12 traditionnal american fairy tales and short stories : The Box of Robbers, The Glass Dog, The Queen of Quok, The Little Girl who owned a Bear, The Enchanted Types, The Laughing Hippopotamus, The Magic Bon Bons, The Capture of Father Time, The Wonderful Pump, The Dummy that Lived, The King of the Polar Bears, The Mandarin and the Butterfly. The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
7 classic fairytales short stories by Brothers Grimm : Rumpelstiltskin, Clever Gretel, The Old Man and his Grandson, The Little Peasant, Snowdrop, Sweetheart Roland, Frederick and Catherine. The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
HP Lovecraft 15 Essential Stories & HG Wells 7 Essential Stories : 22 stories of real fantastic, horror or science fiction classics. Lovecraft : The Temple, Dagon, The Music of Erich Zann, The Nameless City, Hypnos, The Outsider, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The History of Necronomicon, Azathoth, The Stolen Body, The Lurking fear, The Whisperer in Darkness, Herbert West reanimator, The Shadow over Innsmouth. HG Wells : The Valley of Spiders, The Magic Shop, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, Miss Winchelsea's Heart, The New Accelerator, The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost. The Truth About Pyecraft.
The Three Treasures of the Giants is a Slavonic fairy tale. A man had three sons. When he was dying, he told his oldest that he would inherit, but must be kind to his mother and his younger brothers; he then gave the older two more advice, and told the youngest son that while he was not clever, he had a kind heart and should follow it. After he died, the sons set out to seek their fortune; the older two wanted to leave the youngest behind, but their mother said there was nothing for him there...The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail.
3 classic fairytales short stories by Brothers Grimm : Iron Hans, Cat-Skin and King Grisly Beard. The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
11 magical tales for little kids : Babes in the Wood, Snow Drop and Seven Little dwarfs, The Magic Mirror, The Crow, The Wizard King, The White Duck, The Golden Crab, The Dragon and his Grandmother, The Six Swans, The Story of the Emperor's New Clothes, The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership. The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
The Adventures of a Jackal is a classic children's short story : ' In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company. One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed: 'Oh! there is a barn full of corn; let us go and eat some.' 'Yes, do let us!' answered the hedgehog. So they went to the barn, and ate till they could eat no more. Then the jackal put on his shoes, which he had taken off so as to make no noise, and they returned to the high road. After they had gone some way they met a panther, who stopped, and bowing politely, said: 'Excuse my speaking to you, but I cannot help admiring those shoes of yours. Do you mind telling me who made them?' 'Yes, I think they are rather nice,' answered the jackal; 'I made them myself, though.' 'Could you make me a pair like them?' asked the panther eagerly...
Herbert George Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a 'father of science fiction'. Discover HG Wells 6 best short stories : The Valley of Spiders, The Magic Shop, Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation, Miss Winchelsea's Heart, The New Accelerator, The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost. Those 6 stories are real fantastic, horor or science fiction classics.
12 stories from all over the world : Lovely Ilonka, Lucky Luck, The Hairy Man, Little Wildrose, Paperarelloo, The Gifts of the Magician, The Strong Prince, The Crab and the Monkey, The Cottager and his Cat, The Stone-Cutter, How The Wicked Tanuki Was Punished, The Colony of Cats, Clever Maria, The Magic Kettle. The imagery in fairy tales (such as personified animals, adults represented as giants and allegorical magic vegetables) allows the child to explore their fears in remote and symbolic terms. Fairy tales allow the reader to explore each virtue and path of action through the different characters' fates. The child decides their own personal stance after deliberating each consequence. Fairy tales provide answers to what the world is really like and the child's place within it.
Le Roman du Renard (à l'origine ' Le Roman de Renart ') est l'adaptation pour enfants d'un ensemble médiéval de récits animaliers écrits en ancien français et en vers. Les héros en sont Renart ou Goupil (le renard) et Ysengrin (le loup), en qui se personnifient la ruse et la force. Autour d'eux se meut tout un monde, qui est l'image du monde féodal avec sa hiérarchie, ses castes, ses préjugés, ses moeurs et ses lois : le roi Noble, le lion, et dame Orgueilleuse, se femme; Brun, l'ours, et Beaucent, le sanglier, conseillers du roi; l'archiprêtre Bernart, l'âne; Braiant, le taureau; le bon sire Belin, le mouton; Tardieu, le limaçon, brillant et preux chevalier, etc.
Sinbad le marin est le nom d'une fable d'origine irakienne qui conte les aventures d'un marin de la ville de Baghdad, il y a 2500 ans. Durant ses voyages dans les mers de l'Afrique et de l'Asie, Sinbad vit de nombreuses aventures fantastiques. Ce récit appartient aux contes des ' Les Mille et Une Nuits '. L'histoire : Un pauvre livreur fait une pause sur un banc près de la grille de la maison d'un riche marchand. Alors qu'il se plaint à Allah des injustices d'un monde qui permet aux riches de vivre pleinement alors que lui doit travailler d'arrache-pied et demeurer pauvre, le propriétaire des lieux l'entend et l'envoie chercher. Le riche Sinbad dit au pauvre Hindbad qu'il est devenu riche par la chance, au cours de ses sept voyages fantastiques qu'il va maintenant lui raconter. Voici le récit de son 1er voyage...
