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The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies, and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a race by a lowly tortoise. Misfortune turns to mayhem when a wolf is killed by his sweetheart's father, a sheepdog preys on his own flock, and the mouse...
2) Fables
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Tells the stories of a selfish lion, lovesick ostrich, greedy hippopotamus, vain rhinoceros, proud camel, the timid duck sisters, and others, and the lessons that they learned.
5) Animal farm
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A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government
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From realizing that there is no "right" way to live to respecting our planet and learning what really makes someone a winner, the messages at the heart of Natalie Portman's Fables are modern takes on timeless life lessons. Told with a playful, kid-friendly voice and perfectly paired with Janna Mattia's charming artwork, Portman's insightful retellings of The Tortoise and the Hare, The Three Little Pigs, and Country Mouse and City Mouse are ideal...
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2010
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The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families
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King Arthur, the legendary ruler of Britain, has fascinated generations of readers who enjoy the romance of his idylls in the ideal kingdom of Camelot, and his adventures with the Knights of the Round Table. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights brings together two volumes of Howard Pyles retellings of classic Arthurian legends, originally published in 1903 and 1905 and featuring more than 100 of his classic illustrations. In The Story of King...
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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall;...
11) La sirenita
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En el fondo del mar de agua azul como el aciano, en un castillo con muros de coral, altas vidrieras de ámbar y techos de conchas de colores, vivía el Rey del mar. Había perdido a su esposa desde hacía muchos años, y vivía con la madre, una anciana sirena...
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones de artistas de primera línea....
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Había una vez un molinero que, cuando estaba a punto de morir, llamó a sus tres hijos. A ti, que eres el mayor, te dejo el molino, dijo. A ti, que eres el mediano, te dejo el burro. Y a ti, que eres el pequeño, te dejo el gato.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones de artistas de primera línea. La redacción de los textos...
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WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD! Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost. It has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the...
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Había una vez un rey y una reina que, tras mucho tiempo intentando tener hijos, tuvieron una niña. Estaban tan contentos que dieron una fiesta magnífica a la que invitaron a siete hadas. Cada una de ellas le dio a la pequeña un don: una le dio belleza, otra buen carácter, otra...
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas ilustraciones de...
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The Grand Battle begins with the search for allies in the Northern Kindoms and ends in The Burning that will change all Owldom forever.Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones. Meanwhile, in the Southern Kingdoms, St. Aggies has fallen to the Pure Ones and they are using its resources to plan a final invasion...
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When Scheherazade marries a ruthless king known for taking a new bride each night only to have his wife killed the next morning, she comes up with a clever plan to survive. Each night, she tells the king a story. And each morning, the king postpones her execution so he can hear how it ends. Scheherazade's stories continued for one thousand and one nights. The text was first translated from Arabic into English in the early eighteenth century. In the...
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To prove his goodness, young Nyroc will renounce his name, his mother, and his inheritance to seek the holiest of relics from The Beyond the Beyond.
Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones. He flies alone, feared and despised by those who know him as Kludd's son, hunted by those whose despotism he has rejected, and haunted by ghostly creatures conjured by Nyra to lure him back to the Pure Ones. He yearns for a place he only half believes in -...
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It is a mysterious world that this selection of stories from the treasure house of Irish myths and legends describes. Here the line between the fantastical and the real is blurred: mortals and immortals live strange entwined lives, nature and high magic exist side by side. It is Ireland under its old name, Erin, a country of ancient gods with fading powers, who dwell invisible in fairy mound palaces, waiting for a chance to meddle in the affairs of...
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Phileas Fogg era un rico caballero inglés metódico y sedentario, y precisamente por eso le caía tan bien a Passepartout, su nuevo mayordomo. Tras una vida agitada, en la que había sido músico ambulante, domador en un circo, equilibrista y hasta bombero, lo único que quería Passepartout era un trabajo tranquilo. Pero Phileas Fogg tenía un defecto: le gustaban las apuestas.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda...
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Había una vez veinticinco soldaditos de plomo todos iguales: uniforme rojo, fusil al hombro y mirada fija. Solo el último era diferente: estaba sobre una sola pierna porque, cuando lo fundieron, el plomo se había terminado. Los niños que los habían recibido de regalo los pusieron todos de pie sobre la mesa.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados por magníficas...
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