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The Night Before Christmas
A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.
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Why War Is Never a Good Idea
Simple, rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of War, which has grown old but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with no consideration for the consequence
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War in heaven
Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the Search for the Holy Grail. Examining the distinction between magic and religion, War in Heaven is an eerily disturbing book, one that graphically portrays a metaphysical journey through the shadowy crevices of the human mind. ( Amazon)
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge.
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Peacock pie, a book of rhymes
Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs."
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'Twas the Night before Christmas
The Coca-Cola Company's Santa are used to illustrate the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.
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Fairy tales
An illustrated collection of four Pushkin stories in verse.
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The man from Snowy River
In the ballads and poetry of Banjo Paterson are captured the spirit of the Australian Outback, and the essences of the bushmen and women who pioneered it. The vast distances, the droughts, the floods, the flies, the heat ... and the harsh and beautiful places of Outback Australia were brought to the city people of the late 1880's through the writings of Andrew Barton Paterson.A true folk poet, a…
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A Beleaguered City
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Les contemplations
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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The Complete Poetical Works
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The song of Hiawatha
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft…
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You read to me, I'll read to you
Here's a book With something new - You read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page To one another - You'll read one side, I the other. But who will read - Now guess this riddle - When the words are In the middle? The answer's easy! Plain as pie! We'll read together, You and I.
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Instructions
This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.
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Down-adown-derry
Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Holt, New York.
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Barbie Horse Trouble Barbie Look Look
Golden Books launches fun new Barbie series this year. With everything from fairy tales to horse club books -- there's something for everyone with Barbie Rebecca's the new camper at the Lucky Horseshoe Camp and she thinks she doesn't need Barbie, or Stacie's help. Will Rebecca change her tune after her horse becomes frightened and tries to throw her? Find out in Horse Trouble
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Marmion
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