Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.

These stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories: fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about.

The first Christians to visit Europe and the British Isles met pagans who told tales of fairies, talking beasts, and other wonderful things.

''Beauty and the Beast'' is a magical tale of love, understanding, and triumph.

By the critically acclaimed author of Tyger Tyger, a warm, magical story of a girl's struggle to keep a promise to her dead mother.

A 2018 Carnegie Medal NomineeA MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVEThe Vanishings started without warning.

Dear Reader, you hold in your hands a very special book that contains more than thirty-five classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, plus your very own survival guide to the Land of Stories.

The epic conclusion to Chris Colfer's No.

Journey to the clouds and back in Colt of the Clouds, the breathtaking second Winged Horse Race adventure from Kallie George, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.

Whilst leaving footpaths should never be done, Straying from stories is all sorts of fun!

Regarded as a modern fairy tale, L.

Once Upon a Wild Wood is a richly imagined story packed full of familiar fairy tale characters as you've never seen them before.

"e;A summer holiday in a book.

Has the big bad wolf finally met his match?

It's time to save Tale Town!

The fifth book in the exciting Little Legends series, The Secret Mountain by Tom Percival sees the fairy tale friends on a thrilling adventure to the mysterious mountain home of the trolls.

Fashioned as a whimsical fairy tale, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus was published in 1902, just two years after L.

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike.

This second collection of stories and poetry featuring Dan and Una and their adventures with the fairy, Puck, is a classic to treasure.

Playing in the gardens of their home, Dan and Una come across Puck, an ancient fairy with a gift for storytelling.

A glittering story of frost and friendship, full of magic and heart, A Girl Called Owl is Amy Wilson's folklore-fantasy about the beauty of nature.

Fairy tales are written both to entertain and to educate.

For the past two centuries these delightful stories, gathered together and written down by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, have entertained and frightened children and adults alike.

Folk tales and fairy stories from all over the world are collected together in this gorgeous international anthology which brings together 'The Frog Who Became an Emperor' from China, 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' from Norway, and 'Pinocchio' from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde, among many others.

When a kind young boy helps a strange-looking bird, a beautiful friendship forms.

A witty twist on a favourite fairy tale, Little Red was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book.

Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb.

Game of Thrones meets Thor: Ragnarok in Between the Blade and the Heart, a gripping story of love and revenge from Amanda Hocking, author of the Trylle trilogy and the Kanin Chronicles.

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Much Ado About Baseball is the best childrens book Ive read in the past 10 years!

This retelling of the One Thousand and One Nights tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, set in tenth-century Baghdad, is told from the perspective of Marjana, the girl who saves Ali Baba, and brings a fresh perspective to the classic story!

The Big Bend of Texas is a mysterious place in 1869.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series.

Its up to the Changers to rescue their friend Mack from the enemybut in order to do that, they must first break an ancient cursein the seventh action-packed novel of The Hidden World of Changers series!

Skade, the goddess of skiing, is known as one of the best athletesand a top studentat Asgard Academy.

From the authors of the Goddess Girls series comes the third book in a series steeped in Norse mythology, magic, adventure, and friendship.

Read all about Princess Mini and her merry mis-adventures at Royal Fairy Academy in the newest Royal Sweets book that's perfect for fans of Sofia the First.

Princess Mini goes on a class trip with all of the other students at the Royal Fairy Academy in this third super-sweet Aladdin QUIX story.

Join Princess Mini on all of her princess adventures at the Royal Fairy Academy in this second super-sweet Aladdin QUIX story.

Join Princess Mini on all of her princess adventures at the Royal Fairy Academy in this super-sweet story that's launching QUIX, a new line of fun-to-read short chapter books that are perfect for emerging readers.

Zeus and his friends discover another Olympian who might be able to help in their quest to defeat King Cronus in this Heroes in Training adventure.

Gabriella must master a mysterious new ability to save her friend in the sixth action-packed novel of The Hidden World of Changers series!

A new threat is lurking in the shadows in the electrifying fifth novel of The Hidden World of Changers series!

Thirteen-year-old Lucia Frank discovers that she can become the girl she's always wanted to be with the help of a little ';moon magic' in this charming novel about the value of friendship, family, and finding yourself.

Get to know Clotho, one of the Three Fates, in this twenty-fifth Goddess Girls adventure!

Get to know Eos, the Goddess of Dawn, in this twenty-fourth Goddess Girls adventure!

Princess Medea and a boy named Jason go on a quest for the Golden Fleece in this twenty-third Goddess Girls adventure!

Fiona sets out on a journey to find her mother and unlock her selkie magic at last in the thrilling fourth novel of The Hidden World of Changers series!

Darren receives a mysterious bracelet that helps him control his lightning abilities in the third action-packed novel of The Hidden World of Changers series!

A unique principal named Mr.