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Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian AndersenISBN 1853261009 (1-85326-100-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl. [via]
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beastby Robin McKinleyISBN 1417746637 (1-4177-4663-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast'Book summary:This much-loved retelling of the classic French tale Beauty and the Beast elicits the familiar magical charm, but is more believable and complex than the traditional story. In this version, Beauty is not as beautiful as her older sisters, who are both lovely and kind. Here, in fact, Beauty has no confidence in her appearance but takes pride in her own intelligence, her love of learning and books, and her talent in riding. She is the most competent of the three sisters, which proves essential when they are forced to retire to the country because of their father's financial ruin.
The plot follows that of the renowned legend: Beauty selflessly agrees to inhabit the Beast's castle to spare her father's life. Beauty's gradual acceptance of the Beast and the couple's deepening trust and affection are amplified in novel form. Robin McKinley's writing has the flavor of another century, and Beauty heightens the authenticity as a reliable and competent narrator.
This was McKinley's first book, written almost 20 years ago. Since that time she has been awarded the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and has delighted her fans with another retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fable, Rose Daughter. Still, McKinley's first novel has a special place in the hearts of her devoted readers, many of whom attest to relishing Beauty time and again. (Ages 11 to Adult) [via]
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- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060753102 (0-06-075310-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0064404773 (0-06-440477-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060241497 (0-06-024149-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0671604341 (0-671-60434-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060241500 (0-06-024150-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 1417746637 (1-4177-4663-7)
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- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast: ISBN 0060753102 (0-06-075310-2)
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Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, GrimmISBN 1853268984 (1-85326-898-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brothers Grimm'Book summary:Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of 'Rapunzel', 'The Goose Girl', Sleeping Beauty', 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Snow White', there are the darker tales such as 'Death's Messengers' which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling. [via]
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The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Sheila Black, H.C. Andersen, Richard Walz, Robyn Officer, Arlene Klemushin, Richard Bernal, Erin Augenstine, Karen Pritchett, Andrew BabanovskyISBN 0762401850 (0-7624-0185-0)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Classic Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales'Book summary:Including some of the popular tales by Hans Christian Andersen, this children''s classic is illustrated b y a team of seven artists who use varying styles throughout the book. The stories are retold by William King. ' [via]
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The Complete Fairy Talesby H.C. AndersenISBN 1853268992 (1-85326-899-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Fairy Tales'Book summary:Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 168 tales, and among the favourites are 'The Red Shoes', 'The Mermaid', 'The Real Princess', 'The Emperor's New Clothes', The Tinder Box' and of course 'The Ugly Duckling'. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Jacob Grimm, John B. Gruelle, Jack David ZipesISBN 0833515055 (0-8335-1505-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm'Book summary:A new translation of 239 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Also includes a listing of their oral and/or literary sources. [via]
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Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimmby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob GrimmISBN 0833515063 (0-8335-1506-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, James Stern, Josef ScharlISBN 0710082053 (0-7100-8205-3)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsisterby Gregory Maguire, Bill SandersonISBN 0060987529 (0-06-098752-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'Book summary:Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. Plain but smart Iris and her sister, Ruth, a hulking simpleton, are dazed and terrified as their mother, Margarethe, urges them into the strange Dutch streets. Within days, purposeful Margarethe has secured the family a place in the home of an aspiring painter, where for a short time, they find happiness.
But this is Cinderella, after all, and tragedy is inevitable. When a wealthy tulip speculator commissions the painter to capture his blindingly lovely daughter, Clara, on canvas, Margarethe jumps at the chance to better their lot. "Give me room to cast my eel spear, and let follow what may," she crows, and the Fisher family abandons the artist for the upper-crust Van den Meers.
When Van den Meer's wife dies during childbirth, the stage is set for Margarethe to take over the household and for Clara to adopt the role of "Cinderling" in order to survive. What follows is a changeling adventure, and of course a ball, a handsome prince, a lost slipper, and what might even be a fairy godmother. In a single magic night, the exquisite and the ugly swirl around in a heated mix:
Everything about this moment hovers, trembles, all their sweet, unreasonable hopes on view before anything has had the chance to go wrong. A stepsister spins on black and white tiles, in glass slippers and a gold gown, and two stepsisters watch with unrelieved admiration. The light pours in, strengthening in its golden hue as the sun sinks and the evening approaches. Clara is as otherworldly as the Donkeywoman, the Girl-Boy. Extreme beauty is an affliction...
But beyond these familiar elements, Maguire's second novel becomes something else altogether--a morality play, a psychological study, a feminist manifesto, or perhaps a plain explanation of what it is to be human. Villains turn out to be heroes, and heroes disappoint. The story's narrator wryly observes, "In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats." --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister:
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Deerskinby Robin McKinleyISBN 044100069X (0-441-00069-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deerskin'Book summary:[via]From the award-winning author of Sunshine comes a novel that "will involve readers from the first to the last page with its sheer beauty, its anguish, agony, horror, despair, and, ultimately, its joy" (Kliatt).
As Princess Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her breathtaking beauty she is the mirror image of her mother, the queen. But this seeming blessing forces her to flee for safety from her father's lust and madness. With her loyal dog Ash at her side, Lissar will unlock a door to a world of magic, where she will find the key to her survival-and an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. -
El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9870000746 (987-00-0074-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 9500400480 (950-04-0048-0)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Saint-ExuperyISBN 9562014320 (956-201-432-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Fairy Talesby H.C. Andersen, Marte Hvam Hult, Jack David ZipesISBN 1593082606 (1-59308-260-6)
Softcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:[via]Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Who has not laughed at the emperors new clothes, thrilled to the song of the nightingale, or sympathized with the ugly duckling? In the 170 years since they first began to appear, Hans Christian Andersens Fairy Tales have entranced and bewitched millions of readers, adults and children alike.
Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Andersons tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things.
Here are all of Andersens collected tales, manysuch as The Little Mermaid, The Red Shoes, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier still popular through modern adaptations, and others, including The Flying Trunk and The Most Incredible Thing, well worth rediscovering.Jack Zipes is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. A specialist in folklore and fairy tales, he has authored numerous books of criticism over the last thirty years and edited several major anthologies, including the Norton Anthology of Childrens Literature (2005).Marte Hvam Hult holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian languages and literatures from the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Framing a National Narrative: The Legend Collections of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and a forthcoming translation of Asbjørnsens Huldreeventyr. -
Fairy Talesby Berlie Doherty, Jane RayISBN 0763609978 (0-7636-0997-8)
Hardcover, Candlewick Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Berlie Doherty, author of many books for young people, including Carnegie Medal-winner Dear Nobody, says fairy tales "are enchanted dreams. We remember them as if they had been sung to us while we were under the spell of a long deep sleep." And according to acclaimed picture-book illustrator Jane Ray, "fairy tales are the earth beneath our feet, giving us roots and helping us find our place in the world, but they also offer a glimpse of the magical and the enchanted." With two such eloquently mystical creators at the helm, any collection of fairy tales is bound to be magical. Sure enough, this team's magnificent Fairy Tales glimmers and shines, giving new life to traditional favorites such as "Beauty and the Beast," "Cinderella," "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp," and "Hansel and Gretel." Doherty's retellings are respectful of the originals, while incorporating her own strong, vibrant voice. Ray's watercolor, ink, and collage illustrations, surrounding the gold-framed text, are truly stunning, in exotic colors and exquisite tapestry-style patterns. Characters seem to come from all parts of the world--appropriately enough, since the stories have "echoes in many different cultures." The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault would be proud. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Fairy Talesby Publications International Ltd, Brian ConwayISBN 0785348689 (0-7853-4868-9)
Hardcover, Publications International
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:padded vinyl cover with square hole through which shows a cat reading a book; 4 classic tales including rumplestiltskin; cinderella; hansel and gretel and jack and the beanstock; beautiful, colorful illustrations; [via]
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Fairy Talesby Sulamith WulfingISBN 1885394403 (1-885394-40-3)
Hardcover, Amber Lotus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:This beautiful book includes a series of illustrations by Sulamith Wulfing which accompany stories about fairies and other related poems. [via]
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Fairy Talesby Tiina Nunnally, Jackie Wullschlager, H.C. AndersenISBN 0713996412 (0-7139-9641-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:A new selection of 30 tales to mark the 200 year anniversary of Andersen's birth in 2005. Tiina Nunnally's sparkling translation captures the rawness and immediacy of Andersen's style, for the first time enabling English readers to be as startled and amazed as his original readers were, and revealing the unique inventiveness of Andersen's genius. At a time when children's stories were formal, moral and didactic, Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized the genre, giving an anarchic twist to traditional folklore and creating a huge number of utterly original stories that sprang directly from his imagination. From the exuberant early stories such as The Emperor's New Clothes', though poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid' and The Ugly Duckling', to the darker, more subversive later tales written for adults, the stories included here are endlessly experimental, both humorous and irreverent, sorrowful and strange. This book beautifully illustrated with a selection of Andersen's amazing paper cut-outs - will bring these magical tales to life for readers of any age. [via]
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Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Brothers Grimm, Edgar Taylor, Amanda HarveyISBN 0805031278 (0-8050-3127-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales'Book summary:Thirty-seven selected stories from the Brothers Grimm, taken from the first English translation of 1823, are newly illustrated in black and white, with eight full-color plates by the artist from Stormy Weather. [via]
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Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen/Classic Illustrated Editionby Russell Ash, Bernard Higton, H.C. AndersenISBN 0811802302 (0-8118-0230-2)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen/Classic Illustrated Edition'Book summary:The entrancing world of toys, animals, magical kingdoms, and mystical beings is magnificently brought to life by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in this, the fourth title in Chronicle Books' extremely successful Classic Illustrated Edition series. 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 Clothes
- The Little Mermaid
- The Little Match Girl
- The Nightingale
- The Princess and the Pea
- The Steadfast Tin Soldier
- Thumbelina
- The Tinderbox
- The Ugly Duckling
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Elizabeth Dalton, Brothers Grimm, Ludwig Emil GrimmISBN 1593080565 (1-59308-056-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:Dwarves, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, and magicians ... all can be found in the enchanting fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Twenty-two of the Grimms' best stories are brought to life in this deluxe edition, from well-known favorites like "Rapunzel," "Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Hansel and Grethel," to lesser-known treasures such as "The Valiant Tailor" and "The Frog Prince." Arthur Rackham's extraordinary interpretations are beautifully reproduced here in 21 full-color plates and 28 black-and-white drawings that lavishly embellish the pages. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 1853261017 (1-85326-101-7)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane's charming line drawings. [via]
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Grimm's Fairy Talesby Museum Quilts Publications Staff, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 1897954956 (1-897954-95-6)
Hardcover, M Q Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Fairy Tales'Book summary:A collection of fairy tales collected in Germany by two brothers. [via]
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Grimm's Grimmestby Maria TatarISBN 0811850463 (0-8118-5046-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Grimmest'Book summary:A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."
The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Grimm's Household Storiesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane, Walter CraneISBN 0831745827 (0-8317-4582-7)
Hardcover, Wh Smith Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimm's Household Stories'Book summary:Includes such well-known titles as "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Sleeping Beauty" as well as lesser known tales such as "The Little Farmer," and "The Golden Bird." Illustrations are by Walter Crane. [via]
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Grimms' Fairy TalesISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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- Grimms' Fairy Tales: ISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
Softcover, Echo Library - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0804901686 (0-8049-0168-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Grimm's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0681403128 (0-681-40312-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - Grimms' Fairy Tales: ISBN 1404305378 (1-4043-0537-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
- Grimms' Fairy Tales: ISBN 1406821411 (1-4068-2141-1)
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Grimms' Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby Smithmark Staff, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm K. GrimmISBN 0831766972 (0-8317-6697-2)
Hardcover, Smithmark Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales'Book summary:Few writers can claim to have contributed to the world's store of folklore, but Hans Christian Andersen, the shy and reclusive Danish writer, was one of them. Inspired by the great tradition of The Arabian Nights and the Brothers Grimm, his magical stories continue to delight, enchant and occasionally terrify. This facsimile of the 1913 edition contain 17 of his most famous tales, including 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Snow Queen' and 'The Ugly Duckling'. The original illustrations by William Heath Robinson capture all the magic of the text making this the perfect way to enjoy this master storyteller..............from jacketflap.com [via]
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The Grimms' German Folk Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Francis P. Magoun, Grimm Brothers, Alexander Haggerty KrappeISBN 0809303566 (0-8093-0356-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Homby H. C. AndersenISBN 158567737X (1-58567-737-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom'Book summary:[via]The stories of Hans Christian Andersen are known all over the world and he is one of the most translated authors of all time. Andersen's fame rests on his fairy tales and stories, written between 1835 and 1872, among the best known of which are "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Snow Queen," "The Nightingale," and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier." With these fairy tales, inspired by the great tradition of the Arabian Nights and by the brothers Grimm, Andersen became known as the father of the modern fairytale. Moreover, Andersen's works were original. Only twelve of his 156 known fairy stories drew on folktales. This complete collection of Andersen's stories is based on Jean Hersholt's classic translation.
Andersen's stories have been widely illustrated by some of the best-known illustrators of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in particular those of the Edwardian period - the Golden Age of illustration - including W. Heath Robinson, Arthur Rackham, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Kay Nielsen and Edmund Dulac. Around ninety of the stories are illustrated with reproductions of original illustrations from classic Edwardian to contemporary illustrators. In addition, there are thirteen newly commissioned illustrations for some of Andersen's less well-known stories.
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- Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom: ISBN 071230682X (0-7123-0682-X)
Hardcover, British Library Board - Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom: ISBN 158567737X (1-58567-737-X)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
- Hans Christian Andersen: Cuentos Fantasticos y De Animales, Cuentos Humoristicos y Sentimentales, La Sirenita, El Traje Nuevo Del Emperador / Fantastic and Animal Stories, Hom: ISBN 071230682X (0-7123-0682-X)
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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Talesby H. C. AndersenISBN 083171350X (0-8317-1350-X)
Hardcover, Gallery Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales'Book summary:Eight tales chosen by the illustrator, winner of the 1990 Hans Christian Andersen Medal for lifetime achievement in the field of illustration for children. [via]
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Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, William King, Leon BaxterISBN 1561387657 (1-56138-765-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:[via]Lisbeth Zwerger is one of the worlds preeminent childrens book artists, and one of the most original interpreters of Hans Christian Andersens classic fairytales. This handsome collection, originally published in 1991 now returns in celebration of Hans Christian Andersens 200th birthday. It includes eleven favorite stories, such as "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperors New Clothes," as well as lesser-known but equally wonderful stories, all featuring Ms. Zwergers distinctively elegant, witty illustrations. This superb anthology is bound to become a treasured part of every childs library.
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- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0698400356 (0-698-40035-6)
Hardcover, Minedition - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0887081827 (0-88708-182-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0804901694 (0-8049-0169-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0735813949 (0-7358-1394-9)
Hardcover, North South Books - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 1561387657 (1-56138-765-7)
Hardcover, Courage Books
- Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: ISBN 0698400356 (0-698-40035-6)
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 2070105024 (2-07-010502-4)
Hardcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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- Le Petit Prince: ISBN 2070513289 (2-07-051328-9)
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Le Petit Princeby De SaintISBN 2070334538 (2-07-033453-8)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petit Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Little Princeby Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Katherine WoodsISBN 0783815484 (0-7838-1548-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Prince'Book summary:You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"
The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor
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The Little Princeby Irene Testot-Ferry, A. ExuperyISBN 1853261580 (1-85326-158-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Prince'Book summary:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]More editions of The Little Prince:
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Mirror Mirrorby Gregory MaguireISBN 0060988657 (0-06-098865-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mirror Mirror'Book summary:A brilliant achievement.
Boston Herald
Entertaining&profound&.A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain.
Christian Science MonitorGregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale: Mirror Mirror. Setting his story amid the cultural, political and artistic whirlwind of Renaissance Italyand casting the notorious Lucrezia Borgia as the Evil QueenMaguire and Mirror Mirror will enthrall a wide array of book lovers ranging from adult fans of Harry Potter to readers of the sophisticated stories of Angela Carter.
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Mirror Mirror Intlby Gregory MaguireISBN 0060594535 (0-06-059453-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardustby Neil Gaiman, Charles VessISBN 1401211909 (1-4012-1190-9)
Hardcover, Vertigo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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Princess Brideby William GoldmanISBN 0345348036 (0-345-34803-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess Bride'Book summary:The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf. --Nona Vero [via]
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- Princess Bride: ISBN 0345418263 (0-345-41826-3)
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Princess Bride: ISBN 0808586998 (0-8085-8699-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Princess Bride: ISBN 0151730857 (0-15-173085-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Princess Bride: ISBN 0899668097 (0-89966-809-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Princess Bride: ISBN 0345348036 (0-345-34803-6)
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- Princess Bride: ISBN 0345418263 (0-345-41826-3)
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Rose Daughterby Robin McKinleyISBN 0688154395 (0-688-15439-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose Daughter'Book summary:"It is the heart of this place, and it is dying," says the Beast. And it is true; the center of the Beast's palace, the glittering glasshouse that brings Beauty both comfort and delight in her strange new environment, is filled with leafless brown rosebushes. But deep within this enchanted world, new life, at once subtle and strong, is about to awaken. Twenty years ago Robin McKinley enthralled readers with the power of Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist retells the story of Beauty and the Beast again--but in a totally new way, with fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. In Rose Daughter she has written her finest and most deeply felt work, a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love. [via]
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Spindle's Endby Robin McKinleyISBN 0441008658 (0-441-00865-8)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spindle's End'Book summary:Renowned fantasy writer Robin McKinley, author of the lush "Beauty and the Beast" retellings Beauty and Rose Daughter, has produced another re-mastered fairy tale, this time about the dreamy Sleeping Beauty. Much like in the original story, the infant princess, here named Rosie, is cursed by an evil fairy to die on her 21st birthday by pricking her finger on a spindle. That same day, Rosie is whisked away into hiding by a peasant fairy who raises her and conceals her royal identity. From that point on, McKinley's plot and characterization become wildly inventive. She imagines Rosie growing up into a strapping young woman who despises her golden hair, prefers leather breeches to ball gowns, and can communicate with animals. And on that fateful birthday, with no help from a prince, Rosie saves herself and her entire sleeping village from destruction, although she pays a realistic price. In a final master stroke, McKinley cleverly takes creative license when the spell-breaking kiss (made famous in "Sleeping Beauty") comes from a surprising source and is bestowed upon the character least expected.
Although the entire novel is well written, McKinley's characterization of Rosie's animal friends is exceptionally fine. Observations such as "...foxes generally wanted to talk about butterflies and grasses and weather for a long time while they sized you up," will spark reader's imaginations. It won't be hard to persuade readers of any age to become lost in this marvelous tale; the difficult part will be convincing them to come back from McKinley's country, where "the magic... was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk dust...." Highly recommended. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Stardustby Neil Gaiman, Charles VessISBN 156389470X (1-56389-470-X)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:The versatile Neil Gaiman is best known for scripting upmarket graphic novels, most famously the lengthy Sandman cycle. Stardust was a joint project with artist Charles Vess, a short novel of fairyland enriched by at least one sumptuous painting on every page. This edition contains only the (slightly rewritten) text, alas. Gaiman's story looks back to days before commercial genre fantasy, to Lord Dunsany's and Hope Mirrlees's visions of Faerie as a misty country which is at the same time temptingly close and "over the hills and far away". The simple tale is new but has a twice-told familiarity, crafted like a mosaic from many traditional elements. Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest. Stardust is by turns knowing, poetic, comic and grisly and exudes considerable charm. If only we had those full-colour Vess paintings too. --David Langford [via]
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- Stardust: ISBN 0060934719 (0-06-093471-9)
Softcover, Perennial - Stardust: ISBN 0061142026 (0-06-114202-6)
Softcover, Perennial - Stardust: ISBN 0061240486 (0-06-124048-6)
Softcover, Harper Entertainment - Stardust: ISBN 0380804557 (0-380-80455-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Stardust: ISBN 0380977281 (0-380-97728-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Stardust: ISBN 8484313212 (84-8431-321-2)
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- Stardust: ISBN 0060934719 (0-06-093471-9)
Talesby R. P. Keigwin, H.C. Andersen, Gustav HjortlundISBN 8770100918 (87-7010-091-8)
Hardcover, Flensted
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Tales of Hans Christian Andersenby Joel Stewart, Naomi LewisISBN 0763625159 (0-7636-2515-9)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Hans Christian Andersen'Book summary:Rediscover thirteen of Andersen's best-loved tales in this definitive edition highlighted with introductions by an esteemed translator and illuminated with fanciful artwork from an acclaimed illustrator.
Open the pages of this magnificent volume and enter the fairy-tale realm of Hans Christian Andersen! In a playful design that echoes Andersen's passion for miniature theaters, artist Joel Stewart depicts such well-known characters as the pea-sensitive Princess and the unclothed Emperor as actors on a timeless stage. Expert commentary by Naomi Lewis offers historical and biographical points of interest, revealing that "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is the first fairy tale ever to feature a nonhuman hero (now a hallmark of children¹s literature) and that "The Ugly Duckling," considered Andersen's autobiography, is a tale he especially loved to read aloud. In thirteen of his most enduring tales, savor the singular voice of this literary giant the "washerwoman's crazy son" who became one of the best-known storytellers of all time. [via]More editions of Tales of Hans Christian Andersen:
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 0060745908 (0-06-074590-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wicked'Book summary:This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Wicked: ISBN 0061351393 (0-06-135139-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Wicked: ISBN 0060391448 (0-06-039144-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Wicked: ISBN 0613621697 (0-613-62169-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Wicked: ISBN 060631184X (0-606-31184-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Wicked: ISBN 0786206438 (0-7862-0643-8)
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Cuentos Completos / Complete Storiesby Hans C. Andersen, Enrique Bernardez, Vilhelm Pedersen, Lorenz FrlichISBN 8437622174 (84-376-2217-4)
Hardcover, Catedra Ediciones
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La Princesa Prometidaby William GoldmanISBN 8427030975 (84-270-3097-5)
Softcover, Martinez Roca S A Ediciones
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El Principito / The Little Princeby Antonie De SaintISBN 9681500830 (968-15-0083-0)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Principito / The Little Prince'Book summary:Uno de los clásicos de la literatura para niños, que en el criterio de muchos debe ser leído y comentado por un adulto, pero también un indiscutible libro para adultos. Mediante la figura de un principito que vive en su propio asteroide, el autor trata sobre los valores humanos y enseñanzas para la vida. [via]
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El principito/ The Little Princeby Antoine De ExuperyISBN 9706660984 (970-666-098-4)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Tomo
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Stardustby ERNEST RIERAISBN 1594970971 (1-59497-097-1)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stardust'Book summary:De Féerie, le pays magique, les habitants du petit village de Wall savent peu de choses. Il faut dire qu'un grand mur les en séparent. Un mur dans lequel est ouvert une brèche, une brèche bien gardée, par laquelle ils n'ont droit de passer qu'une fois l'an, le jour de la grande foire de Wall. C'est ce jour-là, justement, que le jeune Tristram Thorn, décidé à conquérir le cSur de sa belle, part pour le pays de fée afin de lui ramener une étoile filante. Mais dans un pays magique, rien n'est comme ailleurs. Les distances sont immenses, on y croise nains et licornes, des chasseurs d'éclairs naviguent sur des bateaux volants et l'on est jamais à l'abri d'un mauvais sort qui pourra vous transformer en arbre, en chèvre ou en rat. Un monde plein de dangers et de merveilles que Tristram est loin d'imaginer, comme il est loin d'imaginer que son étoile filante est une belle et pure jeune fille, dont la présence ici-bas va éveiller la concupiscence des sept seigneurs de Sromhold comme de quelques vilaines sorcières...
Neil Gaiman est aussi à l'aise dans la BD (Sandman), que dans le roman (Neverwhere). Un talent inépuisable qu'il confirme une fois de plus ici en revisitant avec bonheur l'univers des contes de fées. À la fois drôle, merveilleux et volontairement naïf, Stardust est une réussite. --Georges Louhans [via]
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Le Petit Princeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 2070408507 (2-07-040850-7)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Petite Prince'Book summary:Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Il Piccolo Principeby Antoine De Saint-ExuperyISBN 8845247414 (88-452-4741-4)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Piccolo Principe'Book summary:«Gli uomini hanno delle stelle che non sono le stesse. Per gli uni, quelli che viaggiano, le stelle sono delle guide. Per altri non sono che delle piccole luci. Per altri, che sono dei sapienti, sono dei problemi. Per il mio uomo daffari erano delloro. Ma tutte queste stelle stanno zitte. Tu, tu avrai delle stelle come nessuno haÉ» «Che cosa vuoi dire?» «Quando tu guarderai il cielo, la notte, visto che io abiterò in una di esse, visto che io riderò in una di esse, allora sarà per te come se tutte le stelle ridessero. Tu avrai, tu solo, delle stelle che sanno ridere!» [via]
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