Trina Schart Hyman
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Several of the popular stories are retold with handsome illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Beautiful edition of selected stories including: The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. In 1386, Chaucer recorded, or created, the stories spun by 30 pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury. Cohen and Hyman have responded to Chaucer's masterpiece with lively prose and unforgettable pictures that evoke the colorful world of 14th-century England....
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This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas captures a child's-eye view and an adult's fond remembrance of a magical time of presents, good things to eat, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow - its wonder, silence, and snowball mischief. --Back cover.
12) Snow White
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The tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.
14) Winter poems
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A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.
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"First published in 1843, 'A Christmas Carol' is Charles Dickens' touching fable about Ebenezer Scrooge's conversion from miserable penny -pincher to jovial benefactor. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts who show him the error of his ways. With this story, Dickens captured the "spirit of benevolence" we now assume to be the essence of the Christmas Season, and immortalized both himself and his protagonist. This beautiful...
19) Rapunzel
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Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
20) Snow White
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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.