Old Peter's Russian Tales
10 best books like Old Peter's Russian Tales (Arthur Ransome): Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave, The Novelty Maker, New Treasure Seekers, A Wolf at the Door: And Other Retold Fairy Tales, Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, Old French Fairy Tales, Once Upon a Crime, How the Whale Became and Other Stories
| Author | Roger Lancelyn Green |
| ISBN | 0140367381 |
From the page preceding the title page;
“The myths of the Northmen, from the ice and snow of the Scandinavian countries, tell how in the beginning there was only the Yawning Void, which they called Ginnungagap, but deep in the Void lay the Well of Life. In course of time ice...
| Author | Marianna Mayer |
| ISBN | 0688085008 |
The Novelty Maker
| Author | Sasha L. Miller |
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367667 |
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0689821395 |
1. This is optional. Go find a copy of A Wolf at the Door.
2. Read "Cinder Elephant" by Jane Yolen. Still opitional.
3. This is not optional. Stand up and do a happy dance while chanting -Jane Yolen Rocks! Jane Yolen Rocks! or Jane Yolen is Golden.
The...
| Author | Robert Chandler |
| ISBN | 0140448462 |
| Author | Lafcadio Hearn |
| ISBN | 0486403483 |
Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai...
| Author | Comtesse de Ségur |
| ISBN | 1410105695 |
| Author | Ed Gorman |
| ISBN | 0425171280 |
The stories range from funny to touching. Now of them all really sad. Standouts include-
"After...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571202004 |
This volume of Ted Hughes’s ‘creation’ stories was first published in 1963, and has now been published in paperback with a bright modern cover.
There are eleven stories averaging eight pages each and each story tells of how and why a particular animal behaves as it does.
The...
| Author | Susan Cooper |
| ISBN | 0689713274 |
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1605061999 |
| Author | Padraic Colum |
| ISBN | 0486297225 |
| Author | A.A. Milne |
| ISBN | 0307706109 |
POOH GOES VISITING" and other stories"
Story 1 In which we are introduced
Story 2 In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place
Story 3 In which Pooh and Piglet go hunting and nearly catch a Woozle
Story 4 In which Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh finds one
Story...
| Author | Otto Penzler |
| ISBN | 0307473899 |
Vampires! Whether imagined...
| Author | Alexander Afanasyev |
Ivan Bilibin's works are bloody gorgeous, and this little tale is illustrated with his minutely detailed and moody images, with a heavy Ukiyo-e influence blended seamlessly with the complex patterns of Slavic folk art.
Actual story:
While beginning with the usual...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
| Author | Vera Southgate |
| ISBN | 0721402224 |
الجبل الذهبي: حكايات شعبية من روسيا
| Author | Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal |
سلسلة ممتعة و مهمة
إلي روسيا هذه المرة
أكثرهم إمتاعا حتي الآن، قصص جميلة و مسلية
*هامش:
سلسلة ثقافة الشعوب تحوي قصصا شعبية من حضارات...
Carola Storms the Chalet School
| Author | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer |
| ISBN | 0006902324 |
Viking's Dawn
| Author | Henry Treece |
| ISBN | 0875991173 |