Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds

Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds PDF Author: Duncan Williamson
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782508260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds is a treasure trove of traditional Scottish folk and fairy tales as told by Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's greatest storytellers. Young readers will explore a land of folklore and magic inhabited by helpful broonies, fickle fairies, golden birds and shining unicorns in captivating tales, full of colour, humour and life. These timeless stories have been passed down the generations through oral tradition and are now retold for today's children while carefully preserving Duncan's unique storytelling voice. One of Scotland's Travelling People, Duncan spent a lifetime journeying the country's highways and byways, collecting stories along the way. This beautifully presented treasury includes insight into Duncan's life and cultural heritage alongside a curated collection of his best-loved stories and classic tales. A selection of these stories has previously appeared in The Coming of the Unicorn and The Flight of the Golden Bird.

Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds

Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds PDF Author: Duncan Williamson
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782508260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
Silver Unicorns and Golden Birds is a treasure trove of traditional Scottish folk and fairy tales as told by Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's greatest storytellers. Young readers will explore a land of folklore and magic inhabited by helpful broonies, fickle fairies, golden birds and shining unicorns in captivating tales, full of colour, humour and life. These timeless stories have been passed down the generations through oral tradition and are now retold for today's children while carefully preserving Duncan's unique storytelling voice. One of Scotland's Travelling People, Duncan spent a lifetime journeying the country's highways and byways, collecting stories along the way. This beautifully presented treasury includes insight into Duncan's life and cultural heritage alongside a curated collection of his best-loved stories and classic tales. A selection of these stories has previously appeared in The Coming of the Unicorn and The Flight of the Golden Bird.

The Golden Bird, and Other Tales

The Golden Bird, and Other Tales PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Jeremy in the Underworld

Jeremy in the Underworld PDF Author: Becky Citra
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551434660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Jeremy and Aristotle can get into the Underworld, but can they get out?

The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird PDF Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854100101
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Silver Sun

The Silver Sun PDF Author: Nancy Springer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497632536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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As evil threatens a magical land, two brothers must find the strength and courage to stop it, in the second volume of this classic fantasy adventure series. In the Kingdom of Isle, where the Sun Kings reign with the power of the Book of the Suns, Hal and Alan are given a mission. They must use the ancient strength of wisdom to destroy the evil that plagues the kingdom. The two blood brothers venture throughout the land fighting the many forms that this evil takes so they can arrive at their destiny.

The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird PDF Author: Brothers Grimm
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726591529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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A golden bird steals the king’s golden apples and he is determined to catch her. He sends his three sons out in the world with the only task to catch the bird. The three boys meet a fox on their way. The fox wants to give them some useful advises but the two older sons would not listen. The third one however follows the fox’s words which takes him out of trouble several times. Would you believe us if we told you that the brother killed the fox at the end of the tale? Why? And what happened with the bird? Find out in Brothers Grimm’s tale "The Golden Bird". Children and adults alike, immerse yourselves into Grimm’s world of folktales and legends! Come, discover the little-known tales and treasured classics in this collection of 210 fairy tales. Brothers Grimm are probably the best-known storytellers in the world. Some of their most popular fairy tales are "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and there is hardly anybody who has not grown up with the adventures of Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Snow White. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s exceptional literature legacy consists of recorded German and European folktales and legends. Their collections have been translated into all European languages in their lifetime and into every living language today.

The Golden Bird

The Golden Bird PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9788960492110
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Languages : en
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The Flight of the Golden Bird

The Flight of the Golden Bird PDF Author: Duncan Williamson
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 1782500278
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Duncan Williamson, one of Scotland's Travelling People, has been celebrated as the bearer of Scotland's greatest national treasure: the richest trove of story and song in Europe. In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales, collected from sixty years of travelling around Scotland. This collection includes stories about silver horses and golden birds, cunning lions and trilling nightingales, brave princesses and magic scarecrows, the four seasons and old Father Time. At the heart of each story is a lesson about life and what it means to be a good person. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.

Golden Horn, Silver Hooves

Golden Horn, Silver Hooves PDF Author: Lauren Plaskonos
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN: 9781628545807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Golden Horn, Silver Hooves is a poem written in flowing, old English verse. It tells the story of a character coming across a unicorn in the whimsical place of Wycombe-on-the-Rye, and their ponderings on what the unicorn may truly be like.

The Coming of the Unicorn

The Coming of the Unicorn PDF Author: Duncan Williamson
Publisher: Floris Books
ISBN: 0863159362
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Stories are something you carry with you, something to last your entire life, to be passed on to your children, and their children for evermore.' Duncan Williamson came from a family of Travelling People, who told stories around the campfire for entertainment and for teaching. As a child, Duncan learnt the ways of the world through stories: 'My father's knowledge told us how to live in this world as natural human beings -- not to be greedy, not to be foolish, not to be daft or selfish -- by stories.' In this collection, he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk and fairy tales. For over sixty years Duncan travelled around Scotland -- on foot, then in a horse and cart, and later an old van -- collecting tales, which not only come from the Travelling People but from the crofters, farmers and shepherds he met along the way. This collection includes tales about cunning foxes and storytelling cats, hunchbacked ogres and beautiful unicorns, helpful broonies and mysterious fairies, rich kings and fearsome warriors, as well as those about ordinary folk trying to make their way in the world. The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice, full of colour, humour and life.