Revive your childhood wonder and fascination with the most exquisitely illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables -featuring breathtaking original artwork by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Charles Santore! Captivating the hearts and minds of kids and adults for generations, Aesop, a former Greek slave, developed simple and meaningful adventures featuring animals or insects to teach a moral standard or lesson for living. The most well known...

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH MARK TWAIN'S CLASSIC NOVEL Written by Mark Twain in 1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander, a 19th-century engineer from Connecticut. After a severe blow to the head, Hank awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time and space to early medieval England during the reign of King Arthur. After a bit of confusion and his...

Es war einmal... Freche Zwerge, süße Feen und sprechende Tiere, die glücklich im Wald lebten. Es gab auch Kinder, Prinzen und Prinzessinnen, magische Blumen und Hexen auf fliegenden Besen. Es gab, in der Tat, bezaubernde, lustige Geschichten, alle in einer unglaublichen Sammlung von Märchen zusammengefasst. Fügen Sie dieses Buch Ihrem Warenkorb hinzu und machen Sie sich bereit, auf den Flügeln der Fantasie zu fliegen... bereiten Sie...

Three wise monks trick a poor, frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity.

First published in 1903, "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" is Howard Pyle's brilliantly illustrated book, which chronicles some of the major episodes of the legend of King Arthur. The tales of England's mythological first king are told over a series of two books in this volume. In the first book, "The Book of King Arthur", Pyle relates how a young King Arthur wins the throne by pulling the sword from the stone, wins the magical sword Excalibur...

Phileas Fogg era un rico caballero inglés metódico y sedentario, y precisamente por eso le caía tan bien a Passepartout, su nuevo mayordomo. Tras una vida agitada, en la que había sido músico ambulante, domador en un circo, equilibrista y hasta bombero, lo único que quería Passepartout era un trabajo tranquilo. Pero Phileas Fogg tenía un defecto: le gustaban las apuestas. La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda...

Comprised of thirty-three short works of fiction, The Orange Fairy Book explores the folklore and traditions of many origins, including European, Scottish, Scandanavian, and African descent. Depicting tales of magic, anthropomorphic animals, and men made of mountains, The Orange Fairy Book offers diverse representation. In Two Caskets a young maiden must endure abuse and ridicule from her stepmother and sister after the death of her father. When an...

Ellen C. Babbitt has collected, and retold the best thirty-nine of the 547 Jataka Tales. These charming fables originated in India sometime around the fifth-century, and have been, teaching children valuable lessons ever since.

The story of Siegfried, the brave young man who rode through fire to awaken the lovely Brunhild from a long sleep, has been told many times and in many variations. James Baldwin's account, written well over 100 years ago, has taken bits and pieces from many different versions. The result is an adventure-packed retelling of tales describing "The Curse of Gold," "Nibelungen Land," "The Journey to Burgundy-Land," "How Spring-Time Came," "The War with...

Everyone in this story is hungry. The Three Billy Goats Gruff want to cross a bridge to eat some sweet green grass. But, under the bridge is a big bad, troll. He wants to eat them up. Can they cross the bridge?