| Stories for a Fragile Planet: Traditional Tales About Caring for the Earth Publication Date: May 1, 2011| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Ten sumptuously illustrated stories from different cultures highlight the importance of taking care of the world Sourced from around the world and through the ages, this is a collection of world stories that each reflect humanity's need to take care of the world that sustains them. Tales from ancient Greece, the Far East, the Celts, Africa, Greenland, Russia, China, Japan, South America, and ancient Israel afford wonderful opportunities for Jane Ray's paradisiacal paintings of trees and flowers, animals...
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| An Awesome, Amazing, Awe-inspiring Anthology Publication Date: January 30, 2002| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up The dreaded first day of school and losing your first tooth are just some of the many experiences that children go through in their early years. Part I of this book describes many of these experiences in these great short stories by Cheryl Catuncan. Julienne Bacani, on the other hand, describes different aspects of life through her three short stories. One story is about one girl's family problems, the other about the hardships of divorce, and yet another about a love between two people. These stories are mainly ...
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| "The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales (Hippo fantasy) ...
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| The Denslow Picture Book Treasury (Dover Children's Classics) Publication Date: January 14, 2011| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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| Rude Stories Release Date: October 12, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Meet Mr. Mosquito, drawn from a Gypsy story. He's cantankerous and nasty enough to raise belly laughs along with the eyebrows of the polite. In a story inspired by Australian bush tales, we meet Ella and Bella, two hilarious (and flatulent) sisters. Angelina's earthy wit is memorialized in a story from Swahili tradition.The eight stories in Rude Stories have roots from Japan to Canada, from Africa to Eastern Europe, but they all share a sense of irreverence, and, because they are the work of a true storyteller, they ...
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| El Libro De Oro De Los Ninos/Classic Children's Tales (Spanish Edition) Publication Date: September 1, 1998Est...
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| The Emperor's New Clothes Release Date: September 9, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Everyone agrees that the emperor is charming, clever, and worksvery hard . . . at shopping! Showing off his expensive clothes is all he caresabout. So one day, a pair of swindlers decides to profit from the emperor'svanity. They offer to make him a splendid suit cut from a magical cloth thatcannot be seen by anyone who is lazy or stupid. Who will be brave enough to tellthe emperor that he's really wearing nothing at all? Illustrations as zany and entertaining as the emperor himself enhance thisageless tale, "re-cut,...
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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: The POP Wonderland Series Publication Date: March 23, 2010| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
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| Cinderella's Magical Wheelchair: An Empowering Fairy Tale Publication Date: August 15, 2011Join Cinderella in a World Where Anything is Possible!In a Kingdom far, far away lives Cinderella. As expected, she slaves away for her crankysisters and step-mother. She would dearly love to attend the Royal costume ball andmeet the Prince, but her family is totally dead set against it. In fact, they have gone sofar as to trash her wheelchair! An unexpected magical endowment to her wheelchairbegins a truly enchanted evening and a dance with the Prince. Can true love be farbehind? This fairy tale demonstrates people with disabilities can overcome abuse Childr...
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| Joseph the Tailor (World Storytelling from August House) Publication Date: January 27, 2006| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up...
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| The Best Princess Stories in the World (Best Stories) Release Date: August 1, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up...
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| Princess Stories from Around the World Publication Date: October 1, 2007| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up Welcome to a collection of princess stories with a difference. There's a princess here to appeal to everyone, from the bold girl with her wits about her who rescues a bewitched prince from the fairy folk, to the mysterious daughter of the Dragon King under the Sea waiting for her long-lost love. Kate Tym's chatty, humorous style retains the richness and depth of the original stories while making the book appealing to both children and adults, and Sophy Williams's exquisite signature pastels bring the stories vivid...
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| Teller of Tales Publication Date: September 1994| Age Level: 10 and up In Brooke's third collection of newly rendered classic tales, an old man is ordered to stop reporting on the Emperor's degree of undress and, with the help of a little girl, to stick to writing fairy tales instead. When the unlikely pair embarks on a life full of stories, their everyday blends with the once-upon-a-time and they wonder: do the tales belong to the teller or the teller to the tales? ...
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| My Treasury of Stories & Rhymes Publication Date: November 16, 2012| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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| Cinder-Elly Release Date: April 1, 1994| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Full-color artwork by the illustrator of Into This Night We Are Rising captures the hipness and movement of New York City for a rhyming, urban version of the Cinderella fairy tale. ...
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| The Illustrated Bible Story Book -- Old Testament: Includes a Read-and-Listen CD (Dover Read and Listen) Publication Date: September 19, 2008| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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| Little Eight John Release Date: September 8, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up Despite his mother's warning that kicking at the toad frogs will bring him bad luck, Little Eight John does so anyway and then is shocked when trouble comes looking for him, in a lively folktale from rural North Carolina. ...
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| Wise and Not So Wise: Ten Tales from the Rabbis Publication Date: June 1, 2009| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Talmudic and midrashic folklore use the teachings of the ancient sages to answer questions and teach moral lessons, often with a dash of humor. In this delightful collection, Phillis Gershator takes spiritual and folkloric elements and weaves them together with her unique humor to create a special version of the wondrous tales that have captivated readers for centuries. Stories of flying rabbis, miraculous loaves of bread, wise women, muscle-bound angels, and goats that carry bears on their heads will enchant childre...
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| El Principito (Coleccion Clasicos Juveniles (Lumen)) (Spanish Edition) ...
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| Dandelion Delilah : The Tale of the Dandelion Fairies Publication Date: March 2002Two sisters, Madeline and Kate, find themselves swept away by the dandelion puffs in their yard and in their imaginations.The girls begin with their daily summertime play, which develops into an imaginary experience.Then the girls convince their mother that something extraordinary is awaiting them in the woods.They all find that the only limitations to believing are their imaginations. ...
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