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Product Description: Northwest WalesâOld Gwyneddâis one of the most mythic parts of Britain, and if you dig beneath the surface of modern life you will find stories whose roots go back more than 2,000 years. The legends and folktales that have survived are windows into the worlds of our ancestors...read more
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9780752499833 | Trafalgar Square, December 1, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Northwest WalesâOld Gwyneddâis one of the most mythic parts of Britain, and if you dig beneath the surface of modern life you will find stories whose roots go back more than 2,000 years.
A retelling of the West African tale about the creation of the world and all its different peoples.
Paperback:
9781847806529 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, May 15, 2015, cover price $9.99
9781845075149 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 28, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the West African tale about the creation of the world and all its different peoples.
When a traveller in the forest knocks at a lonely cottage, a scowling woman appears and says he can sleep on the floor, but declares that she hasn't a morsel of food in the place, which prompts him to make his specialty--nail soup!
Hardcover:
9781845074791 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, June 11, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When a traveller in the forest knocks at a lonely cottage, a scowling woman appears and says he can sleep on the floor, but declares that she hasn't a morsel of food in the place, which prompts him to make his specialty--nail soup!
Paperback:
9781847800299 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, June 1, 2009, cover price $7.95
Hardcover:
9788498010916 | Italian edition edition (Blume, November 30, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Every day Jacinto goes out to the fields to work, and each day his wife stays at home working in the cottage, but when Jacinto begins to feel he's doing all the work, they swap chores.
Hardcover:
9788498011661 | Italian edition edition (Blume, October 1, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Jack stands up to Old Man Death and stuffs him into the shell of a hazelnut, he thinks he has done a good thing, but he soon finds out a powerful lesson about life and death, in a story based on a Scottish folktale.
When Jack meets Old Man Death coming towards his cottage, he realises at once what's up. 'You're not taking my old mother!' he cries, and hits out at Death with his fists. With each punch, Death gets smaller and smaller, until Jack is able to squeeze him inside a hazelnut shell. But, then the trouble begins.
Hardcover:
9781845070816 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Jack stands up to Old Man Death and stuffs him into the shell of a hazelnut, he thinks he has done a good thing, but he soon finds out a powerful lesson about life and death, in a story based on a Scottish folktale.
Paperback:
9781845072773 | New edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, January 1, 2007), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: When Jack meets Old Man Death coming towards his cottage, he realises at once what's up.
Every day Shon goes out to the fields to work, and Sian, his wife stays at home working in the cottage. Shon begins to feel he's doing all the work, and starts to grumble. 'All right!' Sian says. 'Tomorrow I'll go out and do your work and you can stay at home and do mine.' The hilarious events that follow are told with stylishly-funny artwork.
Hardcover:
9781845073749 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, May 28, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Shon begins to feel like he does all the hard work out in the fields, so he and his wife, Sian, switch jobs for the day, in this story based on an English folktale.
Hardcover:
9780711219571, titled "King With Horse's Ears" | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: King Mark has a secret: he has horse's ears.
9781845072407, titled "King With Horse's Ears" | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: King Mark has a secret: He has horse's ears.
Paperback:
9781845073091, titled "The King With Horse's Ears" | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, February 1, 2005, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: King Mark has a secret that he does not want anyone else to know.
Hardcover:
9788489396920 | Italian edition edition (Blume, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An anthology of twelve traditional tales from around the world includes stories of magic, bravery, guile, death, and rebirth that center around a tree, from the Welsh oak and the Nepalese rhododendron to the New Guinea coconut and the weeping willow of Japan.
Product Description: This picture book tells how the first specks of life grew and changed until the whole Earth was filled with extraordinary plants and creatures. Combining the storyteller's skill with the scientist's understanding and the artist's imagination, "Life Story" brings the story of evolution within the reach of younger children...read more
Paperback:
9780711220430 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: This picture book tells how the first specks of life grew and changed until the whole Earth was filled with extraordinary plants and creatures.
Hardcover:
9780711218635 | Gardners Books, May 2, 2002, cover price $21.40 | About this edition: Trees are symbols of life itself.
Paperback:
9781845072681 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, May 1, 2004, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Trees are symbols of life itself.
9780711218796 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Trees are symbols of life itself.
Describes the creation of the universe, galaxies, sun, solar system, earth, moon, and first life forms.
Paperback:
9780711214439 | Big edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Describes the creation of the universe, galaxies, sun, solar system, earth, moon, and first life forms.
9781845071844 | Big edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $19.95
9780711213128 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The story of the origins of the Earth.
9781845071851 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The story of the origins of the Earth.
When the world was being born, only rough and crabby Crocodile Man possessed the gift of fire, and he was unwilling to share it, so Bird Woman thinks of a plan to trick Crocodile Man into sharing fire.
School and Library:
9780316543149 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When the world was being born, only rough and crabby Crocodile Man possessed the gift of fire, and he was unwilling to share it, so Bird Woman thinks of a plan to trick Crocodile Man into sharing fire.
A retelling of the West African tale about the creation of the world and all its different peoples
Hardcover:
9780803714779 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1993, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: A retelling of the West African tale about the creation of the world and all its different peoples
Hardcover:
9780316488945 | Little Brown & Co, March 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An adventurous clownfish leaves the safety of her anemone host to go exploring and encounters colorful friends and enemies around the coral reef
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