Author: Chelsea Thayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735511726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Phillipa Jane, aka Princess Pippa, is NOT your typical princess. This tree-climbing, corn shucking, Christmas-tree-farmer's-daughter is nothing like the royalty in fairy tales. The Patchwork Princess explores a day in the life of Pippa, a feminine, yet fierce, young farm girl, who fancies herself a princess. With her crown of Queen Anne's Lace (a regional wildflower) and a slice of cornbread, Pippa and her little brother rule over their dominion, a patch of farmland. Chelsea Wilson Thayer's story was inspired by the life of her own family. The rhyme and rhythm of the story capture the exuberant character of young Pippa while the exquisite illustrations by Beth Snider capture the beauty and warmth of the Appalachian mountains. This timeless story is a tribute to those that call these mountains home.
Author: Connie S. Arnold
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532056168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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The king sends out an invitation for the brave knights in his kingdom to attempt the rescue of his beautiful daughter from Terrance the Terrible’s ten-story tower. The black knight must be defeated, and the dragon must be slain. Who will be brave enough? A troubadour is a singer of songs, but he sets out to be the hero. The winner is promised one-third of the kingdom, three bags of gold, three new suits of armor, three white steeds, a sword with a ruby-studded hilt, and the princess’s hand in marriage. The troubadour does not want to marry the princess, but he would like all the other stuff. He writes new songs, polishes his musical instruments, and presents himself to the king for permission to go on the quest.
Author: Mary Cartee
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781456085049
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Kat Zhang
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534463631
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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In this sweet and brightly illustrated picture book, Amy Wu must craft a dragon unlike any other to share with her class at school in this unforgettable follow-up to Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao. Amy loves craft time at school. But when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don’t think it’s a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right...None of them feels like hers. After school, a story from Grandma sparks new inspiration, and Amy rounds up her family to help her. Together, can they make Amy’s perfect dragon?
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775451909
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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In this, the seventh book of L. Frank Baum's delightful Oz series, a living doll named Scraps and a Munchkin boy named Ojo set out to free Ojo's Uncle Nunkie from a dangerous magical spell that has turned him into a statue. This whimsical journey will delight fantasy fiction fans of all ages.
Author: Connie S. Arnold
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532073925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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When Ra-me, the Traveling Troubadour, is invited to attend the christening celebration of Fair Haven Village’s newest ship, he doesn’t know it will turn into a dangerous adventure. Lured to the village by the promise of a bag of gold and the sighting of a real, live mermaid, he joyfully accepts the invitation to play his piccolo and lute and lead the festival parade. When Merrylin, the mermaid, fails to break the bottle of sparkling water at the christening, a curse in the form of black clouds threaten, and a storm descends. The black clouds hide the arrival of Mudcat’s pirate ship, The Pirate’s Revenge. The sea god, Neptune, who brought the curse, must be appeased. When Captain Skip Jack finally broke the bottle, sharing half of its contents with the Neptune, the curse was lifted. But during the darkness, Mudcat the Pirate kidnapped the festival princess, Miss Lulu Belle, and sailed away. Ra-me is forced to go with the Captain to help find and rescue Lulu Belle. The pirate ship has sailed to the far coastline where many overhangs shelter hidden coves and caves. But the newly-christened ship, Good Ship Lightning Bolt, sails quickly in pursuit. When Ra-me finds Mudcat the Pirate, he must try to compose a siren’s song to make the pirate give up. His lute must play a magic tune. The plot takes a twist, and there is a surprise ending to this adventure.
Author: Valerie Flournoy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803700970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.
Author: Connie S. Arnold
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532064012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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Blaze the dragon will be twelve, and Ra-me, a traveling troubadour, has been invited to come and play in Dragon Village for his coming-of-age birthday party. All attendees are fierce dragons, but he has a permission slip in his pocket that guarantees his safety. But there is an accident. Blaze has lost his ability to breathe fire. The entire village is restless. Will he be safe? Each dragon tries his luck in making Blaze breathe fire again. None of these attempts work. Inferno, the dragon leader, commands Ra-me to sing a song that will light Blaze’s fire. Ra-me is no firebug; he is just a wimpy little singer. He has to find some courage; he has to create a song with magic powers.
Author: Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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This is the Oz book which L. Frank Baum considered his best. It starts quietly enough with Trot and Cap'n Bill rowing along a shore of the Pacific Ocean to visit one of the many caves near their home on the California coast. Suddenly, a mighty whirlpool engulfs them. The old sailorman and the little girl are miraculously saved and regain consciousness to find themselves in a sea cavern. (To this day, Trot asserts she felt mermaid arms about her during those terrible moments under water.) From here on, one perilous adventure crowds in upon another. In Jinxland they meet the Scarecrow who takes charge of things once Cap'n Bill is transformed into a tiny grasshopper with a wooden leg. An exciting royal reception greets the adventurers upon their return to the Emerald City.
Author: Sue Ann Prince
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
