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| x Gianni and the Ogre | Ruth Manning-Sanders | 1971 |
Gianni and the Ogre is a 1971 anthology of 18 fairy tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1970, by...
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| x Matilda |
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Roald Dahl | 1988 |
Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It was first published in London in 1988 by Jonathan Cape, and was adapted into a film in 1996.
The parents of five-year-old Matilda Wormwood have no interest in their daughter....
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| x The Book of Three |
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Lloyd Alexander | Aug 1964 |
The Book of Three is the first of Lloyd Alexander's five-part novel series The Chronicles of Prydain (first published 1964). Inspired by Welsh mythology, it follows the adventures of Taran, a boy in the care of the enchanter Dallben, as he enters...
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| x The Hollow Hills |
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Mary Stewart | 1973 |
The Hollow Hills is a novel by Mary Stewart. It is the second in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian Legends. This book is preceded by The Crystal Cave and succeeded by The Last Enchantment. The Hollow Hills was written in 1970.
The...
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| x The Last Enchantment |
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Mary Stewart | Jan 1979 |
The Last Enchantment is a 1979 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. It is the third in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, preceded by The Hollow Hills and succeeded by The Wicked Day.
The protagonist of this story is the wizard Merlin, who...
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| x The 13 Clocks |
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James Thurber | Jan 1, 1950 |
The Thirteen Clocks is a fantasy tale written by James Thurber in 1950 in Bermuda, while he was completing one of his other novels. It is written in a unique cadenced style, in which a mysterious prince must complete a seemingly impossible task to...
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| x Dragonsong |
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Anne McCaffrey | Jan 1, 1976 |
Dragonsong is a novel written by Anne McCaffrey in 1976. It is the first in the Harper Hall Trilogy. The other two novels are Dragonsinger and Dragondrums.
Dragonsong was one of the books cited when McCaffrey's "lifetime contribution in writing for...
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| x Black Beauty |
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Anna Sewell | Nov 24, 1877 |
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five...
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| x Peter and the Shadow Thieves |
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Dave Barry | Jul 2006 |
Peter and the Shadow Thieves is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, in 2006. Written by humorist Dave Barry and novelist Ridley Pearson, the book is a sequel to their book Peter and the...
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| x The Hobbit |
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J. R. R. Tolkien | 1937 |
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in a time "Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men", The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the...
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| x The Prisoner of Zenda |
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Anthony Hope | 1894 |
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles...
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| x Peter Pan |
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J. M. Barrie |
Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist James M. Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy is the title of Barrie's 1911 novelization of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a...
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| x Acquainted With the Night |
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Christopher Dewdney | 2004 |
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World After Dark is a book of non-fiction by Christopher Dewdney about the world after dark. It was first published in 2004 by HarperCollins. Its title was inspired by the same named poem written by...
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| x The Time Machine |
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H. G. Wells | 1895 |
The Time Machine is a novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly...
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| x Taran Wanderer |
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Lloyd Alexander | Nov 1967 |
Taran Wanderer is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander. It tells of Taran's search for his lineage through which he encounters many different people who each help to shape Taran as he learns about who he truly is....
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| x Dragondrums |
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Anne McCaffrey | 1979 |
Dragondrums is a novel written by Anne McCaffrey in 1979. It is the last book of The Harper Hall Trilogy. The first two novels in this trilogy are Dragonsong and Dragonsinger.
Dragondrums is the coming of age story of Piemur, a small, quick, clever...
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| x Dragonsinger |
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Anne McCaffrey | 1977 |
Dragonsinger, written by Anne McCaffrey, is part of the Harper Hall Trilogy which consists of the science fiction fantasy novels Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums. These books are part of the series known as the Dragonriders of Pern.
The...
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| x Ella Enchanted |
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Gail Carson Levine | 1997 |
Ella Enchanted is a Newbery Honor book written by Gail Carson Levine and published in 1997. It is also the title of the American movie based on the novel and released April 9, 2004 directed by Tommy O'Haver and starring Anne Hathaway and Hugh Dancy....
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| x The Black Cauldron |
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Lloyd Alexander | Jun 1965 |
The Black Cauldron is a 1965 fantasy novel, the second book in Lloyd Alexander's five-part novel series The Chronicles of Prydain (first published in 1964). The story centers on the adventures of Taran, an Assistant Pig-Keeper in the magical land of...
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| x Villa Incognito |
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Tom Robbins |
Bantam Doubleday Dell (US) and Random House (Australia) published Villa Incognito in April and June 2003, respectively. One of the most quoted lines from the book is the very first, setting the tone for this Tom Robbins adventure: "It has been...
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| x Eragon |
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Christopher Paolini | Aug 26, 2003 |
Eragon is the first book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. Paolini began writing the book at the age of fifteen. After writing the first draft for a year, he spent a second year rewriting it and fleshing out the story and characters....
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| x The Old Wives' Tale |
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Arnold Bennett | 1908 |
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into...
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| x The Iron Heel |
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Jack London | 1908 |
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the...
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| x The Crystal Cave | Mary Stewart | 1970 |
The Crystal Cave is a 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. The first in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, it is followed by The Hollow Hills.
The protagonist of this story is a boy named Myrddin Emrys, also known as Merlin, which is...
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| x Tales from Silver Lands | Charles Finger | 1924 |
Tales from Silver Lands is a book by Charles Finger that won the Newbery Medal in 1925.
The book is a collection of nineteen folktales of the native populations of Central and South America, including a "just-so story" describing how rabbits and...
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| x At Swim-Two-Birds |
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Flann O'Brien | 1939 |
At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.
The novel's title derives...
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| x Westmark |
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Lloyd Alexander | Apr 1981 |
Westmark is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander that received an American Book Award. It is the first book of the Westmark trilogy, followed by The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen. Showing influences from the French existentialist writers whose works...
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| x Call It Courage |
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Armstrong Sperry | 1940 |
Call It Courage (published as The Boy Who Was Afraid in the United Kingdom) is a book in English written and illustrated by Armstrong Sperry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1941.
Call It Courage is a...
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| x White Fang |
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Jack London | May 1906 |
White Fang is the title of a novel by American author Jack London. The novel was first serialized in The Outing Magazine in May to October 1906. It is the story of a wild wolfdog's journey toward becoming civilized in Yukon Territory, Canada, during...
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| x The High King |
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Lloyd Alexander | Jun 1968 |
The High King (1969) is the last book in the Chronicles of Prydain fantasy series of books by Lloyd Alexander. It was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1969.
Taran and the Companions join the rest of...
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| x Kira-Kira |
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Cynthia Kadohata | 2004 |
Kira-Kira is a young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata. It won the Newbery Medal for children's literature in 2005. The book's plot is about a Japanese-American family living in Georgia. The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named...
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| x Smoky the Cow Horse | Will James | 1926 |
Smoky the Cowhorse is a novel by Will James that was the winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal.
The story details the life of a horse in the western United States from his birth to his eventual decline. Smoky is born in the wild, but is captured and...
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| x The Tale of Despereaux |
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Kate DiCamillo | 2003 |
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread is a 2003 Newbery Medal winning children's fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. It tells the story of a mouse, named Despereaux, on a quest to rescue...
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| x Coyote Blue |
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Christopher Moore | Mar 4, 1994 |
Coyote Blue is the second novel by Christopher Moore, published in 1994.
The plot concerns a salesman in Santa Barbara, California named Sam Hunter (a Crow Indian born Samson Hunts Alone) who, as a teenager, fled his home when he was involved in the...
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| x Secrets in the Fire |
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Henning Mankell |
Secrets in the Fire is a children's novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell. It was published in 1995 and was translated into English by Anne Connie Stuksrud. Land mine victim Sofia Alface served as the inspiration for the novel.
Sofia's hometown,...
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| x The White Stag |
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Kate Seredy | 1937 |
The White Stag is a book by Kate Seredy that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1938. It follows a warrior band, the Huns and Magyars, across Asia and into Europe. They follow a mythic White Stag to a Promised...
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| x Worlds in Collision |
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Immanuel Velikovsky |
Worlds in Collision is a book written by Immanuel Velikovsky and first published on April 3, 1950, by Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan's interest in publishing it was encouraged by the knowledge that Velikovsky had obtained a promise from Gordon...
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| x Robinson Crusoe |
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Daniel Defoe | Apr 25, 1719 |
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It was first published in 1719, and is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book, although based on the true story of a Scotsman, Alexander Selkirk, is a fictional autobiography of...
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| x The Farthest Shore |
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Ursula K. Le Guin | 1972 |
The Farthest Shore is the third of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1972. It follows on from The Tombs of Atuan, which itself was a sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea. It...
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| x Rupert of Hentzau |
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Anthony Hope |
Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898.
The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from The Prisoner of Zenda. The frame implies that the...
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| x Journey to the West |
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Wu Cheng'en |
Journey to the West (simplified Chinese: 西游记; traditional Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xī Yóu Jì; Wade-Giles: Hsi-yu chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty...
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| x The Hero with a Thousand Faces |
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Joseph Campbell |
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a non-fiction book, and seminal work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell. In this publication, Campbell discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world...
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| x The Castle of Llyr |
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Lloyd Alexander | 1966 |
The Castle of Llyr is a is the third volume in the children's fantasy series Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander.
Taran continues his adventures and encounters new friends and old enemies.
As the story begins, Dallben has decided that Princess...
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| x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
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Roald Dahl | 1964 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric candymaker Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
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| x Wolves Eat Dogs |
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Martin Cruz Smith | 2004 |
Wolves Eat Dogs is a crime novel by Martin Cruz Smith, set in Russia and Ukraine in the year 1996. It is the fifth novel to feature Investigator Arkady Renko.
Russia has changed from a Communist to capitalist state, and the Ukraine has seceded from...
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| x The Tombs of Atuan |
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Ursula K. Le Guin | 1971 |
The Tombs of Atuan is the second of a series of books written by Ursula K. Le Guin and set in her fantasy archipelago of Earthsea, first published in 1971. Its events take place a few years after those in A Wizard of Earthsea and around two decades...
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| x Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales | Ruth Manning-Sanders | 1960 |
Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1960 anthology of 19 fairy tales from North American Indian culture that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
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| x The Alchemist |
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Paulo Coelho | 1988 |
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. It follows Santiago, a young boy Spanish shepherd, on a journey to fulfill his Personal Legend. It has been hailed as a modern classic. The...
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| x Playing Beatie Bow |
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Ruth Park | 1980 |
Playing Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book written by Ruth Park and first published in 1980.
The story is set in Australia and is about a girl named Abigail (christened Lynette when she was born) who travels back in time to colonial Sydney...
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| x The Yearling |
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | 1938 |
The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939.
Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She...
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| x The King of the Golden River |
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John Ruskin |
The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria by John Ruskin was originally written in 1841 for the twelve-year-old Effie (Euphemia) Gray, whom Ruskin later married. It was published in book form in 1851, and became an early...
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| x Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads | Ruth Manning-Sanders | 1968 |
Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads is a 1968 anthology of 15 ballads that have been collected and retold in prose or fairy tale form by Ruth Manning-Sanders, for easier reading. It is one in a long series of anthologies by Manning-Sanders...
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| x Tortoise Tales | Ruth Manning-Sanders | 1974 |
Tortoise Tales is a 1974 anthology of 13 animal-centered fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. These tales are written for a younger level of reader than Manning-Sanders' more familiar "A Book...
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| x The New Arabian Nights | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1882 |
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories...
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| x The Wind in the Willows |
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Kenneth Grahame | 1908 |
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is...
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| x The Penelopiad |
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Margaret Atwood | Oct 11, 2005 |
The Penelopiad is a novella by Margaret Atwood. It was published in 2005 as part of the first set of books in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. In The Penelopiad, Penelope reminisces on the events during the...
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| x Tehanu |
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Ursula K. Le Guin | 1990 |
Tehanu was the fourth of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1991.
Tehanu continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea...
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| x The Frog Prince, Continued |
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Jon Scieszka | 1991 |
The Frog Prince, Continued (ISBN 0590981676) by Jon Scieszka (illustrated by Steve Johnson) is a picture book parody "sequel" to the tale of The Frog Prince, in which a princess kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. It was first published in...
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| x The Second Jungle Book |
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Rudyard Kipling | 1895 |
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All...
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| x The Door in the Hedge |
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Robin McKinley |
The Door in the Hedge is a collection of fairy tales by Robin McKinley. First published by William Morrow and Company in 1981, it is a compilation of retellings and new favorites. The collection includes The Stolen Princess, The Princess and the...
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