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Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures, An

By: BRESLIN, THERESA

Price: $37.00

Publisher: Floris Books: 2015

Seller ID: 13906

ISBN: 1782501959

Binding: Hardback

Mysterious selkies, bad-tempered giants, devious fairies and even Loch Ness's most famous resident -- these are the mythical beasts of Scottish folklore.

In the highly anticipated companion volume to the much-loved An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales, award-winning children’s author Theresa Breslin brings together a stunning collection of tales from across Scotland.

Alternately humorous, poignant and thrilling, each story is brought to life with exquisite illustrations by Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper, whose exquisite illustrations brim with ot...
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Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales

By: BRESLIN, THERESA, LEIPER, KATE

Price: $40.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Floris Books: 2012

Seller ID: 12339

ISBN: 0863159079

Binding: Hardback

colour illustrations
Slithering stoorworms, mischievious brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies -- these are the creatures of Scottish folklore. Award-winning children's author Theresa Breslin has collected the best-loved tales from all over Scotland. Retelling each in its own individual style, she presents funny tales, moving tales and enchanting fairy tales. Soar with the goshawk, dive with selkies and battle with the stoorworm, as each story is brought to life with exquisite illustrations by Scottish fine artist Kate Leiper, which brim with otherworldly beauty. A wonderful gift,...
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Pied Piper of Hamelin

By: BRISWALTER, MAREN, ILLUS

Price: $25.99

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 13714

ISBN: 1782500359

Binding: Hardback

The town of Hamelin is infested with rats. The people are at their wits' end. Then a strange man arrives at the town gates... The Pied Piper promises to help rid the town of the rats. But will they keep their promise to pay him?This classic version of the traditional tale is beautifully brought to life by Maren Briswalter's gentle, charming illustrations.
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Town Musicians of Bremen

By: BROTHERS GRIMM, MULLER, GERDA, ILLUSTRATOR

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 13712

ISBN: 1782501770

Binding: Hardback

Four unlikely animal companions set off on an adventure to become musicians in the town of Bremen.

When night falls and they're cold and hungry, the friends find a cabin in the forest where they could rest and eat -- if it wasn't home to a band of robbers! Can the animals work together, and use their musical voices to chase the robbers away?

Children will love braying along with the donkey, barking with the dog, purring with the cat and crowing with the rooster as the animals eventually find a new home.

Gerda Muller's beautiful detailed illustrations bring this cl...
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Six Lives of Fankle the Cat

By: BROWN, GEORGE MACKAY

Price: $18.00

Publisher: United Kingdom, Floris Books: 2012

Seller ID: 738

ISBN: 0863159826

Binding: Paperback

Illustrations
When the shopkeeper gives Jenny a skinny, black kitten she has no idea who she has adopted. Fankle is no ordinary cat. The fiercely clever feline has lived six lives so far: lives of adventure, danger, fortune and poverty. He's stared down angry pirates, started a blood feud, won a war, advised an empress and leapt onto the moon. Fankle tells Jenny tales of his former lives - with the king of pirates, in ancient Egypt and even with the Empress of China. So what is he doing living in a crofter's cottage in Orkney? This classic novel by George Mackay Brown is a rich and rewar...
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Titch's Tales First Series

By: BRUVEL, MARGIE

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Morpeth, Treat Pot Books:

Seller ID: 15339

ISBN: 064815405X

Contains the stories: Jacko, Funny Stories, Lost Pets, Poor Sore Pets, Olga and Klaus
Stories inspired by the experiences of free range children
growing up on an organic home farm surrounded by native Australian bush
- just one generation ago . . .

. . . and a few tales told by generations of old.
Margie Bruvel explains:

One day a long time ago I was given this curious pot.
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While wondering what to do with it, I heard the little voice of Titch, the house elf,
call out : "It’s the Treat Pot!"
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I put that pot on top of the kitchen ...
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In the Light of a Child: A Journey through the 52 Weeks of the Year in both Hemispheres for Children

By: BURTON, MICHAEL

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Steiner Books:

Seller ID: 908

ISBN: 0880104503

Binding: Paperback

Children live deeply in the experience of the seasons. Their unity with nature is initially unconscious and uncritical, and this "Garden of Eden" consciousness gradually fades as they become more self-aware and confront the outer world as I-beings.

The verses in this book help children bridge the gap from their unconscious connection with nature to a living feeling for the seasons that will stay with them through life.

These verses, following the course of the year, were inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul. The book is arranged so that parents, teachers, euryt...
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Very Old Donkey, The

By: BURTON, MICHAEL HEDLEY, NEWBATT, DAVID

Price: $16.90

Publisher: United Kingdom, Wynstones Press: 2011

Seller ID: 10126

ISBN: 0946206724

Binding: Paperback

Watercolour and crayon
There is a Very Old Donkey, too old to pull his master's cart. With his best friend, Robbie, he goes on a search to find new work. The Very Old Donkey is a story for children aged 4 to 18.
The story's simplicity, its recognisable animals with the sounds they make, and its element of repetition, make it particularly suitable for being acted out in early stages of learning English.
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Star to Guide Me, A Illustrated Prayers for Children

By: BUSCH-SCHUMANN, RUTHILD (ILLUS)

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 12946

ISBN: 1782500049

Binding: Hardback

A charming collection of prayers for children, to say throughout the day and at bedtime.

This is the ideal first prayer book for any child. Based on well-known classics, the prayers have been rephrased to make them enjoyable for children. As well as popular traditional prayers, the collection includes versions of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and St Francis of Assisi.

Each prayer is accompanied by beautiful, nostalgic illustrations.
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Namaste!

By: COHN, DIANA

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Steiner Books:

Seller ID: 1208

ISBN: 1621480054

Binding: Paperback

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Namaste! helps support The Mountain Institute, a non-profit organization working to empower communities that call mountains home.

Nima Sherpa lives in Nepal at the top of the world, where the tallest mountain on earth, Chomolongma—the mountain we call Everest—towers above the clouds. Nima has promised her father, a mountain guide, that she will find a way to help make the world a better place.

Every day, on the long walk to the market village where she goes to school, Nima meets porters and caravans carrying their goods ...
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Boy who Knew what the Birds Said, The

By: COLUM, PADRAIC

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Pied Piper Press:

Seller ID: 12223

ISBN: 147529073X

A new edition by master storyteller, Reg Down, this magical set of Celtic tales is now enhanced with footnotes, where a word was uncommon or seldom used, an added section with characterizations and drawings of the birds mentioned in the book, included the Celtic Ogham alphabet referenced in one tale (plus examples for children to decipher, and encouragement for them to write their own Ogham), and a biography of Padraic Colum, with a description of his dramatic life and times in Ireland and his arrival in the land of hope, America.
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Rukia Goes to School

By: COOK, SUSAN

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Waldorf Publications:

Seller ID: 3611

ISBN: 1888365889

Susan Cook, a teacher from the San Francisco Waldorf School has written a delightful supplemental reader for children in grades 1-5. The story is about the day in the life of Rukia a third grade student at the Rudolf Steiner School Mbagathi south of Narobi, Kenya. It is great fun to experience the culture of an African Waldorf school and see the differences and similarities to Waldorf schools in North America.
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You Can't Play Here

By: CORBY, ANGUS

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 14392

ISBN: 0863157467

Young Gregor MacDonald is thrilled when he gets a set of bagpipes for his birthday. Now he can be just like Grandad. But each time he starts to play, an awful noise sounds, Honk-eeyyoww! And each time, he hears the same angry cry, 'You can't play here!'

Poor Gregor goes from house, to loch, to barn and to hillside disturbing people, until he finds acceptance in the most unlikely of places.

Angus Corby is a landscape architect who lives in Fife. Reading to his three daughters inspired him to illustrate and write a picture book for children. His grandfather was once a piper fo...
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Muddles Puddles and Sunshine Your Activity Book to Help when Someone has Died. Your Activity Book to Help When Someone Has Died

By: CROSSLEY, DIANA, SHEPPARD, KATE

Price: $22.99

Publisher: United Kingdom, Hawthorn Press Ltd: 2010

Seller ID: 2130

ISBN: 190345896X

Binding: Hardback

colour illustrations throughout
This book offers a structure and an outlet for the many difficult feelings which inevitably follow when someone dies. It aims to help children make sense of their experience by reflecting on the different aspects of their grief, whilst finding a balance between remembering and having fun. This book is a useful companion in the present, and will become an invaluable keepsake in the years to come.
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D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

By: D'AULAIRE

Price: $53.00

Publisher: New York, New York Review of Books:

Seller ID: 11152

ISBN: 159017125X

This beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends tells the stories of Odin the All-father, Thor the Thunder-god and the theft of his hammer, Loki the mischievous god of the Jotun Race, and many other tales. Full color.
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Evie and the Strawberry Patch Rescue

By: DAHLE, STEFANIE

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 15373

ISBN: 1782505601

Binding: Hardback

NOT YET PUBLISHED - DUE MARCH 2019
Please consider ordering in advance
Evie is a determined, ingenious and bright little Strawberry Fairy who lives in an old teapot. Join Evie and her friends, the flower fairies and creatures of Wildberry Woods, on their magical adventures in this first book in the Evie the Strawberry Fairy series.

When Evie's strawberry patch is flooded she needs to find somewhere for her strawberry plants to live -- the flower fairies' garden is too crowded, the pond is too swampy and the woods are too dark. With the help of her friends, Evie moves her pl...
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Evie and the Strawberry Balloon Ride

By: DAHLE, STEFANIE

Price: $26.99

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 15573

ISBN: 1782505946

Evie is an ingenious and bright little Strawberry Fairy who lives in an old teapot. Join Evie and her friends, the flower fairies and creatures of Wildberry Acres, on their magical adventures in this second book in the Evie the Strawberry Fairy series.

Evie is determined to win first prize at the Strawberry Fair with her amazing hot-air balloon! But on the way to the competition the creatures of Wildberry Acres need her help.
What is more important to Evie: winning or helping others?

Stefanie Dahle is a bestselling children's author and illustrator. She is well-known in h...
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Evie and the Strawberry Surprise

By: DAHLE, STEFANIE

Price: $26.99

Seller ID: 15792

ISBN: 1782506381

Binding: Hardback

NOT YET PUBLISHED
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Evie is a determined, ingenious and bright little Strawberry Fairy who lives in an old teapot. Join Evie and her friends, the flower fairies and creatures of Wildberry Acres, on their magical adventures in this third book in the Evie the Strawberry Fairy series.

Something strange is happening in Wildberry Acres: Evie has lost her magic wand, her strawberries have turned bright blue, and strange noises have been heard coming from Berry Woods. Her friends blame the scary creature who has just moved there, but they're in fo...
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Pippa and Pelle in the Winter Snow

By: DANIELA DRESCHER

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Floris Books:

Seller ID: 15156

ISBN: 1782502203

Binding: Board book

One crisp winter morning, Pippa and Pelle wake up to find their home and garden covered in a beautiful white blanket of snow. They set off by sledge and by skis to see what their animal friends are up to. How does the wise owl stay warm? How does the quiet deer find food? Young children will love learning where the busy mouse goes to keep cosy in the winter. Daniela Drescher's unique illustration style will capture any child's imagination and this magical board book is perfect for little hands.
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Wise Enchanter, The A Journey through the Alphabet

By: DAVIDOW, SHELLEY AND KURZYCA, KRYSTYNA

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Steiner Books:

Seller ID: 1160

ISBN: 0880105623

Binding: Paperback

Words are disappearing from the world. Something is lurking in the deepest waters, devouring all the words that are no longer used. No one has noticed, but the world is slowly growing darker.

For many years no children have come to the Enchanted Islands in search of Wisdom, and the Wise Enchanter is growing old. Four children from the corners of the earth have been sent on a quest to rediscover each letter, unlock the treasure of language, and thereby grow wise.
Time is running out; if the children do not reach the castle of the Wise Enchanter in time, Wisdom and light may vanish ...
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