Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2, published by Dreamscape Media. LLC. ...
In The Happy Family, a pair of snails lives inside a burdock forest near an old manor house. They remember the old days when their kinfolk were served on platters in the old house and suspect the house has since been abandoned. Deciding to grow their family, they adopt a common snail and must arrange a marriage for their new child. ...
Following a bout with polio at the age of six, Frida Kahlo's life was marked by pain and loneliness. In real life, she walked with a limp, but in her dreams, she flew. One day, her imagination took her on a journey to a girl in white who could dance without pain and hold her secrets, an indelible figure who would find her way into Frida's art in years to come. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's diary, Anthony Browne captures the essence of ...
In this parable about the transience of earthly things, a mysterious bell is heard by the inhabitants of a village. They search the forest but are unable to find the source. When a prince and a child eventually discover it, they realize that it is as mysterious and old as nature itself. ...
Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. This title is part of Andersen's Fairy Tales, Volume 2, published by Dreamscape Media. LLC. ...
The lights dim at the Paris Opera House. The exquisite Christine Daae enraptures the audience with her mellifluous voice. Immediately, Raoul de Chagny falls deeply in love. But the legend of the disfigured opera ghost haunts the performance, and as Raoul begins his pursuit of Christine, he is pulled into the depths of the opera house, and into the depths of human emotions. Soon Raoul discovers that the ghost is real and that he wields a terrifyi ...
Young Sara Crewe grew up in a well-to-do household, but she suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchin's boarding school. To survive those hard times, she imagines herself to be a princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor. ...
Koln, 1896. Dampfkutschen und Pferdedroschken sind ebenso auf den Stra?en zu sehen wie Zauberstabe und Polizeiraben. Die nachtlichen Gassen erleuchten Gaslaternen und Neonrohren. Als der vermeintliche Selbstmorder Fortunas Pech gefunden wird, glaubt Kommissarin Ana Scagliotti erst nicht an einen Mord. Doch es stellt sich heraus: Pech war ein Mann mit dunklen Geheimnissen. Trieben sie ihn in den Selbstmord? Kommissarin Ana Scagliotti will die wa ...
Der rbb 88.8-OHRENBAR prasentiert: Das Muschelkind, gelesen von Jens Wawrczeck. Lea ist sich sicher, dass sie Naturforscherin werden wird. Eigentlich ist sie das heute schon. Lea besitzt namlich eine Naturkundesammlung mit Fundstucken wie Steinen, Federn oder Schneckenhausern. Auch ihr Onkel steuert interessante Objekte aus fernen Landern bei. Haifischzahne zum Beispiel oder Emu-Eier. Von seiner Chinareise bringt er ihr Zaubermuscheln mit, aus d ...
