Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool
Author: Martin Gottfried
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2002-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743244761

Gottfried's capably researched and recounted biography offers a none too flattering glimpse into Kaye's well-guarded personal life, including his egotism, cruelty, his strained marriage and his flirtations and affairs. His career is treated in detail, from his obvious early talent to the creation of his acting personae and his sad professional and personal decline before his death in 1987. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye
Author: David Koenig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Actors
ISBN: 9781937878016

Packed with never-before-published anecdotes and photos, "Danny Kaye: King of Jesters" takes the first-ever behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Kaye's film, TV, radio and stage work, and at the "secret life" of the incredible performer behind them.

The Danny Kaye Story

The Danny Kaye Story
Author: Kurt D. Singer
Publisher: New York : Nelson
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1958
Genre: Comedians
ISBN:

Traces the entertainer's career from his boyhood in Brooklyn to his triumphs in Hollywood, New York and London, and his humanitarian work for the sick children of the world on his UNICEF tour.

Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson
Author: Sam Irvin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 143917654X

Presents a tribute to the Hollywood entertainer-turned-author. Covers her close friendship with Judy Garland, contributions as a celebrity trainer, and creation of the mischievous six-year-old Plaza mascot, Eloise.

Zathura

Zathura
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618253968

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The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
Author: Frank Loesser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2014
Genre: Ducklings
ISBN: 9781742836447

There once was an ugly duckling, With feathers all stubby and brown, And the other birds, in so many words, said, 'Get out of town!' A picture book based on the much-loved and heart-warming song. Includes a CD performed by favourite children's entertainer Justine Clarke!

Red Shoes and Other Tales

Red Shoes and Other Tales
Author: Metaphrog
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1629913847

As the child of peasants, Karen grew up with a pair of simple red shoes. Then, when her parents died, Karen was adopted by a rich old woman who gave Karen a new pair of red shoes that would make princesses green with envy. This newfound wealth causes Karen to forget her humble origins and grow up to become a cruel and vain adult. Then, one day, the red shoes that sparked her greed come to life and steer Karen down a path she never would have imagined in her wildest dreams. This volume also includes Metaphrog's adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic, "The Little Match Girl" and a tale of their own invention, "The Glass Case".

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Tikki Tikki Tembo
Author: Arlene Mosel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2007-04-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466815523

Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. Tikki Tikki Tembo is the winner of the 1968 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.

The True Story of My Life: A Sketch

The True Story of My Life: A Sketch
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465603816

ÊMy life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy had met me and said, "Choose now thy own course through life, and the object for which thou wilt strive, and then, according to the development of thy mind, and as reason requires, I will guide and defend thee to its attainment," my fate could not, even then, have been directed more happily, more prudently, or better. The history of my life will say to the world what it says to meÑThere is a loving God, who directs all things for the best. My native land, Denmark, is a poetical land, full of popular traditions, old songs, and an eventful history, which has become bound up with that of Sweden and Norway. The Danish islands are possessed of beautiful beech woods, and corn and clover fields: they resemble gardens on a great scale. Upon one of these green islands, Funen, stands Odense, the place of my birth. Odense is called after the pagan god Odin, who, as tradition states, lived here: this place is the capital of the province, and lies twenty-two Danish miles from Copenhagen. In the year 1805 there lived here, in a small mean room, a young married couple, who were extremely attached to each other; he was a shoemaker, scarcely twenty-two years old, a man of a richly gifted and truly poetical mind. His wife, a few years older than himself, was ignorant of life and of the world, but possessed a heart full of love. The young man had himself made his shoemaking bench, and the bedstead with which he began housekeeping; this bedstead he had made out of the wooden frame which had borne only a short time before the coffin of the deceased Count Trampe, as he lay in state, and the remnants of the black cloth on the wood work kept the fact still in remembrance. Instead of a noble corpse, surrounded by crape and wax-lights, here lay, on the second of April, 1805, a living and weeping child,Ñthat was myself, Hans Christian Andersen. During the first day of my existence my father is said to have sate by the bed and read aloud in Holberg, but I cried all the time. "Wilt thou go to sleep, or listen quietly?" it is reported that my father asked in joke; but I still cried on; and even in the church, when I was taken to be baptized, I cried so loudly that the preacher, who was a passionate man, said, "The young one screams like a cat!" which words my mother never forgot. A poor emigrant, Gomar, who stood as godfather, consoled her in the mean time by saying that the louder I cried as a child, all the more beautifully should I sing when I grew older.