After being chased from the home of an upper-class young girl called Ellie, chimney-sweep Tom falls asleep and tumbles into a river. There he is transformed into a "water-baby" and his adventures truly begin. Beneath the surface, he enters a magical world full of strange and wonderful creatures, where he must prove his moral worth in order to earn what he truly desires. One of the most unusual children's books ever written, "The Water-Babies", subtitled "A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby", was originally intended as a satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The richness of Oscar Wilde 's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of "The Canterville Ghost" and "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of "The Selfish Giant", "The Happy Prince" and "The Star Child", we are treated to the extravagance and dexterity of Wilde's exceptional wit, in stories that will appeal to both adults and children. Beautifully ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Homer's great epic, "The Odyssey", is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca. Both an enchanting fairy tale and a gripping drama, "The Odyssey" is immensely influential. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition uses a ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his adventures, undergoing a series of fiendishly imaginative trials - among them being swallowed by a giant dogfish and turned into a donkey - that will lead him to self-knowledge. Along the way he will be helped by a beautiful fairy, a talking cricket and ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Ned Halley. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A baby is found by wood nymphs in the forest of Burzee. They raise him as their own and give him the name Neclaus. When he grows up, Neclaus has to leave the forest so he makes a home for himself in the laughing valley of Hohaha, where he lives amongst humans for the first time. He discovers there that many children are very poor and neglected so, to cheer them up, he whittles wooden toys as gifts. Eventually he makes presents for all the children and so the story of Santa Claus is born. Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, & ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Nicolette Jones. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Whilst out playing in the countryside, five children come across "It" - a cantankerous little sand fairy who agrees to grant them one wish every day, though its effects will only last until sunset. The possibilities seem endless to the adventurous siblings but whatever their wishes, whether it’s having piles of money, growing wings, or disposing of their annoying infant brother, their days never seem to go as planned. Indeed, the consequences of all their wishes lead the children into many thrilling and often ... |
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Illustrators: Kimberley Scott, Marta Alvarez Miguens, Daron Parton, Claudia Ranucci. ... "Big Book of Just So Stories" is a wonderful collection of four classic tales for kids aged 3+ to enjoy. Each story in this book has been simply retold and delightfully illustrated with a dedicated artwork style, full of charm and detail, to delight young children again and again. The thick pages help little hands turn each page more easily, making this a perfect first book of fairy tales. "Big Book of Just So Stories": The stories included are "How the Leopard got his Spots", "How the Camel got ... |
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Illustrators: Kate Daubney, Monika Filipina, Andy Rowland, Gavin Scott . ... "Big Book of Aesop's Fables" is a charming collection of four classic tales for kids aged 3+ to enjoy. Each story in this book has been simply retold and delightfully illustrated with a dedicated artwork style, full of charm and detail, to delight young children again and again. The thick pages help little hands turn each page more easily, making this a perfect first book of fairy tales. "Big Book of Aesop's Fables": Large pages with brightly coloured illustrations bring much-loved characters to life; Large text ... |
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Illustrator: Charlotte Cooke. ... "Princess Time: The Princess and the Pea" picture book is a beautifully illustrated, simple retelling of this classic story for children aged 3+. It's a fantastic large format picture book, with stunning illustrations by Charlotte Cooke, that brings fairytale characters to life in kids' imaginations. Children will giggle along as the princess does something most unexpected! The book: Perfect for bedtime reading with you; Beautiful, full-page artwork full of detail and charm; Fairy tale has been simply retold for capture the imagination of young readers. Features ... |
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Marco Polo – най-популярните пътеводители в Германия Джобен формат, модерно оформление, актуално съдържание. Който притежава тази марка пътеводители, знае къде отива, защото те предлагат всичко, от което имате нужда по време на път: интегрирани карти и маршрути кратки и ясни описания на обектите внимателно проучена информация от кореспондентите в страната редица практични съвети информация за страната и хората И освен това: малко известни забележителности (за ценители и любопитни) дневни и почасови маршрути какво да си купим за малко пари препоръчвани хотели, ресторанти, заведения и тяхната ценова ... |
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Perfect for fans of Erin Stead and Emily Winfield Martin, here is a charming paperback picture book about two friends who enter a fairy-tale world hoping to find an exciting story to tell. When best friends Fern, a bear, and Otto, a cat, go searching for an exciting story in the forest, they have different ideas about what that means. Fern thinks they should stop and watch a race between a tortoise and a hare, but Otto worries that a tortoise is too slow to be exciting. Fern thinks listening to the three brothers talking about how to build a house is incredibly interesting, but Otto isn't convinced. Along the way, ... |
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Compiler: Desislava Tsvetkova . Classical and contemporary Bulgarian literature in English, French and German languages. ... "A dream has finally come to life! A dream of flying Bulgarian books, flying to Europe, flying to new foreign audience, flying to new homelands of many Bulgarians abroad. A dream of connecting cultures... My dream is real thanks to publisher Potayniche, who gives a hand to new authors, new ideas, new visions, who works with many Bulgarians living in foreign countries, to spread over new horizons their authentic way of writing." Dessy Tsvetkova Anthology of classical and ... |