White Jenna
10 best books like White Jenna (Jane Yolen): Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Mr. Tod
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians
| Author | Lin Carter |
| ISBN | 0440126274 |
A re- read
Originally read in the late 1970's.
Contents:
011 - Introduction - "Of Warriors and Wizards" - Lin Carter
017 - "The Bagful of Dreams" - Cudgel the Clever by Jack Vance
059 - "The Tupilak" - The Merfolk by Poul Anderson
101 - " Storm in a Bottle" - Brak the...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247722 |
The Tailor of Gloucester was first published in 1903 and tells the story of a poor tailor trying to survive in his freezing workshop over a hard winter. He has a terribly important commission to complete for the Mayor of Gloucester's wedding on Christmas Day but is ill and tired, and before long is running...
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247714 |
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.
Beatrix Potter's famous tale of a naughty squirrel who loses his tail is as popular today as it was when it was first published over 100 years ago. Join Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry and all his cousins as they make their...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247870 |
Ginger and Pickles (a terrier and a ginger cat) kept a very popular shop. Their customers loved to buy their provisions there, but they were less keen to pay for them and ran up a gret deal of credit, making poor Ginger and Pickles lives very difficult indeed.
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles is number...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247781 |
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.
Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247749 |
To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide.
The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern...
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247765 |
For my entire life, I have been reading Beatrix Potter's works and I had enjoyed most of the ones I had read! Now, I had picked up an old classic from my childhood, “The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.” In this tale, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, a distinguished frog, begins having the adventure of a lifetime when he...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247811 |
My kid's grandma bought us a 12 book set of the original Beatrix Potter books. I'll be reviewing them at random and out of order.
Okay, I'm not sure if this one is actually a good book for kids, but it might be my favorite of the 12 we have.
There's a crappy little world of squirrels who misunderstand...
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247803 |
My traditional start of the reading year with a Beatrix Potter tale.
The tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, obsessed with keeping her house clean while visitors disturb her tidy house 'and without any invitation' according Mrs. Tittlemouse, such as the rather intruding toad Mr. Jackson, in search of honey......
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247838 |
The Tale of Mr Tod brings back Beatrix Potter's most popular heroes, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, in an adventure that also features two very disagreeable villains. Fortunately Tommy Brock the badger and Mr. Tod the fox dislike each other so much that they Tommy Brock kidnaps Benjamin's young family,...
The Tale of Pigling Bland
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247846 |
The Tale of Pigling Bland was published the year the Beatrix Potter was married and settled down to farming life for good. She had already been keeping pigs and she sketched them for this story, using her own farmyard as the setting. One little black pig was a household pet and features as the "perfectly...
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
Do you ever feel that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence? Well, so did Johnny Town-Mouse and Timmy Willie. One was a town mouse and one was a country mouse, and when they end up in each other's worlds they soon discover that they were much happier where they started!
The Tale...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247897 |
This, along with The Tale of Miss Moppet, was intended for very young children. It is a simple tale of what befalls a rude little rabbit that doesn't say'please' before he takes something that belongs to someone else.
The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit is number 20 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247854 |
The first farm that Beatrix Potter owned, Hill Top, was an old house with thick walls and many hiding places for rats and mice. In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers this farmhouse is Tom Kitten's home and the story tells what happens when Tom accidently comes upon the rat Samuel Whiskers living in a secret hideout...
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit
We've had The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter sitting around the house since the no longer small child was tiny and enchanted with such stories, rather than Harry Potter. I'd never read these as a kid, so I sat down and read a few every night.
The charm of these works is what all other kids books...
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunny's burrow, the family all have to go in search of food. They soon find some old lettuces on Mr McGregor's rubbish heap, but who can imagine the horrors that await them as they enjoy a nap after lunch!
Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are two of Beatrix Potter's...
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247900 |
To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing...
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723234760 |
To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their guide. The aim of these editions is to be as close as possible to Beatrix Potter's intentions while benefiting from modern printing...
