Enjoy a delightful excursion into the wonderful world of make-believe, where fairy-tales and old favorite stories come vividly to life. Narration by expert storytellers, music, exciting sound effects, and dramatic dialogue will inspire children. This classic tale is sure to become a favorite pastime, treating children to a magical fantasy of entertaining enjoyment, along with life lessons to which they can relate.
They named their daughter Aurora, for she filled their lives with light like the dawn. During the celebration for the newborn princess, the evil Maleficent placed a curse on Aurora... Before the sun set on her sixteenth birthday, Aurora would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die!
After an explanation of how the magic umbrella works, the two children, joined by Cap'n Bill, decide to take a trip to a nearby island; they call it "Sky island," because it looks like it's "halfway in the sky"-but the umbrella takes them to a different place entirely, a literal island in the sky.
Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was an English short story writer, children's writer, novelist, travel writer and war correspondent during the First World War.
This is a collection of six of the magical fairy stories he wrote for children.
The Glass Mender
The Silver Mountain
The Wise Princess
The Cunning Apprentice
The Minstrel
The Blue Rose
Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional sailor and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin. The tales of Sinbad are a relatively late addition to the Thousand and One Nights; he is described as living in Baghdad, during the Abbasid Caliphate. During his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena.
The police are no closer to solving the murder of trainer, John Straker. He was killed last Monday night, 22nd October. The famous racehorse Silver Blaze has been missing since the night of the attack. The country’s most famous racehorse has mysteriously disappeared and, what’s worse, his trainer has been murdered! All eyes turn to Sherlock Holmes to unravel this strange mystery, find the murderer and return Silver Blaze to safety – all before the Wessex Cup race.
Silas Marner, a weaver, is a good man but he is mistaken for a thief who stole donations at his church. He moves to the city and begins his new life weaving and saving gold which is then stolen. A forlorn child comes into his life and his life improves dramatically after suffering much sadness and loneliness.
This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 easy-to-understand chapters.
Der Roman spielt im 6. Jahrhundert vor Christus in Indien und handelt von einem jungen Brahmanen namens Siddhartha und seinem Freund Govinda. Von seinem Vater und anderen Priestern lernt dieser über die Veden, deren philosophische Gedanken, religiöse Gebote und Anleitungen zu Gebeten und Ritualen. Weil er sieht, wie diese trotz heiliger Waschungen und Gebete zur Reinigung von den Sünden nicht aus dem Samsara entkommen, widmet er sein Leben der Suche nach dem Atman, dem All-einen, das in jedem Menschen ist.
Ben wants to take something really neat to school for show and tell. What could be neater than his new baby sister? But his sister doesn't want to co-operate. She cries in his backpack. She cries at the teacher. She cries at the principal, who decides she must be sick. When they call in a doctor, she cries harder. Ben knows just the right person to call to help-his mom!
There's nothing eleven-year-old Marty Preston enjoys more than spending time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia.
But this time is different. This time Marty sees a young beagle on the road past the old Shiloh school-house.
Marty feels sure the dog is being abused by his owner. When the dog runs away to Marty's house, his parents say he must bring him back. But it hurts Marty to return the runaway dog to his cruel master.
That's when Marty secretly decides he'll do anything to save the dog he names Shiloh.
In this Grandpa Tyler story titled Shhh...We'll Never Tell, you will hear about Amy and her best friend Wendy. They each have an embarrassing secret that they don’t tell anyone. But when the two friends come together for a sleep-over, they find that their secrets are just alike. This story shows how we are alike in many ways…but Amy and Wendy will never tell their shared secrets to anyone else.
Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure.
Sherlock is on the trail of a murderer. As he investigates the death of country gentleman John Douglas, he begins to piece together some unusual clues: muddy bootprints, a tattoo, and something called 'The Valley of Fear.' Can Holmes put these together in time to solve the mystery?
Adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf, this thrilling tale will delight children aged 7+.
