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African Folk Tales

by Yoti Lane ...

Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories
A delight for readers and listeners of all ages, these 25 traditional tales from West Africa were originally accompanied by music and dance. The stories' drama and folk wisdom shine through in these captivating retellings, which are illustrated by evocative woodcut illustrations.Age-old fables explain why the leopard has no friends, how wild dogs became domesticated, and why pigs dig. Adventure ... Read more

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A delight for readers and listeners of all ages, these 25 traditional tales from West Africa were originally accompanied by music and dance. The stories' drama and folk wisdom shine through in these captivating retellings, which are illustrated by evocative woodcut illustrations.Age-old fables explain why the leopard has no friends, how wild dogs became domesticated, and why pigs dig. Adventure
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Night Train to the Stars

Beloved, enigmatic Japanese folk tales

by Kenji Miyazawa ...

Translated by John Bester ...

A night train crosses the heavens in these strange, tender tales from one of Japan’s beloved storytellers.Japanese fairy tales: enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Kenji Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ‘The Ungrateful Rat’, where a rude ... Read more

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A night train crosses the heavens in these strange, tender tales from one of Japan’s beloved storytellers.Japanese fairy tales: enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Kenji Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ‘The Ungrateful Rat’, where a rude
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Just so Stories

by Rudyard Kipling ...

Just so Stories was written by Rudyard Kipling and was first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. ... Read more

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Just so Stories was written by Rudyard Kipling and was first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
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Field Notes from an Extinction

A Novel

by Eoghan Walls ...

Fast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man’s growing humanity amidst famine and extinction.Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a 19th-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island — from the author of indie favorite The Gospel of Orla."A ... Read more

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Fast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man’s growing humanity amidst famine and extinction.Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a 19th-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island — from the author of indie favorite The Gospel of Orla."A
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Nature and Me

A guide to the joys and excitements of the outdoors

by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...

Illustrated by Tyla Mason ...

An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them.Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to enhance this time spent outside and show children how nature can be fun, ... Read more

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An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them.Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to enhance this time spent outside and show children how nature can be fun,
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How the Whale Became

and Other Stories

by Ted Hughes ...

This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the North Pole by the other animals who were jealous that she always won the annual beauty contest; the Hare ... Read more

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This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the North Pole by the other animals who were jealous that she always won the annual beauty contest; the Hare
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Nonsense

by Edward Lear ...

Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
'You elegant fowl!'Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, ... Read more

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'You elegant fowl!'Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables,
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Down The Bright Stream

by B.B. ...

Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are the last four gnomes in Britain and were first introduced to us in the Carnegie Medal-winning book, The Little Grey Men. In this charming book their story continues and we find them tucked up in their cosy home, next to the Folly, for winter. But when they're awakened from their sleep with the terrible news that the Folly is drying up, they must ... Read more

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Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are the last four gnomes in Britain and were first introduced to us in the Carnegie Medal-winning book, The Little Grey Men. In this charming book their story continues and we find them tucked up in their cosy home, next to the Folly, for winter. But when they're awakened from their sleep with the terrible news that the Folly is drying up, they must
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Ghosts

A Thai novel

by SEINEE SAOWAPHONG ...

Series series THAI MODERN CLASSICS
Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields,has his work cut out for him helping his farming relativesand convincing his lover's aristocratic parentsthat he deserves her hand.This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai societyis widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand. ... Read more

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Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields,has his work cut out for him helping his farming relativesand convincing his lover's aristocratic parentsthat he deserves her hand.This prophetic, 1953 novel about the ghosts of time and rising radicalism in Thai societyis widely considered as a masterpiece of art-for-life literature in twentieth-century Thailand.
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad ...

The "Heart of Darkness" is the English sailor's travels chronicle into a deep of Africa. You will face here not only with jungle, fever, cannibals, but also with the picture of fight between the civilization and the nature. There is the wild, irrational and powerful nature. The field of battle is the a soul of human. The reader will be cognize himself. The final goal is not only the lost station ... Read more

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The "Heart of Darkness" is the English sailor's travels chronicle into a deep of Africa. You will face here not only with jungle, fever, cannibals, but also with the picture of fight between the civilization and the nature. There is the wild, irrational and powerful nature. The field of battle is the a soul of human. The reader will be cognize himself. The final goal is not only the lost station
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Dr. No

by Ian Fleming ...

Series Book 6 - James Bond
Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. It was first published in 1958. The novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese ... Read more

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Dr. No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. It was first published in 1958. The novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese
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Umboo, the Elephant

by Howard R. Garis ...

Oh, my! But it's hot! It is just too hot for anything! cried Chako, one of the monkeys in the circus cage. It is hotter under this tent than ever it was in the jungle! Whew! and he hung by his tail and swung to and fro from a wooden bar. ... Read more

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Oh, my! But it's hot! It is just too hot for anything! cried Chako, one of the monkeys in the circus cage. It is hotter under this tent than ever it was in the jungle! Whew! and he hung by his tail and swung to and fro from a wooden bar.
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