Ruth Sanderson retells and illustrates the classic Brother Grimm tale with lavish full-color oil paintings.

    Noble Gareth defeats a dreaded knight and wins the hand of a fair maiden.

    “Mikolaycak’s illustrations...attract attention yet do not overpower the story, making the book one that could be easily used as a picture story book presentation for middle- and upper-grade or even adult audiences.”-The Horn Book

    But the wild creature pines for his mate. When Yasuko, the kitchen maid, releases the bird against her lord's command, she and the one-eyed servant, Shozo, are sentenced to death. The grateful bird intends to return their kindness, but can he outsmart the cruel lord?Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Illustration, and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year.

    The Starlight Princess presents some of the best-loved princess stories, brought to life with illustrations embroidered in a variety of fabrics and threads to create an enchanting collection that children will love and adults will love to read to them. A range of princesses are represented, from a medieval Princess and the Pea to a Russian Frog Princess.

    This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales, hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries around the world. And no drippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead girls, women and crones, wise as serpents, gentle as doves and occasionally daft as brushes.

    “While depicting a strong, resourceful heroine, Forest’s graceful retelling perfectly captures the story’s fairy-tale flavor. . . . Gaber’s haunting paintings range from the wonderfully eerie to the comfortably reassuring.”--Publishers Weekly

    There is a recipe at the end for old-fashioned Danish pudding.

    Includes the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Edna O'Brien, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Alderson, and traditional tales.

    With all the distinctive humor that marked their first two Uncle Remus books, Newbery Honor author Julius Lester and Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney bring new life to thirty-three more delightful folktales.

    Using elements of traditional Celtic lore, relates how Kate helps her stepsister Meghan to break the spell that has given her the head of a sheep.

    Short and squat with matted hair and small red-rimmed eyes, the little troll was very ugly to look at....

    In a world that is forever trying to keep them apart, two very special people fight to keep their love alive.

    His notes accompany the text.

    

    The editors offer a broad selection of tales, grouped by theme and era, as well as variants of individual tales that invite cross-cultural and comparative analysis. Each group is preceded by an introduction by the editors. Selections from influenctial works of criticism range from a segment of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic essay "On Fairy Stories" to recent work by Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar; also included is a section on the illustration of fairy tales and a bibliogrpahy.

    

    A delightful marriage between contemporary art and timeless craft marks this thoroughly original yet thoroughly old-fashioned Mother Goose for needleworkers.

    Here, true to the original tales, are the stories of Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and five others set off by Vera Rosenberry's exquisite paintings in glowing colors.