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Each December, generations of children delight in the ballet version of the quintessential Christmas story The Nutcracker. But few have had the opportunity to revel in the richly detailed original tale. Now, in this glorious new edition, acclaimed children's book author and editor Janet Schulman returns to the source'E.T.A. Hoffmann's “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.” Here we meet Marie, her Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and all the other delightful characters, and we discover the answers to questions left unanswered by the ballet, like why the Nutcracker and the King of Mice were enemies.Artist Renée Graef adds her own enchantment with stunning, jewellike paintings that bring the story thrillingly to life. As an added bonus, this must-have Christmas gift also includes a free audio CD with Tchaikovsky's inimitable musical score and a reading of the complete story by actress Claire Bloom.

In This Book From The Critically Acclaimed, Multimillion-copy Best-selling Little People, Big Dreams Series, Discover The Life Of Hans Christian Andersen, The Father Of Fairy Tales. When Hans Christian Andersen Was A Little Boy, He Treated Storybooks As Jewels To Be Treasured. He Wanted To Perform On Stage, But Was Always Cast As The Troll. Luckily, Through Theater, He Found A Love For Writing. He Wrote About Both The Ordinary And Fantastic, In Stories Like The Ugly Duckling And The Little Mermaid, Never Talking Down To Children. This Enchanting Book Features Stylish And Quirky Illustrations And Extra Facts At The Back, Including A Biographical Timeline With Historical Photos And A Detailed Profile Of The Writer's Life. Little People, Big Dreams Is A Best-selling Series Of Books And Educational Games That Explore The Lives Of Outstanding People, From Designers And Artists To Scientists And Activists. All Of Them Achieved Incredible Things, Yet Each Began Life As A Child With A Dream. This Empowering Series Offers Inspiring Messages To Children Of All Ages, In A Range Of Formats. The Board Books Are Told In Simple Sentences, Perfect For Reading Aloud To Babies And Toddlers. The Hardcover Versions Present Expanded Stories For Beginning Readers. Boxed Gift Sets Allow You To Collect A Selection Of The Books By Theme. Paper Dolls, Learning Cards, Matching Games, And Other Fun Learning Tools Provide Even More Ways To Make The Lives Of These Role Models Accessible To Children. Inspire The Next Generation Of Outstanding People Who Will Change The World With Little People, Big Dreams!

Lilly Owens, ed. Illustrated edition of 159 cherished tales that have enchanted readers for generations. Includes The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, Snow Queen, all uncut with beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Hans Richter, et al. 60 B&W illustrations. 816 pages.

Selfish and lazy, fourteen-year-old Nils learns kindness and wisdom after he is bewitched into an elf-sized boy and carried off by a barnyard goose to join the migration of wild geese across Sweden to Lapland.

Maria Tatar redefines the Grimm canon with this authoritative and entertaining collection. The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables in the most spectacular and unusual Grimm volume in decades. Containing forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar―including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel"―the book also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters such as George Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham; hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities, and psychological effects of these tales; and a biographical essay on the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Perhaps most noteworthy is Tatar's decision to include tales that were previously excised, including a few bawdy stories and others that were removed after the Grimms learned that parents were reading the book to their children―stories about cannibalism in times of famine and stories in which children die at the end. Enchanting and magical, The Annotated Brothers Grimm will cast its spell on children and adults alike for decades to come. 75 color and 75 black-and-white illustrations

Excerpt from Brüder Grimm, Kinder-Und Hausmärchen: School Edition, Selected and Edited, With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary The stories known as Grimm's Marchen were obtained from the oral recitals of the country people. It is the merit of the Brothers (jacob and Wilhelm) Grimm to have been the first to put them in writing and gather them into one collection. This, however, though no small service, was all that they did in respect to the text. They made no change whatever in the story or language. A great many of them they gathered in the region about Cassel, where they resided, and they speak particularly of obtaining many from a peasant-woman, Frau who lived in a neighboring village. She retains, they say, these old traditions firmly in her memory, and relates them with delib cration and assurance, and with uncommon liveliness and interest. Her relation is fluent, but she recites more slowly, if one desires to write them down after her. She never makes any change in repeating the tale, and immediately corrects any mistake that may have escaped her. In the preface to the first volume, in 1812, they speak of having been engaged for six years in thus collecting them, and add: An agreeable remembrance is connected with each one. There are few books whose preparation has been attended with so much pleasure. In the present introduction we shall, for its main outlines, be guided by the above preface; also by that to the second volume in 1815, and the introduction on the nature of stories prefixed to the second edition in 1819. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemis

A richly entertaining and informative collection of Hans Christian Andersen's stories, annotated by one of America's leading folklore scholars. In her most ambitious annotated work to date, Maria Tatar celebrates the stories told by Denmark's "perfect wizard" and re-envisions Hans Christian Andersen as a writer who casts his spell on both children and adults. Andersen's most beloved tales, such as "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Little Mermaid," are now joined by "The Shadow" and "Story of a Mother," mature stories that reveal his literary range and depth. Tatar captures the tales' unrivaled dramatic and visual power, showing exactly how Andersen became one of the world's ten most translated authors, along with Shakespeare, Dickens, and Marx. Lushly illustrated with more than one hundred fifty rare images, many in full color, by artists such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen will captivate readers with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today.

Surely among the most original and gifted of children's book illustrators, Paul O. Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrativecapability brought forth a unique vision for an age-old tale. Few artists at work today can touch the level at which his paintings tell a story and exert their hold.Zelinsky's retelling of Rapunzel reaches back beyond the Grimms to a late-seventeenth-century French tale by Mlle. la Force, who based hers on the Neapolitan tale Petrosinella in a collection popular at the time. The artist understands the story's fundamentals to be about possessiveness, confinement, and separation, rather than about punishment and deprivation. Thus the tower the sorceress gives Rapunzel here is not a desolate, barren structure of denial but one of esoteric beauty on the outside and physical luxury within. And the world the artist creates through the elements in his paintings the palette, control of light, landscape, characters, architecture,interiors, costumes speaks to us not of an ugly witch who cruelly imprisons a beautiful young girl, but of a mother figure who powerfully resists her child's inevitable growth, and of a young woman and man who must struggle in the wilderness for the self-reliance that is the true beginningof their adulthood.As ever, and yet always somehow in newly arresting fashion, Paul O. Zelinsky's work thrillingly shows us the events of the story while guiding us beyond them to the truths that have made it endure.

“In an old house in Paristhat was covered with vineslived twelve little girlsin two straight linesthe smallest one was Madeline.”Nothing frightens Madeline—not tigers, not even mice. With its endearing, courageous heroine, cheerful humor, and wonderful, whimsical drawings of Paris, the Madeline stories are true classics that continue to charm readers even after 75 years!It's the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but when Madeline finds help from a magical merchant, the girls embark on a Christmas journey that will surely make them forget their sniffles and sneezes.Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) was the author of the beloved Madeline books, including Madeline, a Caldecott Honor Book, and Madeline's Rescue, winner of the Caldecott Medal.

A Caldecott Honor BookNew York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the YearNew York Times Outstanding Book of the YearA beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic Grimm's fairy tale about a beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.