This enchanting story about the arrival of a new baby has a funny and mischievous main character. Little Monster loves Amy, but he doesn’t love the new baby. He starts doing very naughty things. And Amy gets the blame!

Little Monster Did It!

Children's Books

Cooper, Helen

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Puffin Books

A little boy throws food beneath the stairs of his house each day to appease the ferocious grizzly bear that he believes lives in the closet under the stairs. Reprint.

The Bear Under the Stairs (Picture Puffins)

Animals

Puffin

This boy is not ready to go to sleep. So he revs up his little red car and drives away so fast that his mother cannot catch him. He drives to a magical land filled with larger-than-life toys. But the toys are all too tired to play with him. The tiger is too sleepy to practice roaring, the train would rather rest than race, and the musicians insist on playing a lullaby that puts the boy’s car to sleep. How will he get home now? Luckily someone is still awake, and she’s on her way to pick the boy up and tuck him (finally!) into bed. “This charming story will soon become a favorite part of the bedtime ritual.”—School Library Journal

The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed (Picture Puffins)

Literature & Fiction

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Providing essential and up-to-date information on dating and sources, and original analyses of thematic issues, structure, style, rhetoric, and generic relations, the Guides will inspire readers to find new ideas and meaning in Chaucer's works. This premier volume, easily the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales available, brings together a wide range of disparate material, including useful commentary on all aspects of the work. Sure to establish itself as the standard guide to Chaucer's Tales, the book throws new light on the work as a whole, critically discusses each individual tale, and provides a survey of literary responses to the Tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death.

Oxford Guides to Chaucer

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.

British & Irish

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true.   The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.

The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England' as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Great Grandmother Goose, hardcover, Very Good, 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. 95pp. A collection of 80 rhymes from medieval sources. Charming and profuse illustrations by the great Krystyna Turska, including double and full page, vignettes, head and tail-pieces and marginal plaquets. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, bound in bright gilt lettered two coloured brown linen together with unclipped original colour pictorial wraparound dustwrapper very slightly chipped to head of spine not intruding or detracting, now protected in removable transparent wrapper. A delight for reader, scholar or collector alike.

Great Grandmother Goose

Hamish Hamilton

John Trumbull

Arts & Photography

Yale University Press

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Little Monster Did It!

The Bear Under the Stairs (Picture Puffins)

The Boy Who Wouldn't Go to Bed (Picture Puffins)

Oxford Guides to Chaucer

Oxford Guides to Chaucer

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

Great Grandmother Goose

John Trumbull