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2) Cinderella
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Language
English
Description
With the help of her fairy godmother, a beautiful young woman mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters attends the palace ball where she meets the prince whom she marries.
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A magnificent and richly illustrated volume--with a groundbreaking translation framed by illuminating commentary--of the most famous story collection of all time. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of The...
6) Me and you
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An urban retelling of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, told from the baby bear's perspective.
Author
Publisher
Rider & co
Pub. Date
[1931]
Language
English
Description
Noted authority discusses mystic rites and doctrines, methods of psychic training among lamas, magicians, yogis, and more. Covered are various kinds of initiations and their aims, role of the spiritual guide and choice of a master, oral instruction, spiritual exercises, "gymnastics" of respiration, many other aspects of Tibetan religious practice. David-Neel was practicing Buddhist, linguist, resident of Tibet for 14 years. 27 black-and-white illustrations....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds-including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This...
13) The three wishes
Author
Publisher
Troll
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
A very poor woodsman who is granted three wishes by a tree fairy is urged by his wife to wish for riches.
14) Puss in Boots
Series
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
A cunning cat wins for his master a castle and the hand of a princess.
Author
Series
Babar (Brunhoff) volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1960]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An orphaned baby elephant goes to live in the city with an old lady who gives him everything he wants, but eventually returns to the forest where he is crowned king of the elephants.
18) La Cenicienta
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Hymsa
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper
19) After midnight
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c1989
Language
English
Description
According to Professor Edward Derek, the only way to truly understand the psychology of fear is to be afraid...very afraid! So he invites his class home for a night of three spine-chilling stories: First, a married couple loses their heads in a haunted house; next, ravenous guard dogs prowl for cute coeds; and, finally, a psychopathic killer stalks a terrified telephone operator. But as the frightened freshman get a hands-on lesson in real fear, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A flier has [a] forced landing in the Sahara. He is met by the little Prince of Asteroid B612. The Prince tells the flier of his experiences on many planets with men, flowers, and animals--all very quaint and strange--and the conclusion of it all is: 'What is essential is invisible to the eye.'" Library Journal.