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Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In this retelling of the classic fairy tale, a kitten called Cat climbs to the top of an enormous beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart a giant dog and make his and his mother's fortune. Includes a note on the history of the tale.
4) The treasure
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Description
A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©1973
Description
Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy,...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When a teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny village churchyard, she takes it home to boil for her teeny-tiny supper. She never expects the bone will object. This slightly silly, slightyly spooky classic ghost story is retold and illustrated with singular wit by Paul Galdone. Sure to become a spine-tingling story-time favorite.
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Jack and his mother were very poor. One day Jack takes their only cow and sells it for handful of beans. His mother is very angry, and tells Jack to throw the beans out the window! By the next morning the magic beans have grown into a gigantic beanstalk. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a large castle at the top. In the castle is a goose that lays golden eggs. Jack takes the goose, and sets off back down the beanstalk. A giant follows Jack. When...
10) Robin Hood
Author
Publisher
[Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara]
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"Las aventuras de Robin Hood comienzan cuando el príncipe Juan se apodera del trono de Inglaterra y Robin y sus amigos tienen que refugiarse en el bosque de Sherwood. Desde allí tratarán de derrotar al príncipe y de liberar a una joven de la que Robin se ha enamorado" -- P. [4] of cover.
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
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Series
Publisher
Applesauce Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Thousands upon thousands of years ago, Welsh and English folklore told of an unusually brave, kind, and fair leader named King Arthur who protected his people from Saxon invaders in the fifth century. Medieval author Sir Thomas Malory collected, translated, and retold the folktales of King Arthur in his 1485 book Le Morte d’Arthur, which remains one of the most famous books of Arthurian legend to this day. Kid Classics: King Arthur is the thrilling...
13) Arthur the king
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Publisher
Sea to Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Arthur is king of Britain, but he has to fight for his kingdom. Merlin the magician must teach him how, and Arthur will need a sword fit for a king.
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Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When Jack sells his family's cow for magic beans, his mother is anything but pleased. Soon, however, the beans sprout into a towering beanstalk. It leads to a castle filled with gold and other treasures. Jack's family will be rich, if he can sneak past the man-eating giant!
Cuando Jack vende la vaca de la familia a cambio de unos frijoles mágicos, su madre no está nada contenta. Sin embargo, pronto los frijoles se convierten en una empinada planta...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In "Sylvester and the magic pebble," a small donkey finds a wishing stone. In "Possum magic, " Garndma Poss needs a certain food for a magical mix that will make Hush visible again. In "Princess Furball," a cruel king intends to marry his duaghter to an ogre in exchange for wagons full of silver.
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