Rewards and Fairies
10 best books like Rewards and Fairies (Rudyard Kipling): Lammas Night, The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, The Land of Green Ginger, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, The Story of the Amulet, By Balloon to the Sahara, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Fairies and Elves, Meeting the Other Crowd, The Book of Nature Myths
| Author | Katherine Kurtz |
| ISBN | 0345295161 |
What Magic Can Stop Adolf Hitler -- History's Most Evil Black Magician?
Modern War
The year is 1940. Hitler's Germany is about to employ the secret arts of evil witchcraft to destroy England. What can stop them?
Ancient Weapon
It is the mission of John Graham, colonel...
The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 0670010898 |
Neef, the official Changeling of Central Park, has survived a life-threatening quest, but that’s nothing compared to her first experiences at Changeling school. At Miss Van Loon’s, she meets her counterparts from all over Manhattan, learns the basics of diplomacy, and, of course, gets in trouble....
This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and...
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0901072370 |
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367527 |
At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic amulet - half...
| Author | Douglas Terman |
| ISBN | 0553140051 |
"If you decide to fire the torpedo and sink the ship, turn to page 46 or 47."
WHAT?! Two choices for one path? That's crazytown! Never seen such lunacy! What's going on here? Is this real life?!?!
In By Balloon to the Sahara the plan is that you, your friends Peter and Sarah, and your dog...
| Author | Mervyn Peake |
| ISBN | 0763616257 |
A delightful children's book, handwritten and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, though like all really good children's books, it can also be enjoyed by adults.
This book reflects Peake's lifelong love of pirates and islands, though it's really a simple story of friendship, fun and adventure....
| Author | Tristram Potter Coffin |
I picked this up by chance in a local market and I'm deeply thrilled that I did.
large range of Fairy legends essentially condensed into a flow of text. Seems to draw mainly from pre-existing collections.
In terms of layout and art - a really fantastic book. Pulls from the history of 19th...
| Author | Eddie Lenihan |
| ISBN | 0717136590 |
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.
In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...
| Author | Cynthia Harnett |
| ISBN | 0140301534 |
Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.
This is historical fiction rather than history, written...
| Author | Wendy Froud |
| ISBN | 0743202341 |
Carefully combing his ears and tail and wearing his finest red felt boots, a furry young faery named Sneezle prepares for the Midwinter festival in Old Oak Wood -- the oldest faery court in the British Isles. All the denizens of the wood have gathered for this grand winter holiday...but this year something...
| Author | Orion Foxwood |
| ISBN | 0979140226 |
The "Faery Teachings" re-attune us to the spirits of the land, sea, wind, flame, human ancestry and the Elder race, which we know as the Faery. This attunement occurs through the application of age-old lore, techniques, folk practices, inner contacts and wisdom of Faery Seership. The stream of mystical...
| Author | Robert Browning |
| ISBN | 1551113724 |
An absolutely amazing novel...I mean poem. Nothing short of astonishing--light years ahead of its time. I might be wrong, but I believe his wife, Elizabeth, died shortly before he wrote this. If only we all could convert our sorrow into acts of genius. His Pope is one of the great all time characters--well,...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0671697838 |
The heavy summer air of 1595 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard Earl of Bothwell has summoned a storm to sink the ship that bears James' bride to Scotland. Though the ship made port, the success of their...
| Author | Hilda Lewis |
| ISBN | 0752445642 |
While reading HF books set during the Hundred Years War, Jacqueline of Brabant was always a peripheral character that I was curious to learn more about.
I, Jacqueline, was a well researched effort by one of my favorite authors Hilda Lewis and richly deserves a 5 star rating.
Jacqueline...
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0156962640 |
In this book, Arthurian legend blends with Lewis Carroll or perhaps Edward Lear. This has all the elements of the quintessential fairy tale (magical lands, three brothers vying to see who will be first to fulfill their quest, an enchanted lady, knights, dwarfs, etc.). And yet there is something whimsical,...
Lord Chesterfield's Letters
| Author | Philip Dormer Stanhope |
Not originally intended for publication, the celebrated and controversial correspondences between Lord Chesterfield and his son Philip, dating from 1737, were praised in their day as a complete manual of education, and despised by Samuel Johnson for teaching "the morals of a whore and the manners...
| Author | Andrew M. Greeley |
| ISBN | 0446324388 |
In this novel of legendary Ireland, Andrew Greeley takes you back into a long-ago time of mists and magic, faith and love. Here you will find Cormac MacDermot, the young king destined to lead Ireland out of paganism to Christianity; his aged father, now on the throne, and the seductive witch-queen who...
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Best known for his collection of fairy tales, Andrew Lang also wrote about other subjects, including ghosts. This is not a collection of ghostly short stories. Rather, it is Andrew Lang's exploration of the "true" ghost stories and prophetic (or supposedly prophetic) dreams.
"The author...
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
| Author | Lacy Collison-Morley |
There is something highly amusing about reading old books. This is free for the Kindle, and it should be noted that there does seem to be some formatting problems.
The book is highly enjoyable, detailing both anicent ghost stories as well as ancient beliefs and rites concerning ghosts. I have...
The House of the Wolfings
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1600963927 |
This is a moving tale about the Goths fighting off a Roman invasion. There was prophecy and doomed romance and heroic acts of self sacrifice. The characterisation was a little light, but I still felt for everyone at the end. There were strong women characters who were full of wisdom and spirit who took...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 1404321020 |
Leggerezza e avventura
(o Come si impara a vivere)
(«he was certainly on the edge of an exciting mystery»... «What absurd or tragical adventure had befallen him?»...).
Il primo libro strettamente narrativo di Stevenson, pubblicato nel 1882, arriva dopo non pochi volumi di...
Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Missing Scarab
| Author | Columbkill Noonan |
| ISBN | 1546786074 |
Barnabas Tew is a private detective struggling to survive in his trade in Victorian London. Fearing that he is not as clever as he had hoped to be, he is plagued by a lack of confidence brought on in no small part by his failure to prevent the untimely deaths of several of his clients.
Matters only...
| Author | Sarah R. Shaber |
| ISBN | 0312290462 |
University of North Carolina History Professor Simon Shaw doesn't spend all of his time in the classroom or grading term papers. In fact, he has been making headlines for his role in investigating murders that occurred over the last century. Various newspapers and magazines have even dubbed him a "forensic...
