"A small-format gift anthology includes eighty poems by Dickinson, an accompanying essay by Jane Langton on the poet's life and work in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a collection of accompanying paintings and drawings."
"Roald Dahl Centennial, 1916 2016 By the author of "The BFG" now a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg astunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl s beloved "James and the Giant Peach, "featuring a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the "New York Times "bestselling author of "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane the original interior art from the 1961 first edition ..."
""Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Gri ..."
"From the illustrator of the classic edition of Snow-White and the Seven DwarfsOn a ridge above the Kalihari,Lion naps, until Mouse bumbles into him, willy-nilly, startling him awake.After a show of teeth, Lion is softenedby Mouse's pledge of loyaltyand sets him free. When a cold moon brings a humbling lesson, Lion comes to recognizeMouse's keen skill, and deeper kindness.Mouse and Lion, Aesop's fabled duo,renew their ancient bond in th ..."
""Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Gri ..."
"Everything depends on them....When Georgie Hall decides to walk from Concord, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., with a letter to the President and an old flag capable of producing magical visions, no one doubts that she has the will or ability to do it. Along with her stepcousins Eleanor and Eddy, Georgie begins the Children's Crusade to stop the President from building a globally fatal nuclear bomb, known as the Peace Missile. But 45 ..."
"When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find". Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts' withere ..."
"A stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl’s beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring—a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane—the original interior art from the 1961 first edition—French flaps and deckle-edge paperRoald Dahl's perennial bestseller about a boy's magical journey across the se ..."
"Roald Dahl Centennial, 1916–2016By the author of The BFG—now a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg—a stunning 50th-anniversary deluxe edition of Roald Dahl’s beloved James and the Giant Peach, featuring—a new introduction by Aimee Bender, the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—cover art by the award-winning cartoonist Jordan Crane—the original interior art from the 1961 first edition—French ..."
"When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened old man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts' withered pea ..."
"Wonderful selection of this great poet's greatest, most popular poems. Includes "There's a certain slant of light," "Because I could not stop for death," "It was not death for I stood up." 256 pages."
" Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowing ..."
"Shooting high and long, Brian Davis racks up winning points for the Jefferson Patriots in his first few games. But when the other teams get wise and start blocking his shots, the Patriots begin to look bad.Brain knows that unless he beefs up his small-town long-shot style and gets on the offense, he'll be benched for the season. With the help of his coach and a street-wise Jefferson High dropout who was once a star letterman, he trains ..."
" This gorgeous collection of art (and the artists behind it) includes work by some of the world's most renowned children's book illustratorsMitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Eric Carle, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provenson, Robert Sabuda, Matthew Reinhart, Maurice Sendak, Gennady ..."
""Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Gri ..."
""Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Gri ..."