Author: Irene Kilpatrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416949461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Jared Grace offers an in-depth look at the tactics he used to fight off hordes of goblins from Spiderwick Mansion, helping readers learn how to identify threats from the magical world around them. Original.
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
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Long ago Jared Grace's great great uncle, Arthur Spiderwick, discovered a world of fantastical creatures. He recorded all his findings in a field guide and hid it well. Many years later Jared discovers the guide and enters a fantastical world of sprites, goblins and faeries.
Author: John Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192762788
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Featuring poems from favourite poets such as Kit Wright, Jack Pretutsky, and Adrian Henri, as well as specially-written poems, this a collection of creepy poems selected by the best-selling anthologist John Foster.John Foster is the most renowned children's poetry anthologist in the UK, he lives in Oxford and is well-known for his performances.
Author: J. A. Sykley
Publisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1921479310
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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"[The author] shows how the universal themes in the Harry Potter series can make your life more positive and healthy and your lifestyle more sustainable."--Back cover.
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486828751
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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What makes owls wise and foxes sly? How did the lion become the king of beasts, and why do serpents symbolize evil? This survey of legends, folk tales, myths, and superstitions chronicles the human fascination with the animal kingdom. Assembled by a noted naturalist, Ruth Binney, this charmingly illustrated collection abounds in animal lore from around the world and throughout history. Binney provides captivating examples of attempts to explain nature's wonders and mysteries with animal-related proverbs and folk wisdom. She explores the historic associations of wild and domestic animals with kindling romance, bringing good and bad luck, and fostering improved health, as well as their roles in forecasting weather and serving as omens of everything from sudden wealth to imminent death. A gallery of mythical figures features dragons, werewolves, mermaids, and other creatures with supernatural powers. Brimming with enchantment, this compilation of folkloric traditions will delight animal lovers of every stripe!
Author: Ruth Binney
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
ISBN: 0715333933
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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A fascinating collection of animal and plant truths, tales, and traditions from the author of Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Royal Family Life. Trying to understand the ways of the natural world has been a human preoccupation since the earliest times. The knowledge of which animals were helpful and which were dangerous, which plants had the power to heal and soothe and which to harm and kill was of obvious importance, not only to learn, but to remember and pass on. It is therefore hardly surprising that from all corners of the earth, a wealth of stories, signs, symbols, myths and legends about animals and plants have been passed down to us. There are sound principles in some of the traditional advice, wisdom in many of the stories and observations of nature, but there are also highly fanciful superstitions, tall stories and amusing anecdotes. Ruth Binney has collected them all into this entertaining and fascinating volume. There are intriguing tales of everything from mythical monsters and magical plants to domestic pets and humble weeds, as well as generations of advice, both sound and dubious, from age-old country remedies to predicting the weather through the observation of nature. “Whether read from cover to cover in one sitting or dipped into from time to time, there is plenty here to entertain.” —Blackmore Vale Magazine “This is the sort of book that you dip into merely intending to linger for a few minutes, only to find yourself staying for an hour.” —Dorset Magazine
Author: Jonathan Eaves
Publisher: Jonathan Eaves
ISBN: 1310560145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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In the land known as Terra Infirma (so-called due to its weak constitution), in the once vibrant city of Marasmus, the Trollian Conquest is complete and an authoritarian and oppressive regime holds sway. Religion is banned and the city's patron God, WACCHUS, finds Himself forcibly retired. He discovers that resurrection is only possible through the person of the Awakener. Unfortunately, the only being who remotely fits the bill is a drunken and world-weary dwarf called Anyx. Can Anyx really be the Awakener? And can he (with the assistance of, amongst others, an elephant, a down-on-his-luck leper, a bunch of half-crazed pirates and some blokes in tights) evade the clutches of the psychotic troll Granntt, and the demonic Theo De Ville, and save the day?
Author: Alexander Tulloch
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497464
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Did You Know? In Stacksteads, a village near Bacup, there is an annual event which has to rank among the wackiest in the country’s sporting calendar: the Gravy Wrestling competition. According to legend King Arthur’s mighty sword Excalibur is lying at the bottom of Lancashire’s deepest lake, Martin Mere. In Wigan, Eccles cakes used to be called ‘slow walking cakes’ because they were offered to mourners at funerals. St Walburge’s Church in Preston was named after the patron saint of people suffering from rabies. The Little Book of Lancashire is fun and informative guide to the things you did not know about this amazing part of England. Whether you want to sit down and read it cover to cover or dip into it for hilarious facts and anecdotes, this book will delight both visitors to this beautiful county and the residents who call it home.
Author: Cressida Cowell
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444941461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The No.1 bestselling series from current Waterstones Children's Laureate and author of How To Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell. Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful Magic in an exciting fantasy adventure. Wish and Xar are outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards and worst of all by WITCHES ... Can they find the ingredients for the spell to get rid of Witches before the Kingwitch gets his talons on the Magic-that-Works-on-Iron? Their next Quest is the most terrifying and treacherous of all ... and someone is going to betray them. Are you ready to KNOCK THREE TIMES? 'A rollercoaster of suspense and surprise' GUARDIAN 'Cowell is moving towards national treasure' BIG ISSUE 'Another coup from Cowell' SUNDAY TIMES
Author: Patricia Gherovici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316688119
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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This collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian practitioners and scholars, this cutting-edge volume proposes a paradigm swerve, a Freudian slip on a banana peel. Psychoanalysis has long been associated with tragedy and there is a strong warrant to take up comedy as a more productive model for psychoanalytic practice and critique. Jokes and the comic have not received nearly as much consideration as they deserve given the fundamental role they play in our psychic lives and the way they unite the fields of aesthetics, literature, and psychoanalysis. Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy addresses this lack and opens up the discussion.
