You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Atalanta, abandoned at birth by her father, becomes the world's fastest runner, but Melanion is able to beat her with the help of golden apples.
A little girl imagines what it would be like if she were big and her mother were little.
This volume in the Anna, Paul & Tommycat series offers a lively and colourful adventure for beginning readers. This time Tommycat has really gone away--it's the middle of winter and he's floating down the river on a block of ice. How will Anna and Paul get him back? This series presents well-illustrated and entertaining reading activities for young children.
Explore the lives of 83 of the most talented children's authors writing today. Told in the authors' own words, these lively biographies describe the creative process, and offer advice to today's young writers. Learn how they crate wonderful books, where they get their ideas, what their desks look like, and what their favourite books were when they were growing up.
This volume in the Anna, Paul & Tommycat series offers a lively and colourful adventure for beginning readers. Tommycat has been gone a long, long time. But one day Anna and Paul get a letter written in cat-language--sent from the moon! This series presents well-illustrated and entertaining reading activities for young children.
This volume in the Anna, Paul & Tommycat series offers a lively and colourful adventure for beginning readers. Tommycat has gone missing! Anna and Paul hire Mr. Sharpeye, the world-famous detective to find him. Can you help them? This series presents well-illustrated and entertaining reading activities for young children.
This volume in the Anna, Paul & Tommycat series offers a lively and colourful adventure for beginning readers. Anna and Paul thought Tommycat had gone away forever. But now he's come back from the moon in a magic bubble--and he's brought a very special guest with him! This series presents well-illustrated and entertaining reading activities for young children.
Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation. In the last thirty years, however, revision has become an art form of its own, with tales intentionally revised to achieve humorous effect, send political messages, add different cultural or regional elements, try out new narrative voices, and more. These revisions take all forms, from short stories to novel-length narratives to poems, plays, musicals, films and advertisements. The resulting tales paint the tales from myriad perspectives, using the broad palette of human creativity. This study examines folktale revisions from many angles, drawing on examples primarily from revisions of Western European traditional tales, such as those of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. Also discussed are new folktales that combine traditional storylines with commentary on modern life. The conclusion considers how revisionists poke fun at and struggle to understand stories that sometimes made little sense to start with.
Sandra Beckett's book explores the contemporary retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale in Western children's literature.