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Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West.

When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.

From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling?Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential...

"Listen Wise is written from the perspective of a veteran NPR reporter who has been in love with audio storytelling her whole life and created a company to support teachers and students in improving listening skills. It will provide personal anecdotes about listening, as well as classroom stories and teacher viewpoints. It will include research on the neuroscience of listening and auditory learning. It will also offer clear teaching strategies for...

A father relates to his son the tale of his encounter--and friendship--with a gigantic trout whose enormous jaw is covered with so many lures and fish hooks that he jangles when he swims, but who has never been caught.

Twinkle and her classmates at The Fairy School of Magic and Music are going to the library where all the fairies select their favorite story and cast a spell to make it come to life.

Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.

"A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"--

It is late and Crabby just wants to sleep, but Plankton keeps Crabby awake with questions and chatter--until a request for a bedtime story takes an unexpected turn.

Once upon a time there was a book about . . . MONSTERS! No. SPACE ALIENS? Nope . . . a BUNNY! A GIANT SCARY TRUCK-EATING BUNNY?!? Um . . . well, maybe it was a tiny bit big. From the curious mind of Rowboat Watkins comes a ginormously imaginative story that is as funny as it is philosophical. How big is Big Bunny? And how will this story end? Delightfully meta and humorously subversive, Big Bunny will take its place as the next go-to story about stories....