Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Legends, Myths, Fables - General

This is a story about a duck and mouse who get swallowed by a wolf, and then decide to live in his belly.

Early one morning a mouse met a wolf
and was quickly gobbled up.

When a woeful mouse is swallowed by a wolf, he quickly learns he is not alone: a duck has already set up digs, and, boy, has that duck got it figured out Turns out it's pretty nice in there, with delicious food and elegant table settings, courtesy of the wolf's unchecked gluttony. And there's something even better: no more fear of being eaten by a wolf In fact, life is pretty good, until a...

Handy and Grace are poor children living on the edge of the Overworld. They long to find security for their family, but their garden is failing, their chickens stopped laying eggs, and their cow stopped giving milk. After going day after day into the woods with their father, they have been unable help bring in much food other than wild onions. That is until a strange parrot appears one day in the woods. With the help of Handy's obsession with onions, they follow the parrot deeper into the woods, hoping to find food. What happens next is a strange adventure filled with witches, potions,...

Emme, as you well know, is not only responsible for the daily meals but for the celebration treats too Gorn offered to help once and filled the baking cavern full of smoke.

The Moss Patrol, lead by the biggest, bravest and most courageous Mossie of all times, is on and expedition that tops them all. I'll tell you all about it.........

Many readers think book 2, the Quest, was my best book. But most of them change there minds after reading about our trip to Belize in search of Paseeto, the Elder. I think you will like it also..............

Magical Celtic Tales is a collection of ten wonderful stories - some well known, others almost forgotten - from Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, The Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales.

This beautifully illustrated Companion Reader is an exact transcript of Jim Weiss's award-winning storytelling performance of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, available on MP3 and audio CD from Well-Trained Mind Press.

An intergalactic adventure pitting Se-laya, a young female Balangodan, (a race of beings who inhabit a star in a far-away galaxy) and the Krikalev Space-Traders, headed up by a dishonest and greedy Urka, Bijar, intent on cornering the egg market in outer space-a plan which could lead to the birds extinction. Se-laya, the protector of the migrating birds who come yearly to Balangoda to lay and hatch their eggs before flying off to the water planet, Sinhala, are missing. She leaves her home on an exciting and dangerous adventure to find, and ultimately to rescue the birds and ensure their...

In this clever twist on the age-old belief that there's no such thing as unicorns, Uni the unicorn is told there's no such thing as little girls! But Uni believes that little girls are real. Rosenthal's sweet "New York Times"-bestseller is now in a board book format. Full color.

This story was partly written in 1998 and it was not until the author was returning home from a visit to Ireland in 2000 after discovering Birr Castle that she wondered if the castle garden could be the home of the mischievous leprechaun

The seventh Earl and Countess of Rosse kindly gave their permission. There has been a castle on the site since 1170 and it has been the home of earlier generations of the present family since 1620. The castle is the oldest inhabited home in the country with beautiful gardens including many rare plants collected from around the world over the last...

First published in 1902, the stories of this book are origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.

Children and adults alike will delight in reading aloud these enduring and enchantingly told stories, richly illustrated and fabulously reimagined by award-winning artist Scott Gustafson. Stories include -The Little Red Hen, - -The Princess and the Pea, - -The Emperor's New Clothes, - -The Ugly Duckling, - and -Beauty and the Beast.-

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tiger's Curse series and Reawakened comes a novella full of celestial marvel, passion, betrayal, and evil that will grow to reign over humanity forever. Before Lily and Amon met, before the cosmos were in chaos and needed three brave brothers to fight off evil, there were four siblings who helped rule the earth. Each sibling had a special gift. Osiris, the god of agriculture, helped mortals to grow and thrive in their natural environment. Isis, the goddess of creation, fostered health and wellness. Nephthys, the seer, was able to keep the...

A life parable for children and adults about discovering fear. Una parabola de la vida para ninos y adultos sobre el descubrimiento del miedo."

Who hasn't misplaced something important? Readers large and small will laugh knowingly along with this relatable (and rather giant) case of forgetfulness.

Belbum is a giant. Like most giants, he is very good at stomping, napping, and losing things. One day he loses something especially important, though: his only pair of pants. After searching high and low, Belbum sets off to ask his friends whether they have any pants he can borrow. But the cyclops only wears tunics. The gnome's pants, stretchy as they may be, are far too small for Belbum. And unicorns don't even wear...

Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Brigette Barrager reunite to bring us a sparkly, magical sequel to Uni the Unicorn

The Land of Unicorns is in trouble -- it has been raining and raining for what seems like forever. This is a big problem because there are only three ways that unicorns can get their magic: from the golden sun, from magnificent rainbows, and from the sparkle of believing.

Luckily, Uni the Unicorn has always always always believed...that little girls are REAL. Join this very special unicorn and the little girl who believes right back as they finally meet and work...

Second Fairy Story... Present time and place, a happy colony of fairies lives and thrives within an ocean island which is known as Fairyland under the watchful eye of the Fairy Queen. Each teen fairy is required to attend the Princess and Prince Fairy Academy at the age of thirteen years old until the age of graduation at eighteen years old. Then, the newly celebrated eighteen year old fairy will go to work as the royal fairy rule is dictated by the Fairy Queen. Centuries ago, the first Fairy Queen made a deal with the humans, who currently reside upon the mainland, to care for the young and...

Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles whose family left the fishing life and their home on the small islet of Ron Mor for the Scottish mainland when Fiona was six. But city life doesn't suit Fiona so at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns more about her mother's strange ways with the seals and seabirds; she hears stories of the selkies, mythological creatures that are half seal and half human; and she wonders about her baby brother, Jamie, who disappeared during the island evacuation but whom fishermen claim to have seen....