Tautas pasakas un teikas-2
Annas Brigader redakcija.
Princeses brīnumputns. Vaskotais zirdziņš. Sprīdītis. Zeltmatītis. Rudzu luņģīši. Baltie vīriņi un melnie vīriņi. Virs, kungs un muižkungs. Kalējpuisis. Jūras mātes govis. Uguns nesējs.
Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis
Ilustrējis P. Kundziņš
Rīga, 1925.
Valtera un Rapas akc. sab. Izdevums.
Tautas pasakas un teikas-3
Annas Brigader redakcija
Zelta putns; Vērpēja, Tinēja, Audēja; Zivs spēks, — Dieva palīgs!; Ķēniņa meitas gredzens; Muļķīša kulīte; Vagare un lācis; Lapsa un krūze; Sērdienīte un čūska; Kā gana puika par ķēniņa padoma devēju ticis; Strādīgā sieva; Zaķītis
Noskanējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis
Ilustrējis prot. J. Tālbergs
Rīga, 1991 skonto
Rīgā, 1924.
Valtera un Rapas akc. sab. Izdevums
The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847).
The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847).
Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.
A collection of twenty-two fairy tales by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, most translated into English for the first time, show the influence of German Romanticism, psychoanalysis, and Eastern religion on his development as an author.
"Please come and help me, brother! Oh, please do! Oh, do! Oh, do!"
How could Gobbolino resist a plea like that, even though it came from his wicked sister, Sootica, the wicth's cat? It nearly broke Gobbolino's heart to have ti leave his new, comfortable life as a kitchen cat but, if Sootica was in trouble, he had to help her.
The road to the Hurricane MOuntains took Gobbolino and his steadfast friend, the little wooden horse, through many exciting and magical adventures - sometimes so dangerous that neither of them could be sure they would ever see home again!
Shasta escapes from the land of Calormen with a Narnian warhorse, Bree. Along with Aravis and her horse Hwin, they uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia and must find a way to save Narnia and its people.
English years: 1940
Narnian years: 1014
Sometimes magic doesn’t always do what one intends… especially when one is a bard-in-training.
A New York Times bestseller.
A false Aslan is roaming Narnia, commanding everyone to work for the cruel Calormemes. Can Eustace and Jill find the true Aslan and restore peace to the land? The last battle is the greatest of all and the final struggle between good and evil.
English years: 1949
Narnian years: 2555
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy find their way through an old wardrobe into the world of Narnia. There, they unite with Aslan to fight the White Witch and save Narnia from perpetual Darkness.
English years: 1940
Narnian years: 1000
When Princess Ozma and all the magic of the Land of Oz are mysteriously stolen away, Dorothy and the other residents of Oz are determined to find their missing ruler and the thief responsible for her disappearance.
After an exciting magical search, Dorothy and her friends present Princess Ozma with a surprise birthday cake.
"Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it is magic."
What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortune-teller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchenne knows the questions that he must ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortune-teller's mysterious answer (An elephant! An elephant will lead you there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it is true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be told by Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes – hope and belonging, desire and compassion – with the lightness of a magician’s touch.
Digory and Polly discover a secret passage that links their houses, and are tricked into vanishing out of this world and into the World of Charn, where they wake up the evil Queen Jadis. There, they witness the creation of the Land of Narnia, as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan.
English years: 1900
Narnian years: 1
Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkin, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls.
This amusing and fascinating children’s book is often called the Russian “Thousand and One Nights.”
Who is the old Genie Hottabych?
This is what the author has to say of him: “In one of Scheherazade’s tales I read of the Fisherman who found a copper vessel in his net. In the vessel was a mighty Genie — a magician who had been imprisoned in the bottle for nearly two thousand years. The Genie had sworn to make the one who freed him rich, powerful and happy.
“But what if such a Genie suddenly came to life in the Soviet Union, in Moscow? I tried to imagine what would have happened if a very ordinary Russian boy had freed him from the vessel.
“And imagine, I suddenly discovered that a schoolboy named Volka Kostylkov, the very same Volka who used to live on Three Ponds Street, you know, the best diver at summer camp last year… On second thought, I believe we had better begin from the beginning…”