The basis for a major film release from Walt Disney Pictures.

    A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children.

    Chain of events is set in motion when storekeeper tries to trick a customer.

    1916, d.1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was born into the Cherokee nation and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He essentially married into the Shoshone tribe when he united with his first wife, Spotted Fawn, who preceded him in death.

    The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.

    A companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations.A Caldecott Honor Book* "A lyrical song of Swahili life."--School Library Journal, starred review

    Such is the effect of these essays, a series given as lectures at the National Gallery in 1973. Mr. Barzun examines art as religion, as destroyer, as redeemer, and in relation to what he calls "its temper, science," but never forgets the basic essential. As he says, "the last word on art should indeed be: mystery. But that need not stop any of us from dealing with it as if we understood more than we can." And how good it is to have one's mind stretched to that understanding of "more.""--Virginia Quarterly Review

    A collection of Baltic folklore from Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.Estonian tales include: The Mosquito and the Horse / How a Raven Wooed a Tomtit / The Two Horses / The Kind Woodcutter / The King of the Mushrooms / The Magic Mirror / Smudgeface / The Wise Counsellor / The Fleetfooted Princess / The Grateful Prince / The Clever Princess / How a Man Stepped Into His Wife's Shoes / How an Old Man Waited for Death.Lithuanian tales include: How a Woodpecker Chopped a Spruce-Tree / Rooster Sing-True-Cock-a-doodle-doo / The Hedgehog and His Bride / The Washerwoman and the Count / The Swan Queen / The Fool Who Became King / The Twelve Brothers, Twelve Black Ravens / The Fool Who Pastured a Hundred Rabbits / Spruce, Queen of the Grass Snakes / The Greatest Loafer of Them All / A Lord's Promise / Strakalas and Makalas / The Six Toothless Men and a Squinteyed One.Latvian tales include: The Brave Rooster / How the Birds and Animals Dug a Bed for the Daugava / The Frog That Came from Riga and the Frog That Came from Liepaja / The Kindhearted Lad and His Four Friends / The Palace of the Cats / The Bear Who Married a Peasant's Daughter / The Three Knots / How Laima Made Three Wishes Come True / Bulbulis the Bird / Strongfist / The Three Magic Things / The Lord Who Became a Blacksmith / The Baron and the Shepard.

    The bombs that leveled her Warsaw home that day marked the beginning of her soul-stirring odyssey of endurance and escape, through years of horror and Holocaust. Strong when others grew weak, selfless in pursuit of freedom, Anya, once the beautiful, pampered daughter of privilege, turned herself into a survivor whom nothing and no one could destroy."A triumph of realism in art." —The New York Times Book Review"Anya is a myth, an epic, the creation of darkness and of laughter stopped forever…A vision, set down by a fearless, patient poet…A writer of remarkable power." —The Washington Post

    Now renowned as the Persian poet who created the Rubayyat, Omar Khayyam was known in his time as an astronomer and mathematician. He created his famous poem as a personal answer to the great questions of life. The poem extended through more than 750 stanzas, many of which are now permanently lost."Though partial copies survived the ravages of time, the Rubayyat was virtually unknown outside the Middle East until the 19th century, when the battered manuscripts aroused the interest of Western scholars. But it took the Englishman Edward FitzGerald, a fortunate combination of scholar and poet, to transform the Rubayyat into a worthy English version. Others had attempted literal translations. Only FitzGerald was able to capture the elusive qualities of mystical wonder and beauty which give this work its timeless interest."Omar Khayyam was never sure if the end of life would mean the end of his soul or the beginning of a new existence. One fact is certain: he attained immortality in a manner he had not expected, for his masterpiece will live among the great works of literature as long as there are those who read, wonder, and enjoy." (Inside cover)

    E. Rölvaag lyrically chronicles the experiences of Nils Vaag, a young Norwegian immigrant. Abandoning the life of a fisherman in Nordland, a region poor but full of mystical beauty, Nils emigrates to the New World in 1912. There he sweeps saloons, lives in a boardinghouse called "Babel" for the many languages used by its residents, and begins to find his way among the people of the city.The Boat of Longing was Rölvaag's favorite of all his books and the only one set in urban America. When it was first published in English in 1933, it received wide praise from American critics. This edition includes an introduction by Einar Haugen, professor emeritus of Scandinavian and Linguistics at Harvard University and author of a critical study of Rölvaag.