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Oscar Wilde told and retold his fairy tales to friends in private readings, refining them further each time before finally publishing them in two collections between 1888 and 1891 to great acclaim and lasting popularity ever since. Much of their charm is due to Wilde's intention that the stories be "studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness."

This is a story from the Grimms' Fairy Tales 2 collection.

Kids will love learning how wacky words can be with this classic book of tongue twisters from Dr. Seuss! When a fox in socks meets Knox in a box, this rhyming romp is just getting started. Add chicks with bricks, blocks and clocks, chewy blue glue, and a noodle-eating poodle, and you know that...

Peg-legged pirates, colorful parrots, and plundered riches - they're all here in Robert Louis Stevenson's original seafaring adventure. When young Jim Hawkins decides to follow a map to buried treasure, he must befriend or outsmart memorable characters such as pirate Long John Silver, captain Billy Bones, and island man Ben Gunn. Mutinous plans, mysterious deaths, and a tangle of double crosses keep Jim guessing all the way to the prize.

These classic fables use simple allegories to convey universal truths. Though it is unkown if Aesop ever actually existed, dating back to the sixth century, BC, these fables are known in cultures throughout the world and have been translated into many languages.

Discover fundamentals of European culture with a selection of the best stories by Hans Christian Andersen, who is credited with some of the best fairy tales ever written. His stories are a delight for children of all ages; their elegance, wit, and themes transcending age and nationality, makes them suitable for little kids and adults alike. They have inspired numerous adaptations and are positively ageless.

Dance with a lobster, telephone an elephant or knock on a moonlit door - this collection includes magical, macabre, dramatic, funny, bizarre, absurd, delightful, moving and charming poems by Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Grahame and many others. Readers such as Anton Lesser, Simon Russell-Beale and Timothy West bring the lines beautifully to life and make this an ideal introduction to some of the best-loved children's poetry.

"I'm youth, I'm joy...I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." The story of the little boy who refused to grow up has captured the imagination of generations of children (and the adults they grew into) since its publication in 1904. Peter Pan flies in through the bedroom window one night and teaches Wendy, John, and Michael to fly. He takes them away to endless adventures in the magical Neverland, where they meet the wicked Captain Hook and a host of other characters...

Aladdin is a tailor's son who dreams of making his fortune and marrying the Sultan's daughter, but is tricked into becoming apprentice to a cunning magician. He needs Aladdin to do a very special job - climb down into a deep, dark cave and fetch an oil lamp.... A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Stephen Mangan.

Riscopri le fiabe più amate della tua infanzia o conduci un giovane lettore nel magico mondo di uno dei più grandi narratori di sempre, Hans Christian Andersen. Quasi due secoli dopo la loro prima pubblicazione, le fiabe di Andersen rimangono con noi come racconti del bene e del male, dell'amore e della perdita, e della fedeltà attraverso le avversità. Sono facilmente accessibili ai bambini, ma possono anche dare lezioni importanti ai lettori maturi, poiché affrontano temi che vanno oltre l’età e la nazionalità.

"Il principe ranocchio" o "Il re ranocchio" (in tedesco Der Froschkönig) è una fiaba tradizionale europea, nota soprattutto nella versione pubblicata dai fratelli Grimm. Nella fiaba, una principessa fa suo malgrado amicizia con un ranocchio, che si scopre essere un principe tramutato da un incantesimo malvagio.

"Biancaneve", nota anche come "Biancaneve e i sette nani", è una fiaba popolare europea. La versione attualmente conosciuta è quella scritta dai fratelli Jacob e Wilhelm Grimm. La storia racconta che in una giornata d'inverno una regina, mentre è intenta a cucire vicino a una finestra, si punge un dito e, guardando le gocce di sangue sul terreno innevato, esprime il desiderio di avere una figlia con i capelli scuri come l'ebano, la pelle bianca come la neve e le labbra rosse come il sangue; dopo qualche tempo la regina ha una bambina, alla quale dà il nome Biancaneve.

Nothing’s more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children will love listening to Carroll’s many humorous nonsense verses and meeting such unforgettable characters as the Mad Hatter, the Knave of Hearts who steals some tarts, and the grinning Cheshire Cat (in Alice in Wonderland) and Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwock (in Through the Looking Glass).

"The only really living people are children," said Kenneth Grahame, and here the magical life of childhood is played out with vivid imagination as a group of children view themselves as the heroes and the adults in their world as "the Olympians".

When James wakes to see snow falling one December morning, he is delighted and rushes outside to make a snowman. With coal eyes, an old green hat and scarf and a tangerine nose, he is perfect and James can hardly bear to go inside and leave him. In the middle of the night, he wakes and creeps out to see his snowman again - and to his amazement, the snowman comes to life.... This special tale of true Christmas magic will bring everyone's favourite childhood festive character to a brand-new audience.

This reissue of the 1919 classic combines the immortal stories from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into one glorious saga of heroism and magical adventure. Beloved by generations, Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of these epic adventures is remarkably fresh, consistently spellbinding, and unmatched for its richness and poetry.

Drei kleine Schweinchen ziehen um, weit weit weg, in ein Dorf in der Nähe eines Kirschbaumwäldchens. Dort angekommen, will jedes Schweinchen sich ein eigenes Haus bauen. Aber nicht irgendein Haus...

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The Princess and the Pea is the story of a prince who wishes to marry a princess but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. One night a young woman who claims to be a princess arrives at the palace, so the prince's mother decides to test their unexpected guest by placing a pea under her bed, covered by 20 feather mattresses. In the morning, the guest tells her hosts that she had a sleepless night, kept awake by something hard in the bed. So the two are married because only a real princess would be sensitive enough to feel a pea through so much bedding.

The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses. One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince's castle. She claims to be a princess. But how can the prince ascertain she really is? This classic tale tells the story of how he put her to the test.