Truly Grim Tales

Truly Grim Tales PDF Author: Priscilla Galloway
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 9780440227281
Category : Children's stories, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Based on the well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen, these retellings will intrigue and disturb readers. From a futuristic "Little Red Riding Hood", in which giant clams and carnivorous beasts stalk humans, to the real reason why the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" needs to eat human bones to a version of "Snow White" told from the wicked stepmother's point of view, fans of fairy and folk tales will find much to interest them. An ALA Best Book for Young Readers and an ALA Quick Pick.

Truly Grim Tales

Truly Grim Tales PDF Author: Priscilla Galloway
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 9780440227281
Category : Children's stories, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Based on the well-known fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen, these retellings will intrigue and disturb readers. From a futuristic "Little Red Riding Hood", in which giant clams and carnivorous beasts stalk humans, to the real reason why the giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" needs to eat human bones to a version of "Snow White" told from the wicked stepmother's point of view, fans of fairy and folk tales will find much to interest them. An ALA Best Book for Young Readers and an ALA Quick Pick.

A Tale Dark & Grimm

A Tale Dark & Grimm PDF Author: Adam Gidwitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101445289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.

The Jungle Book Volume 2: Last of the Species

The Jungle Book Volume 2: Last of the Species PDF Author: Mark L. Miller
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
ISBN: 1939683025
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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The Isle of Kipling has known war between the animal tribes for generations. But when a pirate ship crashed to the island shore, the arrival of four infant survivors was deemed an omen to signify the end of the war. Divided up between the tribes in a fragile act of peace, the four children grew up separate form one another, not knowing of one another's existence. But years later, a simple run through the jungle for Mowglii and her adopted mother wolf accidently disrupted the peace. And eventually Mowglii's mother wolf was murdered by the ferocious tigher, Shere Kahn. As a result, Mowglii finally achieved vegenance by killing Shere Khan. Although Mowglii's act may have quenched her thirst for revenge, it has rekindled the fires of war. Now, the borders between the animal tribes are shattered, the jungle is unsettled, and war on Kipling Isle looms on the horizon.

Grim Tales

Grim Tales PDF Author: Wilyem Clark
Publisher: Wilyem Clark
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Twelve stories.

Evergreen

Evergreen PDF Author: Rena Priest
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734697810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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In this rich, shadowy, glittering anthology edited by Sharma Shields and Maya Jewell Zeller , a multitude of Northwest writers share their singular stories, essays, and poems that center what Shields calls "the literature of despair." These pages confront what is difficult in life with extraordinary precision and grace: In Beth Piatote's story "Secondary Infection," a Yakama auntie narrates the undoing of a lonely woman; in the essay "There Is No Story Until It Happens to You," Richard Fifield writes about a devastating car crash in the remote Montana northlands of his youth; in his series of poems, "During the Pandemic," Rick Barot reflects on fear, isolation, and hope as quarantine descends; in her visual poem, "The Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit: An Auto-Elegy," artist Mita Mahato mourns the decline of a fragile species and the terrors of human impact on the environment. In works that span themes from colonialism to environmentalism, from divorce to disease, from toxic masculinity to a loss of faith, the writers here unflinchingly address what makes us vulnerable, what makes us complex, what cleaves us and what connects us. As Zeller writes in the book's introduction, this ambitious anthology pushes us to "learn, memorize, and recite the songs sung by these regional voices, mapping us into a communal root system of evergreen selves."

The Grimm Conclusion

The Grimm Conclusion PDF Author: Adam Gidwitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142427365
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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From Newbery Honor-winning, New York Times bestselling author Adam Gidwitz Cover may vary Did you know that Cinderella’s stepsisters got their eyes pecked out by birds? Really. And that Rumpelstiltskin ripped himself in half? And that in “The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage,” a mouse, a bird, and a sausage all talk to each other? (Okay, I guess that one’s not that grim.) Those are the real fairy tales. But they have nothing on the fairy tales in this book. For more twisted tales look for A Tale Dark and Grimm and In a Glass Grimmly. * “Underneath the gore, the wit, and the trips to Hell and back, this book makes it clearer than ever that Gidwitz truly cares about the kids he writes for.” —Publishers Weekly starred review “Entertaining story-mongering, with traditional and original tropes artfully intertwined.”—Kirkus Reviews “As innovative as they are traditional, the stories maintain clear connections with traditional Grimm tales while creatively connecting to the narrative, and all the while keeping the proceedings undeniably grisly and lurid. . . .Readers will rejoice.”—School Library Journal

Book of Shadows

Book of Shadows PDF Author: Manuel Arenas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781956702026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For those who hunger for small bites of horror sweetened with black humor, this collection of Grim Tales and Gothic Fancies offers a satisfying repast: morbidly playful riffs on the faerie tales of the Brothers Grimm; darkly exquisite Gothic fables in both prose and verse; and hell-raising evocations of beings both demonic and diabolic. A rich feast of horrors leavened with wit, Book of Shadows offers a delicious glimpse into the decadent heart and mordant mind of Manuel Arenas. In "The Sanguinary Saga of Morbidezza Vespertilio, Vampiress," Arenas inverts "Sleeping Beauty" with more than a touch of Gothicism in the style of Hammer horror. With "Rosaire, Master of Wolves," he shows us the dark genesis and bloody destiny of a born werewolf. A lighter touch is used in "Gothilocks," a playfully sardonic update on "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The dread demon of Christmas makes an appearance in "Greetings from Krampus," and in "Nativity in Black: An Anti-Christmas Story," we are presented with a dark celebration featuring all creatures great and infernal in a pageant-quite literally-from Hell. This volume is sumptuously illustrated by Dan Sauer, whose surreal images heighten the effect of the dark fantasies contained herein.

Classics Reimagined, Grimm's Fairy Tales

Classics Reimagined, Grimm's Fairy Tales PDF Author: Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher: Classics Reimagined
ISBN: 1631593722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Book Description
Retold with illustrations by artist Yann Legendre, this new paperback edition of the Classics Reimagined series will excite and enthrall!

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Illustrated by Walter Crane)

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Illustrated by Walter Crane) PDF Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781397305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This is a magical collection of Grimms' tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin and many others. These spellbinding stories will delight, surprise and educate. The renowned Walter Crane has lovingly illustrated this volume.

Grim Tales

Grim Tales PDF Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726880474
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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A short horror story collection titled "Grim Tales" is exactly what you would expect from an author named Edith Bland, but her pen name E. Nesbit has quite another reputation so don't let that scare you. Hopefully you can leave that to the stories. Well-versed in the realms of fantasy and magical kingdoms as a children's author, E. Nesbit has a knack for the supernatural, which she tackles here in seven fantastical tales. Take "The Ebony Frame" for example – a story about a man enchanted by a beautiful woman in a painting in his attic (no relation to "The Picture of Dorian Gray" aside from the incredibly obvious), or "Man-Size in Marble", in which, akin to the film "The Conjuring" (2013), a young couple ignore the warnings of buying a new house and spookiness ensues. Short story collections are like houseboats – you're only a page turn or anchor pull away from new friends and a new perspective... or possibly the cold depths of the abyss. And by reading this you're surely in pursuit of the latter? Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) (married name Edith Bland) was a prolific English author and poet, writing primarily children's books under the pen name E. Nesbit. Her work often characterized by a mix of realistic settings with fantastical elements, Nesbit went on to influence writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Her most notable works include "Five Children and It" (1902) and "The Railway Children" (1906) which have never gone out of print.