Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General

Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

When Ambrosia gives her Uncle Nacho a new hat, he tries to get rid of his old one, but to no avail. No matter what he does, the pesky hat keeps coming back to him. This classic folktale from the Puppet Workshop of Nicaraguan National Television, vividly illustrated by Mira Reisberg and presented in a bilingual edition, is a parable about the difficulties of making changes and shaking off old habits. The book includes an account of the origins of the story.

This charming and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life six traditional Irish Leprechaun tales. The stories tell of mischievious leprechauns and inquisitive people, of cobblers, pots of gold and fairy rings. It is popular with young and old alike. Other books by Yvonne Carroll

Beginner's Irish Dictionary

Great Irish Legends for Children

Irish Legends for Children

Irish Legends for Children - Mini

The Little Leprechaun Library

The Very Little Leprechaun Tale

Long ago, in Dutch Fairy Land, there lived a family of mere or lake folks dwelling not far from the sea. Their home was a great pool of water, half salt and half fresh -- for it lay around an island near the mouth of a river.

Swimming out in the salt water, the mermaids would go in quest of pearls, coral, ambergris and other pretty things. These they would bring to their queen, or with them richly adorn themselves. Thus the Mermaid Queen and her maidens made a court of beauty -- famed wherever mermaids and merrymen lived. And they often talked of human maids.

"How funny it must be to...

. . . until the Emperor was listening with mouth agape "I see you have traveled widely, know a great deal, and are cunning and experienced," said the Emperor. "I will gladly give you my daughter in marriage." The braggart now regretted having told so many lies -- for what would happen if the Emperor learned he was not, indeed, the Pea Emperor he made himself out to be? "The Pea Emperor" and seventeen other folktales capture the charm of a Roumania of long ago, and that perhaps never was -- full of dreams and magic.