Old French Fairy Tales
10 best books like Old French Fairy Tales (Comtesse de Ségur): The Happy Lion, Indian Fairy Tales, The Great Paper Caper, Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) (English and French Edition), Earth and High Heaven, 12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete Fairy Book Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories From Around The World., A Hundred Million Francs, Dorrie and the Blue Witch, The History Of Sir Charles Grandison Bart, Old Peter's Russian Tales
| Author | Louise Fatio |
| ISBN | 0375827595 |
The lion at the little French zoo is a favorite of all the townspeople. Every day they stop by to feed him tidbits and say, “Bonjour, Happy Lion.” Naturally, when the lion finds his door open, he decides it would only be proper to visit all his friendly neighbors in return. But, wait—sacré bleu!...
Stories included are:
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...
| Author | Oliver Jeffers |
| ISBN | 0007182295 |
The wonderful Oliver Jeffers, illustrator of such books as
The Day the Crayons Quit
, and author/illustrator of titles like
How to Catch a Star
, creates an entertaining picture-book mystery and ecological fable in The Great Paper Caper. As the residents of the forest notice that branches have...
Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) (English and French Edition)
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0486270920 |
I finally finished Les Fleurs du Mal, which I read during the stray hours I had each week in between classes -- reading, that is, while colleagues and co-workers spent their valuable time scheming and scamming..., I suspect.... (Sic academia transit). Just kidding, of course. They are noble creatures.......
| Author | Gwethalyn Graham |
| ISBN | 1896951619 |
Earth and High Heaven is, simply, a drama of human relationships -- of two people in love who are confronted by the obstacle of racial intolerance -- presented with such cutting truth, such fidelity to life, such compassion and understanding, that their problem becomes, indelibly, the reader's own....
12 Books in 1: Andrew Lang's Complete Fairy Book Series. The Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive, and Lilac Fairy Books. Traditional Folk Tales and Fairy Stories From Around The World.
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0954840151 |
Fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world. They were first made by adults who were childlike for their own amusement, and so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children. The stories in these books are borrowed from many countries; some are...
| Author | Paul Berna |
| ISBN | 0370009428 |
4.5 stars. A gang of French children have a favourite game. One of them owns what must be an old rocking horse or carousel horse that has been welded onto a chassis with three wheels. The horse having lost it's head does not lessen the children's enjoyment at all, they spend their days riding their horse...
| Author | Patricia Coombs |
| ISBN | 0440422108 |
What a beautiful book! Reading this book brought back wonderful memories of reading this as a child. I love the illustrations, absolutely beautiful, I really like the black, white and blue used in this one and all the details in the pictures. I'm very impressed this author/illustrator was equally as...
| Author | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN | 1846645654 |
Before going onto my review of Samuel Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison which took me a month to read, I wanted for myself to make a comment for remembering in the future what I was reading during a difficult time, as I did for my brother's death in 2016, I remember that book clearly. I had...
| Author | Arthur Ransome |
| ISBN | 1903252164 |
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
| ISBN | 1151290572 |
The author of this retold collection of Welsh fairy tales was an American of Welsh ancestry. In his introduction he pointedly gives thanks to 'those inheritances from the world of imagination, for which the Cymric Land was famous, even before the days of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman.'
Griffis...
The fifty stories that Balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the charaters that throng theComedie Humaine. Nevertheless, while they do offer an interesting counterpoint to the great novels, the stories as themselves.For this volume...
| Author | Petre Ispirescu |
| ISBN | 9735025094 |
„Un lucru uluitor al condiţiei umane este că ne-am născut fiinţe libere – putem să facem ce vrem cu viaţa noastră – cu o excepţie: nu suntem liberi în alegerea vieţii înseşi. Grozăvia este că te naşti fără să te fi întrebat cineva dacă vrei să vii pe lumea asta. Or copilul ăsta,...
| Author | Ruth Sanderson |
| ISBN | 0967290201 |
Three princes go on a quest to the Heart of the World to save their drought-ravaged kingdom.
The Enchanted Wood is an original fairytale written and illustrated by Ruth Sanderson. It was originally published in 1991 by Little, Brown and Co. and won the Irma s. Black Award and the Young Hoosier...
| Author | Wilhelm Hauff |
| ISBN | 0763603279 |
It seems so funny to me that for all that our culture loves and adores fairytales, scant attention is paid to the ones that can rightfully be called both awesome and obscure. There is a perception out there that there are only so many fairytales out there that people really need to know. But for every Cinderella...
| Author | Wallace Fowlie |
| ISBN | 0486264432 |
"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." ― Germaine Brée, New York University
Drawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the...
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 2070417247 |
Then the Chief of the Detective Force told the whole story: how Detective Mondesir, on being warned by a secret agent that the Anarchist Salvat was in a tavern at Montmartre, had reached it just as the bird had flown; then how chance had again set him in presence of Salvat at a hundred paces or so from the tavern,...
| Author | Jay Williams |
| ISBN | 0590557866 |
I bought this book in the early 1980's so that my new born daughter would have a different kind of fairy tale for me to read to her and her to read later on her own.
It's full of royal women who can think, act and rescue not just themselves, but sometimes the hapless Prince.
We also read "regular" fairy...
| Author | Frank Viva |
| ISBN | 0316129259 |
Well, this is a very creative book. Its illustrations are made up from one big illustration, which is shown on the inside front and back covers. It would be great for both beginning readers and for reading aloud.
However, neither the lackluster (lack of) story text or the pictures really appealed...
Polly Diamond and the Magic Book
| Author | Alice Kuipers |
| ISBN | 1452152322 |
Polly loves words. And she loves writing stories. So when a magic book appears on her doorstep that can make everything she writes happen in real life, Polly is certain all of her dreams are about to come true. But she soon learns that what you write and what you mean are not always the same thing! Funny and...
Angelina and the Princess
| Author | Katharine Holabird |
| ISBN | 0670060852 |
Available for the first time from Viking, Angelina and the Princess and Angelina on Stage are two beloved Angelina Ballerina stories. In Angelina and the Princess, Angelina hopes to dance the starring role, but instead is cast in a tiny part. She is so disappointed that she wants to quit ballet. Eventually,...
| Author | Trista Hendren |
| ISBN | 1622094840 |
One of the greatest harms we have inflicted upon our souls stems from our our denial of the feminine face of God. By making God into a bearded, robed patriarch (even if only in our mind’s eye), we have lost the ability to recognize what Trista Hendren beautifully and simply calls, “The Girl God.”...
