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  • - Horse hooves and chicken feet: traditional Mexican stories
    af Neil Philip
    99,95 kr.

    Magical tales of enchantment and transformation, with context notes and gorgeous Mexican folk art-inspired illustrations by Jacqueline Mair.

  • af Neil Philip
    527,95 kr.

    The world of children's poetry is as diverse and as miraculous as the human imagination itself, a land where owls and pussy-cats set to sea in beautiful pea-green boats, and tigers burn bright in the forests of the night. It embraces word play, parody, nonsense, lullaby, and elegy, and ranges from brief nursery rhymes to long narratives. It can be utterly silly, but it also recognizes that if children's lives are full of wonder and delight, they are also fraught with worries, disappointments, and moments of sadness. The best children's poets come to terms with grief as well as joy. Now, in The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Neil Philip has surveyed and mapped this delightfully protean landscape, in a book that spans some two hundred and fifty years, from Isaac Watts, the first true children's poet, to such classic figures as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and A. A. Milne, to scores of contemporary writers, such as Richard Wilbur, Sandra Cisneros, and Jack Prelutsky. The range of poems is remarkable. Young readers will find long narratives such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" ("Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere") and Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" ("Rats! / They fought the dogs and killed the cats") as well as Mick Gowar's "Rat Trap," a political satire that parodies Browning's poem. The book also includes many miniature gems, such as Ogden Nash's "The Eel" ("I don't mind eels / Except at meals, / And the way they feels") and Hughes Mearns's "The Little Man" ("As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there; / He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away"). There is of course much zany verse, such as Hilaire Belloc's "Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and was Eaten by a Lion" ("Now, just imagine how it feels / When first your toes and then your heels, / And then by gradual degrees, / Your shins and ankles, calves and knees, / Are slowly eaten, bit by bit. / No wonder Jim detested it!"), Eugene Field's classic "The Duel" ("The gingham dog and the calico cat / Side by side on the table sat"), and A.A. Milne's "Disobedience" ("James James / Morrison Morrison / Weatherby George Dupree / Took great / Care of his Mother, / Though he was only three"). And Philip has also included many thought-provoking poems, such as Langston Hughes's "Children's Rhymes" ("By what sends / the white kids / I ain't sent: / I know I can't / be President"), Countee Cullen's "Incident" ("Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger, / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger'"), and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" ("The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy; / But I hung on like death: / Such waltzing was not easy"). Ranging from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," to Robert Frost's "The Pasture," to John Updike's "January," here is an anthology that captures the full breadth of children's verse in English. It will delight children of all ages, and launch the young on a life-long appreciation of poetry.

  • af Neil Philip
    146,95 kr.

    "With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, this comprehensive, entertaining and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Philip Pullman and the Brothers Grimm. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o'-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find "Jack the Giantkiller", "Tom Tit Tot" and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms' "Little Snow White" - as well as bedtime frighteners, including "Captain Murderer", as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale's journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring." --

  • - 20 classic stories including The Black Cat, Lutey and the Mermaid, and The Fiddler in the Cave
    af Neil Philip
    118,95 kr.

    An anthology of classic stories, retold by a renowned folklorist, and beautifully illustrated with intricate paintings by Isabelle Brent.

  • - Sixteen stories from Sheherazade
    af Neil Philip
    118,95 kr.

    A retelling of sixteen of the enthralling stories by a renowned folklorist, including Aladdin and Ali Baba, with evocative illustrations by Sheila Moxley.

  • - 12 enchanting stories including The Christmas Cuckoo and The Nutcracker
    af Neil Philip
    118,95 kr.

    A festive collection of classic seasonal stories, retold by a renowned folklorist, and beautifully illustrated with intricate paintings by Isabelle Brent.

  • - Odin's family and other tales of the Norse Gods
    af Neil Philip
    108,95 kr.

    Explore the Norse myths in exciting retellings, with context notes, evoked in bold, eloquent illustrations by Maryclare Foa.

  • af Hans Christian Andersen & Neil Philip
    118,95 kr.

    A sparkling anthology of 17 classic children's stories from the pen of Hans Christian Andersen, retold by Neil Philip and gorgeously illustrated by Isabelle Brent.

  • - The flying ship and other traditional stories
    af Neil Philip
    118,95 kr.

    A wonderful collection of twenty-two fairy tales that draw on the classic folklore of Eastern Europe - stories of romance and adventure, love and deceit, walking houses and flying ships, with evocative illustrations by Larry Wilkes.

  • - Stockings of buttermilk: traditional stories from the United States of America
    af Neil Philip
    108,95 kr.

    Vivid traditional tales from around the USA, simply retold and with context notes, gorgeously illustrated throughout by Jacqueline Mair in her distinctive hand-stitched folk-art style.

  • af Neil Philip
    128,95 kr.

    The world's great fables, sagas and legends dramatically retold

  • af Neil Philip
    126,95 kr.

    A comprehensive anthology of best-loved verse for all ages, beautifully illustrated by Isabelle Brent.

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