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The wild swans : also includes The nightingale
A princess has eleven brothers. The twelve siblings live happily and well, until their father decides to remarry. Their new stepmother is a wicked woman, and she turns all the brothers into swans and banishes the princess from the palace. And so it is left to Elisa to endure countless hardships alone in order to save her beloved brothers from the spell. This edition also contains a new trans…
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- 9781782691228
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- 61 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- A
It's absolutely true!
By the time rumor has changed and spread the story one lost feather becomes five lovesick hens who have plucked out all their feathers. It's absolutely true! say the hens to the owls. And it is repeated throughout the barnyard and all over the village. This charming fairy tale exposes the ridiculous way rumors develop, following the account of a hen-house scandal as it grows more and more sens…
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- 0861367766
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- 23 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- Creative Character Building
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- A
The nightingale
Following on the brilliant success of The Little Match Girl and his fourth Caldecott Honor Book, The Ugly Duckling, Jerry Pinkney brings us another enchanting adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. The Nightingale is the story of a plain little bird whose beautiful songs bring her great fame, even winning her an esteemed place in the king's court. Eventually, however, after saving …
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- 9780803724648
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 30 cm
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- 398.21 PINK
The amazing paper cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen, the Danish storyteller whose fairy tales are known all over the world, was also a gifted artist. He made hundreds, perhaps thousands, of paper cuttings of swans, clowns, toy theaters, windmills, angels, and other whimsical images. Often he made the paper cuttings while telling a story, then gave them to the children listening to him. In this inspired biography, Beth Wag…
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- 9780618311095
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- 80 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 928 BRU
Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
Drawing from interviews with survivors and from meticulous research, a stirring chronicle of the bravery and dedication of the Danish Resistance during World War II discusses how many of Denmark's Jews were saved from the Holocaust.
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- 0439296293
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- 164 pages ; illustration ; 25 cm
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- 940.5 LEV
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