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Holly The Christmas Fairy

November 28th, 2009

About Holly The Christmas Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

In Holly The Christmas Fairy, there's trouble in Fairyland again! Jack Frost is up to his old tricks. This time, he has stolen Santa's sleigh. There were three special gifts onboard. Without them, Christmas could be ruined!

Will this holly jolly holiday be changed forever? Or can Rachel and Kirsty save the day, with a little help from Holly the Christmas Fairy?

Find the three glittering gifts in this Rainbow Magic Special Edition and help save the Christmas magic!

About the Author

Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym used by Working Partners, the creators of Rainbow Magic and other successful series like Animal Ark. Georgie Ripper is a talented young artist who has won the Macmillan prize for illustration.

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Princess And Fairy

October 30th, 2009

Bunnies abound in a Fairyland look-and-find adventure.Princess is a bunny-princess. Fairy is a bunny-fairy. And tonight is the Queen’s Grand Birthday Feast! Together, the two cutest bunnies in all of Fairyland set out to find their list of pretty things —

a blue silk purse,
stripy pink sweets,
rainbow cake, and
a four-leaf clover

—to bring to the queen.Their glittering adventure winds through:

Ladybird Bend,
Dragonfly Pool,
Three Wishes Market,
Topsy-Turvy Fairy-Go-Round,
Slippery Hill, and
Piggeldy Moss

—all depicted in lushly detailed illustrations. With lyrical text, treasure-filled art, and “Can you find” objects on every page, Anna Pignataro creates an alluring look-and-find adventure for little bunnies everywhere. Features glitter on the cover and final spread, a treasure-hunt list of objects affixed with a sticker, and an envelope with a tiny invitation—from the queen!

About the Author

Anna Pignataro has illustrated more than twenty-five books for children, four of which she also wrote. She has received a number of awards, including Australia’s Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

August 28th, 2009

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

Is this new edition necessary? Only scholars are likely to persevere through all 32 of the "previously untranslated" tales found among the 242 entries. A few, rejected by the Grimms as too French or too literary, have merit; most of the others are slight variants of tales already in the canon or are fragments.

There is no analysis or commentary of any individual tales, and though Zipes offers a fine introduction, he himself acknowledges the excellence of Ralph Manheim's translation of the canon (misspelling his name). Since Manheim's work is still in print and available at low cost in paper (Doubleday, 1977), only wealthy scholars, who will appreciate the identification of each tale's human or published source and date of first publication, might insist on Zipes. Patricia Dooley, formerly with English Dept., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Splendid."
--Faith McNulty, The New Yorker

"Clearly the text of choice for any reader...Zipes? edition deserves to become the standard translation.? "
--The German Quarterly

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Russian Fairy Tales

August 4th, 2009

Review of Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)

"A beautiful book. I recommend it to all readers, young and old, who are interested in the folktale and its unique qualities." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The New York Times Book Review

"Luckily someone garnered these jewels before they were lost, bound them into one volume before they disappeared...it is filled with action, magic, and humanity...." -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat

"The oral folk tradition in Russia was truly a magic spring. As in the fairy tale, it flowed inexhaustibly, reviving, consoling, and enlightening all who partook of it... these stories have an ingenuity that marks them as uniquely Russian." -- Review

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The Random House Book of Fairy Tales

July 26th, 2009

Most kids love fairy tales and this Random House Book of Fairy Tales is packed full of great stories. This book measures 10.9 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches and has about 224 pages. It is perfect for children ages 4-8. There are nineteen popular traditional tales selected from the works of:

the Grimm brothers,
Andersen,
Perrault and
others form the contents of this fine collection.

Ehrlich drew upon many sources, listed in back but not keyed to individual tales, and her literary but not effusive retellings remain faithful, for the most part, to the common canon. (Exceptions include:

Hansel's holding out a knuckle to the witch rather than a chicken bone;
Rapunzel's twins are missing; and
the prince's mere presence rather than a kiss wakes the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.)

The soft pastel colors of Goode's pencil and watercolor illustrations give a misty, faraway quality to Once-upon-a-time, but they are too much alike and occasionally too bland to be totally effective.

Still, it's a good companion volume to Prelutsky and Lobel's Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983) and a nicely packaged collection that will give pleasure to many a grateful child. Susan Hepler, formerly at Ohio State University, Columbus

Product Description

A lush treasury of 19 fairy tales that generations of children have grown up on, lushly illustrated by Diane Goode.

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