The Winter Child
10 best books like The Winter Child (Wendy Froud): The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, War for the Oaks, Wildwood, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Habibi, The Marvelous Land of Oz, The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, A Glastonbury Romance, Swedish Folk Tales, The Ice Dragon
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
| Author | Sam Kean |
| ISBN | 0316051640 |
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?
The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific...
| Author | Emma Bull |
| ISBN | 0765349159 |
Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.
Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But she's breaking up with her boyfriend, her band just...
Prue McKeel's life is ordinary. At least until her brother is abducted by a murder of crows and taken to the Impassable Wilderness, a dense, tangled forest on the edge of Portland. No one's ever gone in, or at least returned to tell of it. So begins an adventure that will take Prue and her friend, Curtis,...
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0062409166 |
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations...
| Author | Craig Thompson |
| ISBN | 0375424148 |
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets , a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance,...
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 0140350411 |
Few fantasy lands have captured our hearts and imaginations as has the marvelous land of Oz. For over four generations, children and adults alike have reveled in the magical adventures of its beloved folk. Now, for the first time in over seventy years, the second book about Oz is presented here in the...
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
| Author | Katherine Howe |
| ISBN | 1250304865 |
New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse
Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft....
First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it he interweaves the ancient with the modern as he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury and the effect upon its inhabitants...
| Author | John Bauer |
| ISBN | 0863154573 |
John Bauer's original, evocative illustrations bring these classic Swedish folk tales to life. This collection includes Elsa Beskow's "When Mother Troll Took in the King's Washing"; "The Magician's Cape" by Anna Wahlenberg; "The Seven Wishes" by Alfred Smedberg; "The Ring" by Helena Nyblom; "Stalo...
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 0765316315 |
The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.
Adara could not...
| Author | Amy Brown |
| ISBN | 0974461229 |
The Art of Amy Brown is the first collection of Amy Brown's wildly popular art. It was published by Chimera Publishing in 2003. The book is 157 pages of art, with a commentary by Amy Brown for every piece of artwork. The Art of Amy Brown has an introduction by the well-known author Charles de Lint. There are...
The Faerie Handbook: An Enchanting Compendium of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects
In this exquisite anthology, Editor in Chief Carolyn Turgeon and the editors of Faerie Magazine welcome you into an enchanted realm rich with myth, mystery, romance, and abundant natural beauty. Organized into four sections—Flora and Fauna, Fashion and Beauty, Arts and Culture, and Home,...
Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody
| Author | Michael Rex |
| ISBN | 0399245340 |
Goodnight monsters everywhere, in this parody romp with its own special twist! "Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon."
It's bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws, and a skull and a shoe and a pot full of goo....
"Eventyrbogen" indeholder 25 af de allerbedste, klassiske eventyr.
Her er både de meget kendte som "Snehvide", "Hans og Grete" og "De tre Bukke Bruse" samt de lidt mindre kendte som "Prinsessen på glasbjerget", "Drengen, der ville lære frygten at kende" og "Soria Moria slot".
Alle...
| Author | Nicola Edwards |
| ISBN | 1680105485 |
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John Bauers förtrollade sagovärld
| Author | John Bauer |
| ISBN | 9163863332 |
Jag älskar John Bauers bilder, och vissa av sagorna är helt fantastiska. Till mina favoriter hör Sagan om de fyra stortrollen och lille Vill-Vallareman, Ringen, och Pojken, trollen och äventyret (den sistnämna har jag älskat sedan jag var barn).
Några andra av dem är tyvärr ganska...
This stunning gift book, with hand-cut paper art and lyrical text by an award-winning poet, leads you deep into the forest . . . and out again into the light.
Listen: the forest is calling. Take a quiet walk through the woods, where shadows fall in the darkness, eyes peek out, and some animals...
| Author | Sterling Children's |
| ISBN | 1454914653 |
These rascal puppies don't care if day is done and the hour has come to sleep: they want to play! So they ask for water and tissues, and beg to check for monsters under the bed. But before too long these tired puppies realize that bedtime is the best time. .
