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Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Cinderella (1950): Mice Jacques and Gus-Gus help Cinderella get ready for the ball, but when her wicked stepmother and stepsisters ruin her dress, it's up to her fairy godmother to put a little "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" into it so she can meet her Prince Charming
Cinderella (2015): Remembering the spirit of her mother, Ella is determined to rise above the limitations placed on her after her father's death. A non-musical adaptation of the Disney original...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers--including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence...
Author
Publisher
Whitecap Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Katherine Govier "discovered that the oldest rhymes were not intended for children, but repeated by adults, who were for the most part powerless to change their situations. They would use rhymes speak in code, marking events, making fun of the powerful and passing judgement. In Half for You and Half for Me, the author breaks the codes of these nursery rhymes in accessible, amusing explanations. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pictures as well...
Publisher
Indian Head Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Over forty cultures are represented by sixty-four selected myths and tales.
The best of the American Indian myths are works of art, blending form and content into an organic whole in which the great themes of human experience are interwoven much as they are in a memorable short story or novella. But if the underlying themes are similar, the metaphorical and narrative conventions are vastly different; and it is this aesthetic gap that critic John...
250) Fables of Æsop
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
"This book combines the 1692 translation of the Fables by English journalist Sir Roger L'Estrange with 50 drawings created especially as illustration for the tales by American sculptor, painter, and illustrator Alexander Calder. ... Two hundred and one of the traditional fables are narrated here"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Cottage Door Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Discover faraway lands and magical kingdoms, flee from thundering giants and cunning beasts, and fall in love with brave animals and beautiful princesses... There is always time to read together with this treasure trove of over 50 five-minute fairy tales, fables, and classic stories.--
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