden apples, and this tree he loved as though it had been his daughter..."

Alice in Tumblr-land

Alice in Tumblr-land
Author: Tim Manley
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0698136217

Disney meets Lena Dunham in this illustrated humor book featuring your favorite fairy-tale characters dating and finding their way in 21st-century America The Ugly Duckling still feels gross compared to everyone else, but now she’s got Instagram, and there’s this one filter that makes her look awesome. Cinderella swaps her glass slippers for Crocs. The Tortoise and the Hare Facebook stalk each other. Goldilocks goes gluten free. And Peter Pan finally has to grow up and get a job, or at least start paying rent. Here are more than one hundred fairy tales, illustrated and re-imagined for today. Instead of fairy godmothers, there’s Siri. And rather than big bad wolves, there are creepy dudes on OkCupid. In our brave new world of social networking, YouTube, and texting, fairy tales can once again lead us to “happily ever after”—and have us laughing all the way.

Holling Clancy Holling's Stories from Many Lands

Holling Clancy Holling's Stories from Many Lands
Author: Holling Clancy Holling
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486496341

Filled with beautiful color illustrations, three tenderhearted tales by a Caldecott honoree offer enchanting glimpses of foreign cultures: Little Big-Bye-and-Bye, which takes place in an Indian pueblo; Choo-Me-Shoo, a tale of Eskimo life; and the jungle story Rum-Tum-Tummy.

The Land of Stories: A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales

The Land of Stories: A Treasury of Classic Fairy Tales
Author: Chris Colfer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 031643292X

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a gorgeous, full-color fairy-tale treasury. Dear Reader, you hold in your hands a very special book that contains more than thirty-five classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, plus your very own survival guide to the Land of Stories. If you notice the pages glowing, followed by an inviting humming noise, don't be afraid! That is just the book's magic. But whatever you do, don't lean too far into the book. You never know where you might end up. Enter the world of fairy tales in this stunning illustrated gift book that includes more than thirty-five beloved stories and rhymes retold by #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer. This gorgeous, full-color companion book to the Land of Stories series will appeal to new and old fans alike, who will delight in favorite classics such as "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Jack and the Beanstalk," and more. Here is the beloved fairy-tale treasury that Alex and Conner fall into in The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell--a beautifully designed addition to the series, and the magical book that started it all!

Fairy Tale Land

Fairy Tale Land
Author: Kate Davies
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0711247536

Fairy Tale Land is a large-format gift book filled with classic fairy tales and exquisitely illustrated maps for children to pore over.

Kissing the Witch

Kissing the Witch
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1999-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064407721

Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA

Funnybooks

Funnybooks
Author: Michael Barrier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520283902

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.