The Land of the Blue Flower
10 best books like The Land of the Blue Flower (Frances Hodgson Burnett): American Fairy Tales, Flower Fables, The Color of Bones, Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, Fairy Tales from the German Forests, The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches, How to Slay a Dragon, Elliot and the Goblin War, The Minstrel's Tale
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 0486236439 |
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1930142021 |
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables contains wildly imaginative stories that grew out of Alcott's experience as a storyteller to the children of her Concord, Connecticut, neighbors. Through these enticing encounters with fairies, elves, and animals, the author creates a foundation...
| Author | Tracy Edward Wymer |
| ISBN | 1468191985 |
Twelve year-old Derby Shrewd lives in a divided town. Lights live on the Northside of the Line, Darks live on the Southside. Hillside has been that way ever since the Line appeared naturally from the ground, much like a spring welling up from deep inside the earth.
Now the Line controls the town,...
| Author | Douglas Anthony Cooper |
| ISBN | 0385660804 |
No one except Milrose Munce knows that ghosts of former students live in his school. Not only is Milrose aware of these ghouls – he’s on a first-name basis with all of them. Of course, some are more likeable than others: the third floor is the home to nearly all of his good friends. Most of them – like...
Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre
Author
Louey Chisholm
Illustrator
Catherine Cameron
Category
Traditional and ICDL
Copyright Date
1910
Estimate of age level of interest
Adult
Estimate...
[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...
| Author | Robert Stanek |
| ISBN | 1575450593 |
Ruin Mist was featured in Publisher's Weekly Cover Story. Also recommended by the YA Librarians at VOYA Magazine, Foreword Magazine and in The Complete Idiots Guide to Elves and Fairies, Ancient Art of Faery Magick, Popular Series Fiction for Middle School and Teen Readers: A Reading and Selection...
| Author | Bill Allen |
| ISBN | 1611940060 |
Ruuan is a very large dragon. Twelve-year-old Greg Hart can't slay a dragon. He'd be lucky to win a fight against one of the smaller girls at school.
Now the magicians of Myrth have mistaken him for a legendary warrior, so they've yanked Greg into their world of sorcery and danger. Nothing will stop...
| Author | Jennifer A. Nielsen |
| ISBN | 1402240198 |
WARNING!As of today, there are only 7 CHILDREN who have ever read this book and lived to tell about it. 95 CHILDREN successfully read the first chapter, but upon beginning chapter 2, they started BLABBERING in some language known only as "flibberish." 38 CHILDREN made it halfway through this wretched...
| Author | Anna Questerly |
| ISBN | 0982996705 |
Family entertainment. Suitable for all ages. Fourteenth Century France
Amos Questerly, a wandering minstrel takes on a mysterious young apprentice. But his new protege, Richard, carries a deadly secret. A secret someone is willing to kill for.
To reach safety they must earn their...
| Author | Ellen Booraem |
| ISBN | 0152063684 |
Medford lives on a neat, orderly island called—simply—Island.
Islanders like names that say exactly what a thing (or a person) is or does. Nothing less.
Islanders like things (and people) to do what their names say they will. Nothing more.
In fact, everything...
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, although I can't say that I was truly overwhelmed by it. It was a pleasant story, and each of the nieces had distinct personalities that showed once again that Baum (who used the pen-name Edith Van Dyne) really felt that girls/women had as much logic, practicality,...
| Author | Richard Chase |
| ISBN | 0618346929 |
Note, Dec. 15, 2017: I edited this review just now to correct a minor typo.
As kids, most Americans are exposed, at one time or another, to a retelling of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Some Americans are vaguely aware that this is a very old story, going back several centuries at least. But...
Rose Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. (This volume is made up of selections from the Grey, Brown, Pink, Lilac and Orange Fairy Books, the stories therefrom that came from France, Italy or Spain.) Bear Bobino Castle of Kerglas Donkey Skin False Prince and the True Father Grumbler Fortunate and his Purse Frog...
Japanese Fairy World - Stories From The Wonder-Lore Of Japan
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
| Author | Samuel Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0984764984 |
THREE LAWS OF LIGHTHAVENS
Law One
Do not leave a Lighthaven without permission. There are dangerous plants that could kill or infect you. A Quakeroot can annihilate an entire convoy. Stormblossoms create whirlpools and catch their prey in underwater roots.
Law Two
Stay...
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Sophia "Soap" Lazarcheck is a girl genius with a knack for making robots-and for making robots explode. After her talents earn her admission into a secretive university institute, she is swiftly drawn into a conspiracy more than a century...
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| ISBN | 0689876807 |
They can rule the half-pipe, but can they survive this?
Jimmy, David, and Henry are psyched. It's summer, school's out, and they are on their way to California, where they will be able to do some major skating. But on the plane, the unthinkable happens: They are hijacked by terrorists. As frightened...
Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace
| Author | Eric Wight |
| ISBN | 1416989722 |
There is a life lull at the moment, as there always seems to be at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, wherein I have a hard time engaging with people, and books sing to me of their paper comforts. I let myself be led to a cozy bed (whenever I can) or a comfy chair wrapped in a blankie, and I read, read,...
Vinegar Boy: Encounter Christ Through the Dramatic Story of Vinegar Boy
| Author | Alberta Hawse |
| ISBN | 0802465889 |
Abandoned by his parents and shunned from society, Vinegar Boy is certain he'll be adoped once Jesus removes the ugly birthmark that scars his cheek. But when he carries the drugged vinegar wine to a crucifixion, he finds himself face to face with the only One who can heal his face. Is there still time...
Once in a very long while, betwixt and between the humdrum of everydayness, something magical happens: life gives us a fairy tale. Sometimes it begins with a door; sometimes by following a peculiar cottontail down his hole. For Phinnegan Qwyk, it begins with a chilly November night, two wet footprints...
Mourning Becomes Cassandra
| Author | Christina Dudley |
| ISBN | 0615289770 |
One wary young widow pairs up with one bent-on-disaster teenager... Whose brilliant idea was this? You think you've got issues. Meet Cass Ewan. After Plan A for her life falls to pieces, she moves in with single friends from church and reluctantly decides to mentor an at-risk adolescent. Never mind...
