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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Fairy tales, folk tales, fables, magical tales & traditional stories
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The Marvelous Maze
(Hardcover)
Maxine Rose Schur; Illustrated by Robin DeWitt, Patricia Grush-DeWitt
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R636
Discovery Miles 6 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose
in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to
stop him...except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and
no one will believe they're in danger. With only the help of the
ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose
and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man's
secret scheme: He possesses a powerful magic potion that turns
every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army
of literature's greatest villains! So begins a race through the
magical Land of Oz, the fantastical world of Neverland, the madness
of Wonderland, and beyond. Can Alex and Conner catch up to the
Masked Man, or will they be one step behind until it's too late?
Fairy tales and classic stories collide in the fourth adventure in
the bestselling Land of Stories series as the twins travel beyond
the kingdoms!
In a land not so far away and not that long ago, Hlohlesakhe and
his family lived happily, until a terrible drought came to the
land. People went hungry and starved until they got so thin you
could count the ribs of a grown man through his clothes. One day,
while he was desperately looking for something to take home to feed
his family, Hlohlesakhe wandered deep into the forest in search of
roots and berries ...
Over the summer in New York City, seven friars who work with the
homeless find a runaway girl named Nora, while Bear Denniston
searches for his missing girlfriend, Blanche, in a suspenseful
retelling of the Snow White story.
Join the pirate crew in their final spectacular adventure
Jolly, Griffin, and their pirate friends are back, battling to
save the world from the evil Maelstrom. Griffin leaves his magic
room in the belly of a giant whale to take on the lord of the
kobalins. Princess Soledad fights to protect the sea star city and
encounters an awe-inspiring serpent god. Together, Jolly and Munk
make their way underwater to reach the center of the Maelstrom.
There they meet the beautiful Aina, who is a polliwog like
themselves but from an ancient time. Is she a girl or a ghost? A
friend or an enemy?
While the battle for the sea star city is raging, Jolly learns the
shocking truth about Aina. As Jolly begins to understand the past,
she realizes what she must do to save the whole Caribbean. But is
she already too late? This rip-roaring fantasy filled with nonstop
action is a perfect ending to magical mastermind Kai Meyer's
swashbuckling Wave Walkers trilogy.
An epic introduction to Norse mythology for students of all ages.
Based on the research of the 19th century Swedish poet and scholar,
Viktor Rydberg, Our Fathers' Godsaga retells the mythology of
Northern Europe in chronological order from Creation to Ragnaro k.
These are tales told by Vikings, epic tales of gods and giants,
elves and dwarves, and of how their interaction and wars affect the
first generations of human beings in the North. Based on a
comprehensive examination of the source material, including the
Icelandic Eddas and Sagas, this is likely the way Germanic
mythology looked at the end of the heathen era. Many will recognize
themes found here in J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion, particularly
the tale of the elf-smith Vo lund and his quest for revenge against
the Aesir, first detailed by Rydberg in his comprehensive
Investigations into Germanic Mythology, 1886. This is an original
translation of Viktor Rydberg's Fa dernas Gudasaga, his own
retelling of the complete Norse mythic epic, first published in
1887, and many times since. The text includes a complete catalog of
mythic names & the original artwork, from the 1911 German
translation, by renowned children's artist John Bauer (1882-1918).
This classic Swedish text appears in English now for the first
time."
A lovely collection of 32 fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm,
translated by L. L. Weedon. Tales are illustrated in black and
white by various illustrators including Ada Dennis, E. Stuart
Hardy, E. Nister, Arch Webb, G. H. Thompson and others. Pook Press
celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's
literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly
those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish
these classic works in high quality editions, using the original
text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of
children.
One of the world's greatest fairy tales is re-told in a
graphic-novel format. In a far-away kingdom, there lives an Emperor
who prizes fancy clothes above all else. He buys suit after suit
made of the most expensive materials instead of tending to his
threadbare kingdom. Then, one day, two travelling merchants offer
to make the Emperor a special suit that has magical powers. The
merchants, however, are not who they claim to be, and the suit has
one major flaw, no one can see it!
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