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Publisher | : Henry Holt & Company |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1986-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780871314970 |
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A retelling of fifty-five myths and legends from many countries including the stories of Jason, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and Chanticleer.
Author | : Meredith Ann Pierce |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2003-06-23 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142500538 |
Download Birth of the Firebringer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Volume One of the Firebringer Trilogy Jan, the prince of the unicorns, is high-spirited, reckless-and the despair of his mighty father, Korr. Reluctantly, Korr allows Jan to accompany the other initiate warriors on a pilgrimage. Soon Jan's curiosity leads him, along with his friend Dagg, and their mentor, the female warrior Tek, into the greatest dangers-deadly gryphons, sly pans, wyverns, pards, and renegade unicorns. Yet time after time they are rescued, leading Jan to wonder: Am I the heir to a special destiny? "The language is poetic, with wonderful rhythm and sweeping images...The world is a compelling one, and Jan is a dramatic hero."—Booklist
Author | : Louis Untermeyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1968-10-01 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9780871310477 |
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Author | : Meredith Ann Pierce |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-06-23 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 110114260X |
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Volume Two of the Firebringer Trilogy “Carefully plotted, with satisfying action and fully developed, intriguing characters, this is sure to please fantasy lovers.”—Booklist He was the youngest prince the unicorns had ever known: Aljan son-of-Korr, Dark Moon. A silver crescent on his brow and a white star on his heel were tokens that one day he was destined to become the legendary Firebringer—but Jan had no knowledge of fire, nor of where to find it. Swept out to sea while defending the unicorns, Jan is washed up on a distant shore, only to find himself the revered captive of a strange race of two-foots who treat him with awe, even as they hold him against his will. It is here that he witnesses the magic of fire for the first time and, even more importantly, discovers how he himself can create it. But can he escape and bring the knowledge back to the unicorns in time to same them?
Author | : Martha Hamilton |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780874835625 |
Download How & why Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Did you ever look carefully at a spider's web? If their purpose is strictly to catch flies, why do spiders weave such beautiful, intricate webs? Did you ever wonder what causes thunder? Why is the sea salty? How did tigers get their stripes? In this collection of delightful tales from around the world and through the ages, each story explains why an animal, plant, or natural object looks or acts the way it does.
Author | : Jim Trelease |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140146539 |
Download Hey! Listen to This Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"A splendidly thoughtful selection...Trelease welcomes everyone in with wide embrace."—Washington Post Book World. 48 read-aloud selections ideal for parents and teachers to share with children ages five through nine.
Author | : Jan M. Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783745371 |
Download The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
Author | : Sheila Murnaghan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2018-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0191091952 |
Download Childhood and the Classics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity. Rather than discussing the role of classics in education, it focuses on books read for enjoyment, and on two genres of children's literature in particular: the myth collection and the historical novel. The tradition of myths retold as children's stories is traced in the work of writers and illustrators from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Kingsley to Roger Lancelyn Green and Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, while the discussion of historical fiction focuses particularly on the roles of nationality and gender in the construction of an ancient world for modern children. The book concludes with an investigation of the connections between childhood and antiquity made by writers for adults, including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. Recognition of the fundamental role in children's literature of adults' ideas about what children want or need is balanced throughout by attention to the ways in which child readers have made such works their own. The formative experiences of antiquity discussed throughout help to explain why despite growing uncertainty about the appeal of antiquity to modern children, the classical past remains perennially interesting and inspiring.
Author | : Meredith Ann Pierce |
Publisher | : Firebird |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-06-23 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780142500743 |
Download The Son of Summer Stars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Final Volume of the Firebringer Trilogy A secret haunts Jan's dying father, Korr—a secret so dark that, if exposed, could bring the downfall of the Firebringer. Jan is left with its terrible burden, and an impossible choice—renounce Tek, his beloved mate, and lose forever the kingship of the unicorns, or return and face the consequences of his father's acts, and of his own. "A first-rate ending for a fine fantasy series."—Booklist
Author | : Josephine Angelini |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250079381 |
Download Firewalker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
I'm a Witch and Witches burn. Lily is back in her own universe, and she's ready to relax with Rowan. True, she almost died in the Pyre that fueled their escape, and must hide her magic for the safety of the world, but compared to fighting the monstrous Woven and leading armies in the alternate Salem, life is looking good. You think I'm a monster, but my choices, as ruthless as they seem, are justified. Unfortunately, Lillian, ruthless ruler of the 13 Cities, is not willing to let Lily go that easily. If she can't persuade Lily to return to her world, she'll have to find a way to make her come back. Picking up right where Trial By Fire left off, Firewalker is another sexy, fast-paced, heartbreaking thrill ride from internationally bestselling author Josephine Angelini!