INFANCY & YOUTH:Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra; but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile.
An earthenware porringer, bought by a little Flemish girl of Bruges as a gift for the Christ child and stolen by Robber Hans, finally brings much happiness to her and her grandmother, the lace maker.
This Excellent Collection brings together Edgar Allan Poe's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Fiction Books, Short Stories, Poetries, Essays and Biographies.
THROWING HERSELF IN HER GRANDFATHER'S ARMS, SHE HELD HIM TIGHTShe climbed so fast that she could soon discover, first the tree-tops, then the roof, finally the hut.
Juan es un mostro pelirrojo, con jorobas como de camello y la mano izquierda similar a una pata de guajalote, que vive encerrado a piedra y lodo en la casa señorial de su padre, en el Real de Minas de Taxco.
¿Qué puede hacer una niña para proteger la tranquilidad de la pequeña familia que forman solo ella, su papá y sus mascotas, los caracoles de su jardín?
Nueve cuentos que tienen como protagonistas a distintos animales: un abejorro que rescata a una abeja que cayó en una telaraña, un grillo que encuentra una estrella, un cangrejo que junta hojas para construir una torre.
Hansel y Gretel Pachecho, abandonados por sus padres, se pierden en el bosque y caen en manos de una bruja, que se los lleva con engaños a una casa de chocolate.
In "Ein Feuerwerk für den Fuchs" entwickeln Pettersson und sein Kater Findus einen kreativen Plan, um einen Fuchs von ihren Hühnern fernzuhalten, ohne ihm zu schaden.
This book, like the others of this series, has only been rendered possible by the courtesy and complaisance of the various collectors from whom I have culled my treasures.
Old French Fairy Tales contains a group of fairy tales redolent of the charm of the seventeenth century, told with that delicacy so characteristic of the French.
Canadian Fairy Tales is a collection of 26 of Native American folk tales gathered from across Canada by Professor Cyrus MacMillan, who did not indicate the origin tribe of each story.
