Hans Christian Andersen

Neil Philip

Isabelle Brent

A new collection of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales. There are 12 stories which include old favourites such as The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen, as well as some less well known tales such as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and The Shadow.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Retells the classic Brothers Grimm story of a youngest son's quest for a golden bird, horse, and princess despite long travel, temptation, and the treachery of his brothers, in a lavishly illustrated rendition with gold-leaf designs.

The Golden Bird

Fables are short tales with a moral, often featuring animal characters. Aesop's fables from Ancient Greece are the best-known, and Jean de la Fontaine elegantly reworked their themes to the taste of 17th century France. Oral storytellers have kept the fable alive all over the world.Aesops' fables include: Sour Grapes, The Lion's Share, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, King Log, The Dog in the Manger and The Wind and the Sun.The fables of La Fontaine include: The Cicada and the Ant, The Frog Who Wanted to be as Big as the Ox, The Fox and the Stork, The Lion and the Goat and The Rat and the Elephant.This enchanting collection of best-loved fables is illustrated with work by many of the great names of the golden age of illustration, including Walter Crane, Charles H. Bennett, Charles Robinson, Richard Heighway, Frederick Burr Opper, J M Conde and others.

Best-Loved Fables

This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War and Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals and Nature and Poems of Magic and Mystery. The anthology includes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robert Burns, T S Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, W B Yeats and many, many more. The poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip and the volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders and decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent, glowing with her trademark gold leaf.

Best-Loved Poems

Christmas Record Book

A collection of stories from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany which show their common Celtic heritage in their love of extravagance and poetry, their quick wit and their daring sense of adventure. Here, retold much as they were around Celtic peat fires a hundred years ago, are the enthralling tales of Fair Brown and Trembling, The Brown Bear of the Glen, and The Ship that Went to America. Some of the stories give familiar tales a Celtic twist - Duffy and the Devil is a comic Cornish take on the Rumplestiltskin story; The Black Cat is a dark and mysterious Breton Cinderella...and others seem new and strange such as the doomed love of Lutey and the Mermaid or the mystic rapture of The Little Bird. Perhaps the most riveting of all is the Irish tale of The Soul Cages, in which a fisherman makes friends with one of the sea-people, Coomara, and uses their friendship to free the souls of drowned sailors, kept by Coomara in lobster pots in his house beneath the waves...

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