She gets her chance after making a deal with an evil sea witch, but something’s fishy! Can Flounder, Sebastian, and Scuttle help make the little mermaid’s dream come true? Find out in this full-color retelling of Disney’s classic film, The Little Mermaid.

    This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.

    Acclaimed writer, editor, and publisher Armand Eisen brings together timeless childhood favorites in this one-of-a-kind anthology, a perfect bedside companion ready to be picked up again and again.

    Living in homes built out of tumbleweeds and saguaro ribs (from the fallen giant cacti), the first two javelinas are soon running from the hungry coyote, who had hoped to eat them with red chile sauce. And where do they go for shelter? Why, to their wise sister's house, made strong with adobe bricks. This clever and humorous tale is sure to delight children of all ages, especially those familiar with the Southwest. Dressed in cowboy duds and prepared for life in the rugged desert, these characters are more than any coyote bargained for.

    But her prison is far from ordinary, and the story of their relationship becomes a tale of romance that has delighted readers for more than a century. Illustrated.

    A search throughout the kingdom appears to be fruitless until the lovely Rosamund appears at the palace. She is intelligent and wealthy, as well as beautiful — certainly his equal, Raphael thinks. But what does the mysterious Rosamund think?

    Every day Sukey wakes at dawn to work in the garden. All her step-pa ever does is watch her and yell if she so much as stops to fan herself. Sukey's ma calls him Mister Jones. Sukey prefers the name Mister Hard-Times. One day, Sukey runs away to her secret place by the ocean. There, she calls up Mama Jo, a beautiful black mermaid. Mama Jo's got a surprise for Sukey; a magical kingdom beneath the sea without time or pain. But it's also without people. Is it really better than the world above?

    Gods disguised as beggars and beasts, animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues, sagacious jesters and magical storytellers, wise counselors and foolish kings--all inhabit a fabular world, yet one that is also firmly grounded in everyday life. Here is an indispensable guide to India's ageless folklore tradition.With black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

    This updated 3rd edition for easy piano features 60 Disney favorites, including new selections from Tangled, Frozen and much more. Songs include: The Bare Necessities * Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Cruella De Vil * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * He's a Tramp * I See the Light * I've Got No Strings * Let It Go * Mickey Mouse March * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Under the Sea * When You Wish Upon a Star * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah * and more.

    

    31 full-color illustrations.

    মোট ছয়টি গল্প রয়েছে।কুচ্ছিৎ প্যাঁকারু (The Ugly Duckling)অনুবাদঃ Buddhadeva Boseরাজার নতুন পোশাক (The Emperor's New Clothes)অনুবাদঃ Hayat Mamudনববর্ষে মৃত কিশোরী (The Little Match Girl)অনুবাদঃ Hayat Mamudতুষার রানি (The Snow Queen)অনুবাদঃ Abdun Noorছোট্ট জলকন্যা (The Little Mermaid)অনুবাদঃ Buddhadeva Boseমায়া তোরঙ (The Flying Trunk)অনুবাদঃ Abdun Noor

    . . Those words conjure up the aura of timeless children's stories, the kind of tales told in our comprehensive line of Children's Classics. Accompanied with exquisite illustrations specially commissioned for this line, each book is a hardcover, elegant little treasure with a deluxe four-color bronzed jacket. At $6.95, they are an affordable answer for first-class gift giving and collecting. And to make them even more attractive to your customers, we offer a variety of assortment and display options.

    Like all stories in the oral tradition, the Rabbit stories amuse, entertain, and educate. Full color.

    Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance. In this book she explores how Perrault, the Grimms, and others reshaped fairy tales to produce conciliatory literary texts that dedicate themselves to the project of socializing the child.

    And so begins Dom DeLuise's hilarious retelling of this famous fairytale, as the headstrong young heroine leaves her parents' home without permission to go for a walk in the woods. The bears, epicures one and all, are out for a walk while their pasta e fagioli cools, and return to discover the mess created by Goldilocks as she makes herself at home. Delightfully illustrated by Christopher Santoro, DeLuise's illustration partner on other picture books.

    Beautifully illustrated with charming turn of the century pictures by such notable artists as Arthur Rackham, Maxwell Armfield, and Edmund Dulac, this stunning book is a visual feast for children and adults alike. This collection contains the following stories:The Emperor's New ClothesThe Little MermaidThe Little Match GirlThe NightingaleThe Princess and the PeaThe Steadfast Tin SoldierThumbelinaThe TinderboxThe Ugly Duckling

    A collection of the very best of feminist fairytales including such authors as Maeve Binchey, Zoe Fairbairns, Ivy Bannister, Mary Dorcey, Leland Bardwell and Mairide Woods amongst others.

    For children, what better way than beautiful comic art to bring them back to reading and the love of books?In this volume:The Selfish Giant won't let the children play in his garden. The dire consequences make him see the light.The Star Child lets his uniqueness and fair looks fill him with vanity, cruelty and haughtiness...until he meets his beggarwoman mother.

    After a poor harvest, two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly.

    The sun and the wind test their strength by seeing which of them can force a man to remove his cloak.

    But what really happens then? The unique stories in this book, collected from around the world, provide the answer. They portray men and women at midlife, and offer timeless wisdom for surviving - and growing - in this often turbulent time. This expanded edition of the popular, international classic contains further commentary, especially useful for a post 9/11 world."These are tales of the surprising twists and turns of life that occur between the loss of youthful magic and the gaining of elder's wisdom - delightfully told by a wise and witty psychiatrist." June Singer, Ph.D., author of Boundaries of the Soul and Seeing through the Visible World."This book contains storytelling at its best. The tales can guide the reader through the trials and tribulations of this time by shining a light into the darkness." Robert A. Johnson, author of He and She.

    Chinen's search led him to centuries-old stories from the oral tradition. These stories tell what happens in the "ever after", when the Prince goes bald and the Princesses has a midlife crisis. They portray middle-aged men and women facing the issues of midlife: the loss of ideals; gender differences; dealing with crisis; aging and mortality; and the desire for renewal. Listeners will find that many midlife crisis are universal and timeless and that their ultimate resolutions as described in these stories guide them through the peaks and valleys of midlife.

    A lonely princess longs for the company of two cats that are embroidered into the tapestries on the tower room walls.

    The author has preserved the oral tradition of the Lakota nation by setting down the tales that she herself heard as a child from her father, Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe. Illustrated.

    Princess Elena, lonely for a mother, persuades her father to let her choose the woman the he marries.

    From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary stories, full of strange delights for readers of any age."Forbidden Journeys is not only a darkly entertaining book to read for the fantasies and anti-fantasies told, but also is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies."—United Press International"A service to feminists, to Victorian Studies, to children's literature and to children."—Beverly Lyon Clark, Women's Review of Books"These are stories to laugh over, cheer at, celebrate, and wince at. . . . Forbidden Journeys is a welcome reminder that rebellion was still possible, and the editors' intelligent and fascinating commentary reveals ways in which these stories defied the Victorian patriarchy."—Allyson F. McGill, Belles Lettres

    In this timeless story of love, patience, and courage, the king's beautiful daughter Elisa vows to break the evil spell that has turned her 11 brothers into swans. Full-color illustrations.