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Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles,...
In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never se...
Illustrated by John D. Batten.
Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society.
The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both ...
Regarded as the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe is a work that goes to the heart of human existence. Told through the journal of Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwr...
Новая серия автора знаменитых "Котов-воителей" повествует о захватывающих приключениях трех медведей - гризли, белого и барибала, потерявших всех близких и странствующих в...
Master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a breathtaking collection of tales for younger readers that may chill or amuse, but that always embrace the unexpected:
- Humpty ...
"I bought the milk," said my father. "I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a huge silver disc hovering in...
После смерти родителей двенадцатилетний Сэмюэль Блинк и его младшая сестра Марта переезжают в Норвегию к единственной родственнице, тете Иде. Теперь им предстоит жить со с...
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan...
Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways wi...
In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions... In a distillation of all that is eternal about boyho...
If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might hav...
Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for both children and adults and is the first author to have won the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work - The Gra...
In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene - a family is stabbed to death by "a man named ...
Barney Willow's life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him - Barney has no idea why. And headteach...