Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Contains a magical collection of folktales from around the world.

Author: Margaret Evans Alice
Publisher: Checkerboard Books
ISBN: 9780026894128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A collection of twenty Greek and Roman myths including Apollo and Diana, Arcas and Callisto, and Pomona and Vertumnus.

Author: Bruno Bettelheim
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307739635
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award "A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development. Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to “The Three Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” Bettelheim shows how the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in our greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one’s life.

Author: Brimax Books, Limited
Publisher: Brimax Books
ISBN: 9780861120741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195178211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.

Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417705979
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Ten short stories include the tale of Queen Cimorene's Frying Pan of Doom, a yarn about a magical blue chipmunk with a passion for chestnuts, and a story about an enchanted wizard's daughter.

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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Nineteen tales from Greek mythology adapted for children.

Author: Carolyne Larrington
Publisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851242641
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A faun carrying an umbrella; a hobbit who lives in a hole; a mysterious name - Lyra; an ill-treated schoolboy with a scar and a secret. Children's fantasy books often begin with resonant images. However, they also begin in an author's reading practices. How do children's authors incorporate myths and legends into their work? And how do myths and legends change as a result? In this richly illustrated collection of essays a team of academic experts trace the magical tales from Norse myth, Arthurian legend and medieval literature which have inspired the finest writers for children, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alan Garner. Drawing on collections of manuscripts and rare books in the Bodleian Library, additional chapters put the spotlight on spell books, grimoires and books that do magic, as well as exploring stunning examples of pop-up books, harlequinades and concertina panoramas from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature.Other writers under discussion include children's authors of the Victorian era, such as George MacDonald, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, and twentieth-century writers Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman. Through wide-ranging analysis these essays show how literature and tales from the Middle Ages and earlier still have been reinterpreted for each generation and continue to have a profound impact on writers of fantasy books for children today.

Author: Carol H. Lankton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134847777
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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What can a therapist do when faced with the all-too-familiar client who seems stuck or resistant? With this volume, veteran therapists Carol and Steve Lankton offer clinicians an effective tool with which they can expand their ability to be successful in therapy through integrating the use of indirection into the more commonly used rational and direct approach. This is a book of predesigned stories that the Lanktons and their trainees have told in successful therapy in order to assist clients in their movement toward specific, preplanned goals. The stories are categorized according to the way they are structured to reach particular types of goals, such as changes in affect, attitudinal restructuring, changes in behavior, changes in family structure, changes in self-image and many others.

Author: Thomas Peckett Prest
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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