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English
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"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...
4) The rescuers
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
c[2011]
Language
English
Description
Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Peter, an eight-year-old London boy with neglectful parents and a distant nanny, is transformed into a cat after rescuing a stray, Jennie, from being hit by a car, Jennie takes care of him despite her contempt for humans.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a robber steals his grandmother's musical coffee mill, Kasperl and his best friend Seppel try to catch the robber, who enlists the help of his wicked magician friend, Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It's 5pm on New Year's Eve in the Villa Nightmare, and as Shadow Sorcery Minister Beelzebub Preposteror's thumb-striking clock counts down each hour with an "Ouch!", Minister Preposteror draws closer to missing his midnight deadline forfulfilling his annual quota of evil deeds and being "foreclosed." Up against a tight deadline and threats from His Hellish Excellency, the Minister of Pitch Darkness himself, Preposteror has all but given up when the...
16) Thirteen
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen picture stories of a magic show, a sea disaster, and other dramas develop separately but simultaneously.
Author
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Mary's father puts her beloved cat, Thomasina, to sleep, Mary stops speaking to him and becomes gravely ill until Lori, a woman rumored to be a witch, restores Thomasina to health and Thomasina saves Mary.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"All of Us is a collective history of the world, told from an uncommon point of view. Written in the first-person plural, All of Us is a book of our history, emphasizing our unity as a species, beginning with the birth of our planet and our common origins in Africa, and describing how we came to be who we are in all our numerous guises. As hunter-gatherers and nomads, inventors of tools, farmers and breeders, we evolved in various ways, influenced...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Just as Thirteen rewrote the rules of the story, Arm in Arm rewrites the rules of riddles, tongue twisters, puns, and performance-based play, or rather, throws all rules out the window. Readers beware: This book cannot be skimmed! Some pages require turning the book completely around, 360 degrees. A magnifying glass may also be useful. It is a book for kids of all ages"--
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