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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Two adventurous young cats-Sinbad and the Duke-are best friends who share a "trampish love of the free and easy life." They travel together, away from the tall buildings of the north, in search of a home where they can practice the skip and shuffle of their boxing technique. With luck, they find themselves proud residents of their very own home-an abandoned shack in an overgrown garden. Food is scarce until one man, an old sea captain new to the neighborhood,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A collection of Norse myths describing the exploits of the Aesir gods and goddesses, beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the day of reckoning. The companion to D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, a treasured part of so many children's libraries, has returned to print after more than twenty years. The Caldecott medal winning D'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2006], 1908.
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of their long-absent father, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden and moves with his sister Elfrida into the decrepit family castle where they find an ancient spell that conjures up the magical Mouldiwarp and, with his help, set off on a journey through time in search of the lost Arden treasure.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: "The wolves are running." Soon danger is everywhere, as a gang of criminals headed by the notorious wizard Abner Brown and his witch wife Sylvia Daisy Pouncer gets...
Author
Publisher
New York Review
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
One summer's eve Ola, Lina, Sina, and Trina leave their village to gather firewood in the forest, when they're surprised by the hideous call of the terrible troll-bird, a giant rooster who pops up out of the treetops and swoops down to devour their beloved horse Blakken. Little does the terrible troll-bird know that in Ola, Lina, Sina, and Trina he has finally met his match: his terrible days of terrorizing are over. Before long the whole village...
12) The 13 clocks
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.
14) The wonderful O
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Relates what happened when an evil sea captain banished the letter O from the island Ooroo.
16) The rescuers
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
17) Pinocchio
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
18) The Pushcart War
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the world.
Author
Publisher
NYR Children's Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Some of us look up at those craggy, mysterious apartment buildings found in the posher parts of New York City and wonder what goes on inside. The Doorman's Repose collects ten stories of the doings of 777 Garden Avenue, one of the craggiest"-- Provided by publisher.
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