Ukrainian Folk Tales

10 best books like Ukrainian Folk Tales (Unknown): Odin's Island, Indian Fairy Tales, The Victorian Fairy Tale Book, Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Japanese Fairy Tales, My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez, Piper at the Gate, Tajemnica zielonej pieczęci, Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

Odin's Island
AuthorJanne Teller
ISBN1843543486
When a gaggle of children on a small island between two Scandinavian countries meet Odin, they do not see the hoary rider of the clouds, summoning his warriors to battle, but only a little old man with a long white beard and one bright eye. One of his two horses has hurt its leg "in a meteor storm", and, though...
AuthorJoseph Jacobs
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...
AuthorMichael Patrick Hearn
From Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahame’s Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them...
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453369
"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,
hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,
I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studio
that Diego so lovingly built for me.

I dip the brush in blood-red paint
and, embracing life with all its light,
I print on a...
AuthorIda B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN0143106821
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer

Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat....
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
ISBN0486403483
A talking tea kettle, a monstrous goblin-spider that lives in a haunted temple, miniature soldiers that plague a lazy young bride, and other fanciful creatures abound in this captivating collection of eleven Japanese fairy tales.
Youngsters are transported to an exotic, faraway world of samurai...
AuthorMonica Brown
ISBN0873589084
Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy named Gabito who could. Gabriel García Márquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He...
AuthorMary Stanton
ISBN0671698206
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
AuthorHanna Ożogowska
Stefan Żórawiec otrzymuje niespodziewane podarunki na zakończenie piątej klasy. Dyrektor szkoły wręcza mu słownik i pokaźny zeszyt z poleceniem prowadzenia pamiętnika. Pomoże to Stefanowi uniknąć popełniania błędów ortograficznych. Zapiski chłopca w pewnym momencie...
AuthorRobert Andrew Parker
ISBN0375839658
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly...
AuthorSergei Aksakov
ISBN5050016940
সাত সমুদ্দুর তেরো নদী পাড়ি দিয়ে সওদাগর যাবেন বাণিজ্যে; তিন কন্যার জন্য কী আনতে হবে, তা জানতে ওদের ডেকে...
AuthorPyotr Yershov
Osobne som nikdy o tejto rozprávke predtým nepočula, ale čo sa nájde vrámci KK je poklad, takže som si uchmatla :)
Pozdával sa mi veršovaný štýl i príbeh samotný, nebol len úsmevný ale mal aj svoje posolstvo a koník sa dobre staral o svojho Ivana. A ten i keď možno nebol z najmúdrejších...
AuthorRob Spillman
ISBN0143114735
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature

Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking...
Роксолана
AuthorPavlo Zahrebelnyi
Историята на Роксолана - (така венецианските посланици наричали всички руски хора) е като приказка от 1001 нощ - умната девойка не само успява с хитрост и...
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
ISBN5050034450
See also:
Norwegian: Aleksander Pusjkin

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style...
Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden, Vol. 12
AuthorYuu Watase
ISBN1421564343
When schoolgirl Takiko Okuda attempts to destroy her father's translation of The Universe of the Four Gods, she is instead sucked into the story, becoming the Priestess of Genbu in an epic journey to find the seven Celestial Warriors!

The time has come for Takiko to assume the powers of the priestess...
Witaj, Karolciu!
AuthorMaria Krüger
ISBN8371625561
To ciąg dalszy fantastycznych przygód pomysłowej dziewczynki, którą znamy z pierwszej części tej książki pt. "Karolcia". Tym razem Karolcia i jej kolega przeżywają zabawne przygody dzięki czarodziejskiej niebieskiej kredce. Ich mały skarb, podobnie jak niebieski koralik, posiada...
Pani na Czachticach
AuthorJožo Nižnánsky
ISBN0837132682
Elżbieta Batorówna (1560-1614) pochodziła z arystokratycznej rodziny obciążonej genetycznym obłędem - wśród jej przodków i krewnych byli schizofrenicy, zboczeńcy i sadyści. Będąc małą dziewczynką uwielbiała przyglądać się egzekucjom. Gdy dorosła jej sadyzm budził...
Redder Than Blood
AuthorTanith Lee
A vampiric Snow White whose pious stepmother is her only salvation....

A supernatural Cinderella who strikes at midnight, leaving behind a prince mad with desire....

A sleeping beauty never meant to be woken...

In her World Fantasy Award-nominated short story collection,...
Puc, Bursztyn i goście
AuthorJan Grabowski
Zwierzęcymi bohaterami opowieści są Puc i Bursztyn - dwa wiejskie pieski "rządzące" całym podwórzem, na którym żyją także kaczka Melańcia, kaczor Kasperek, kotka Imka. Psy wiodą wesołe życie pełne przygód. Poznajemy je podczas zabawy na podwórzu. Puc jest starszy, więc pilnuje...
Rogaś z Doliny Roztoki
AuthorMaria Kownacka
ISBN8372721525
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Kaczka Dziwaczka
AuthorJan Brzechwa
Jan Brzechwa, born Jan Wiktor Lesman was a Polish writer of Jewish descent. He is mostly known for his contribution to children's literature as well as for his translations of Russian literature, translating works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Sergey Yesienin and Vladimir Mayakovskiy.

His cousin...
Lokomotywa
AuthorJulian Tuwim
Któż z nas nie pamięta jednego z najpiękniejszych i najweselszych wierszy autorstwa Juliana Tuwima? "Stoi na stacji lokomotywa, Ciężka, ogromna i pot z niej spływa: Tłusta oliwa. Stoi i sapie, dyszy i dmucha, Żar z rozgrzanego je brzucha bucha: Buch - jak gorąco! Uch - jak gorąco! Puff...
O krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi
AuthorMaria Konopnicka
ISBN8372547815
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