An adventurous clownfish leaves the safety of her anemone host to go exploring and encounters colorful friends and enemies around the coral reef

Curious Clownfish

Maddern, Eric

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

When the world was being born, only rough and crabby Crocodile Man possessed the gift of fire, and he was unwilling to share it, so Bird Woman thinks of a plan to trick Crocodile Man into sharing fire.

Rainbow Bird: An Aboriginal Folktale from Northern Australia

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

"I'm boss for Fire," growls rough, tough Crocodile Man, and he keeps the rest of the world cold and dark - until one day clever Bird Woman sees her opportunity and seizes it! This traditional aboriginal fire myth from Northern Australia, simply retold and lit by glowing illustrations, will delight children and parents everywhere.

Rainbow Bird

Literature & Fiction

Frances Lincoln Limited

Earth Story

Science, Nature & How It Works

Frances Lincoln Childrens Books

King With Horse's Ears

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

Life Story

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Northwest Wales—Old Gwynedd—is one of the most mythic parts of Britain, and if you dig beneath the surface of modern life you will find stories whose roots go back more than 2,000 years. The legends and folktales that have survived are windows into the worlds of our ancestors. A selection of such tales from Snowdonia is what you hold in your hand right now. Herein professional storyteller Eric Maddern retells ancient tales from across the kingdom of Gwynedd, from the majestic mountains of Snowdonia to the bracing Isle of Anglesey, in a fresh, contemporary style.

Snowdonia Folk Tales

History

Europe

The History Press

The Fire Children

A retelling of the West African tale about the creation of the world and all its different peoples

Dial

Death In a Nut

A feisty boy learns a powerful lesson about life and death in this beautifully illustrated story based on a Scottish folktale. When Jack meets Old Man Death coming toward his cottage, he stands firm. "You're not taking my mother!" he cries, and piles into Death with his fists. With each punch, Death gets smaller and smaller until Jack is able to squeeze him inside a hazelnut shell. He throws the nut far out to sea, and goes home. Suddenly trouble begins: eggs won't break, the cockerel's neck "unwrings" itself, and the butcher confesses that he can't slaughter any livestock. What has Jack done? Eric Maddern's droll text and Paul Hess's vivid watercolors enrich this traditional tale about learning one of life's basic truths.

Death in a Nut

Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Eric Maddern takes young readers on an amazing journey to reveal the origins of the planet Earth, starting at the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe to the very first forms of life on Earth.

Lincoln Children's Books

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