This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. Notes explain each goddess's place in her culture.[...]
Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.[...]
Offers prose translations from four portions of Chaucer's classic poem relating the stories of a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury[...]
Relates how Hershel outwits the goblins that haunt the old synagogue and prevent the village people from celebrating Hanukkah[...]
"Peter Pan" is a fantasy of extraordinary imagination, and a national treasure. It has everything--airborne children, mocking mermaids, bloodthirsty pirates, and a homicidal crocodile with a nasty tick. In this novelization of the original play, J.M. Barrie brings the cast and the action of the dram[...]