Author: F. A. De Caro
Publisher: August House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Collects over fifty folktales from all over the world, featuring cats and their mystical qualities.
The Folktale Cat
Author: F. A. De Caro
Publisher: August House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Collects over fifty folktales from all over the world, featuring cats and their mystical qualities.
Publisher: August House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Collects over fifty folktales from all over the world, featuring cats and their mystical qualities.
No Year of the Cat
Author: Mary Dodson Wade
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627531076
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Emperor has a problem. He wants his people to remember the year in which his son was born. But there is no way to keep track of the years. So the Emperor devises a race in which animals will cross a river. The first twelve animals to reach the opposite side will have a year named after them. Thus, the people will be able to remember the years and the events that occurred. And so the race is set. Rat, knowing he is no match for the rushing water, schemes with Cat on how to cross the river. Together the two convince Ox to carry them across. But halfway across the river, Rat shows his true colors. Will Cat make it to the other side? Which animals will have a year named after them? Accompanied by exquisite watercolor artwork, this charming story explains the origins of the Chinese calendar.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627531076
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Emperor has a problem. He wants his people to remember the year in which his son was born. But there is no way to keep track of the years. So the Emperor devises a race in which animals will cross a river. The first twelve animals to reach the opposite side will have a year named after them. Thus, the people will be able to remember the years and the events that occurred. And so the race is set. Rat, knowing he is no match for the rushing water, schemes with Cat on how to cross the river. Together the two convince Ox to carry them across. But halfway across the river, Rat shows his true colors. Will Cat make it to the other side? Which animals will have a year named after them? Accompanied by exquisite watercolor artwork, this charming story explains the origins of the Chinese calendar.
The Fat Cat
Author:
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241021309
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
SUMMARY: The shocking, funny yet satisfying Danish folktale of the little cat who ate the gruel he was watching over, the pot, and the old woman and in fact everyone he met. He got fatter and fatter, and then he met the woodcutter.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN: 9780241021309
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
SUMMARY: The shocking, funny yet satisfying Danish folktale of the little cat who ate the gruel he was watching over, the pot, and the old woman and in fact everyone he met. He got fatter and fatter, and then he met the woodcutter.
Fat Cat
Author:
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A greedy cat grows enormous as he eats everything in sight, including his friends and neighbors who call him fat.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A greedy cat grows enormous as he eats everything in sight, including his friends and neighbors who call him fat.
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
Author: Charles de Lint
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316215511
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In this whimsical, original folktale, written and illustrated throughout in vibrant full color by two celebrated masters of modern fantasy, a young girl's journey becomes an enchanting coming-of-age story about magic, friendship, and the courage to shape one's own destiny. Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest, a magical, rolling wilderness that she imagines to be full of fairies. The trouble is, Lillian has never seen a wisp of magic in her hills--until the day the cats of the forest save her life by transforming her into a kitten. Now she must set out on a perilous adventure that will lead her through untamed lands of fabled creates--from Old Mother Possum to the fearsome Bear People--to find a way to make things right.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316215511
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In this whimsical, original folktale, written and illustrated throughout in vibrant full color by two celebrated masters of modern fantasy, a young girl's journey becomes an enchanting coming-of-age story about magic, friendship, and the courage to shape one's own destiny. Lillian Kindred spends her days exploring the Tanglewood Forest, a magical, rolling wilderness that she imagines to be full of fairies. The trouble is, Lillian has never seen a wisp of magic in her hills--until the day the cats of the forest save her life by transforming her into a kitten. Now she must set out on a perilous adventure that will lead her through untamed lands of fabled creates--from Old Mother Possum to the fearsome Bear People--to find a way to make things right.
The Beckoning Cat
Author: Koko Nishizuka
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823460090
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this story based on a Japanese folktale, an impoverished boy named Yohei shares his dinner with a cat that appears on his doorstep. When Yohei faces a crisis, the cat remembers his generosity and brings help.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 9780823460090
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this story based on a Japanese folktale, an impoverished boy named Yohei shares his dinner with a cat that appears on his doorstep. When Yohei faces a crisis, the cat remembers his generosity and brings help.
Meow
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060291613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A collection of folktales about cats.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060291613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
A collection of folktales about cats.
How to Fool a Cat
Author: Fran Stallings
Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781624910555
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Japanese folktales collected by a traditional "ohanashi obaasan" (storytelling grandma), Hiroko Fujita.
Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated
ISBN: 9781624910555
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Japanese folktales collected by a traditional "ohanashi obaasan" (storytelling grandma), Hiroko Fujita.
Cats of Myth
Author: Gerald Hausman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A collection of stories from Egypt, India, Japan, Scandinavia, Ireland and other places that portray cats as goddesses, guardians, tricksters, warriors, magicians, and more.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A collection of stories from Egypt, India, Japan, Scandinavia, Ireland and other places that portray cats as goddesses, guardians, tricksters, warriors, magicians, and more.
The Brown Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied