Including tales such as: Enchanted Stag Twelve Brothers Puss in Boots Jack and the Beanstalk Princess on the Pea Ugly Duckling Light Princess Beauty and the Beast Hansel and Gretel Jack the Giant Killer Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor Story of Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp And many more.
After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.
Hawthorne in his ''Wonder Book'' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep.
The Arthur of history was engaged in a life-long struggle with an enemy that threatened to rob his people of home, of country, and of freedom; in the stories, the king and his knights, like Richard Coeur-de-Lion, sought adventure for adventure''s sake, or, as in the case of Sir Peredur, took fantastic vows for the love of a lady.
More than five hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur''s Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well.
Wherefore if it will please you to read that which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, hight the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so brought him back to health again.
In this book we tell the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting and exciting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
