Fairy Tales & Folklore

A collection of political tales-first published in British workers' magazines-selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780736430135Author Jennifer Liberts WeinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142301890Author Philomen SturgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint PuffinPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 256mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780736440974Author RH DisneyPage Count 96Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 149mm * 117mm * 60mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899557183Author Mayumi OteroFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Little GestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Discover an ancient Indian culture in this traditional tale of magic, love and a very special quest. When a small white mouse is turned into a daughter for a couple...

The King of Ireland's Son sets out to find the Enchanter of the Black Back-Lands and meets the Enchanter's daughter, Fedelma. His adventures lead him to the Land of the Mist, the Town of the Red Castle, and the worlds of Gilly of the Goatskin, the Hags...

A deluxe addition to the Flower Fairies classics, complete with all of Cicely Mary Barker?s original poems and illustrations. She re-creates the beauty of nature through her art and drawings from life with botanical accuracy and exquisite watercolors...

Pick up your sword and follow the mighty Jack and his friends from start to finish! From magic bean creatures in his backyard to recuse missions into unknown worlds with children-eating goblins, and teaming up with intergalactic heros-it's all here in...

Travel to the snowy forests of Finland to meet the animals of the north in this charming and beautifully illustrated collection of traditional animal tales. Classic characters of Nordic folklore -- cunning Fox, gullible Wolf and great Bear -- star in...

One day the Little Fairy's friend Mole shares a secret with her: he wishes that just once he could fly through the air, instead of always burrowing underground.Faith, the Little Fairy, wants to help her friend and she knows that sometimes a fairy can...

This is a beautiful billingual English-Polish edition of Sleeping Beauty.An accessible introduction to modern languages, these billingual readers Introduce the best loved fairy tales with parallel text in English and Polish. Stories are told in...

This beautiful collection of thirteen classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales includes Cinderella; Rumpelstiltskin; Puss in Boots; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Rapunzel; The Town Musicians of Bremen; Little Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; Sleeping...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a classic collection of chillingly scary tales, in which Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time, complemented in this paperback edition by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368092487Author Disney BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Disney PressPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Meditation and visualisation, if approached in an inventive and appealing manner, bring enormous benefits to children. It can calm their anxieties, build their self-esteem, unlock their imagination, and teach them quietness and thoughtfulness. This...

Further delightful trickster tales from IndiaPrince Veera and his best friend, Suku, are left in charge of King Beema's court when the king goes off on a hunting trip. Each day the king's subjects come before the boys with their problems and petty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316383349Author Chris ColferFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersPublisher Little, Brown Books for Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911496144Author Anna CastagnoliFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Book Island LimitedPublisher Book Island LimitedWeight(grams) 760g

When an acorn drops on the head of Chicken Licken, he is sure the sky is falling! He sets off to the palace to tell the king.This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills,...

Award-winning team Mahlon and Kinuko Craft bring us a gorgeous and vivid retelling of the classic story of Beauty and the Beast in this stunningly illustrated picture book. The tale is as old as time: A man steals a rose from the garden of a beast. His...

Travel across the world with this beautiful collection of 20 nature stories. From the Ancient Chinese countryside to the dense forests of Norway, this book takes readers on a journey across cultures and continents, exploring the different ways we care...

A beautiful edition of Quentin Blake's Magical Tales, the wonderfully illustrated collection of more than a dozen tales of magical fun and mystery from all over the globe. A wonderful collection of more than a dozen little-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937133535Author Anson MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Choose Your Own AdventurePublisher Choose Your Own AdventureWeight(grams)...

A story of cunning, courage and survival, in which a girl sets out to save her father from the giant who turns people to stone When her father leaves to fight the giant, the child in the red dress is left alone. Many days and many nights go by. Every...

Aesop's fable of kindness and friendship retold with simple text to help beginner readers develop reading stamina. It's a hard life being a slave in Ancient Rome. So Androcles escapes to the forest - and comes face to face with a lion. But could the...

This is the real and totally true tale of Chicken Little. When something falls from the sky and bops Chicken Little right on the head, he looks high and low to figure out what it was. He even asks the sky if...

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Hansel and Gretel are poor, so they have to travel through the forest to find work for their father. On the way, they meet a kind old lady asking for help. But does...

There is everyday magic in the tales of London. Some stories are swirling in the waters of the Thames; some are hidden in the old stones that lie beneath our modern pavements. In London Folk Tales for Children Anne and Sef have gathered stories from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368009027Author Serena ValentinoFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Disney PressPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517885581Author Ann TompertFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

A stand-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French, with pictures by Marta Kissi, a talented new illustrator and animator.From Vivian French, the bestselling author of the Tiara Club series and The Adventures of...

'An exciting new background read on an aspect of Romans in Britain that I have not seen covered in children's literature before.' - Veronica Price, chartered librarian and blogger Scotland, 158 AD, is a divided country. On one side of the Antonine wall,...

Laney thinks the summer's going to be boring but how wrong she is! From the moment she sees a blood-red moon, things take a turn for the magical. For Laney is a faerie, a member of the Mist Tribe, and things are about to get exciting, and mysterious, and...

When Goldilocks gets lost in the woods, she discovers a pretty house where everything comes in three sizes; big, medium and very little! Who could live here? And what will happen when they find Goldilocks sleeping in their house? This classic tale about...

The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the first story Andersen wrote without a folktale source or literary model, so it stands as a completely original work of the imagination, which changed the fairytale genre for all time. "There were once five-and-twenty tin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374317621Author Wilhelm K GrimmFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)Weight(grams)...

The Fir Tree grows in a forest far away from the bustle of the town. It is a beautiful place, but he dreams of the excitement of the outside world. His friend the Robin tells him stories of the places she has seen, and the forest animals dress him up...

This title is suitable for children aged 3 to 6. A tin soldier falls hopelessly in love with a paper ballerina in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic story. With one full page illustration per spread and skillfully retold for a young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939130013Author Osamu TezukaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.Weight(grams) 260g