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3) Tom Thumb
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Language
English
Description
Relates a tiny boy's adventure in a cow's mouth, a fish's belly, on the back of a mouse, and at a king's table. Includes reading actvities.
6) Robin Hood
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Language
English
Description
Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
8) King Arthur
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Language
English
Description
A retelling of the story of the boy fated to be the "Once and Future King," covering his glorious reign and his tragic, yet triumphant, passing. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
12) Godiva
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English
Description
With only her long hair as a cloak, Lady Godiva takes her heroic ride through the English village of Coventry in exchange for her husband's promise to lower the people's taxes.
13) Up the chimney
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Language
English
Description
A retelling of an English folktale in which two sisters who go out to seek their fortune receive very different treatment.
15) The Green Mist
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Language
English
Description
A retelling of a Lincolnshire, England, tale, probably eighteenth-century, in which a dying child is made well by the spring rituals intended to placate the mischievous beings hiding in the earth.
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Language
Español
Description
When Jack sells his family's cow for magic beans, his mother is anything but pleased. Soon, however, the beans sprout into a towering beanstalk. It leads to a castle filled with gold and other treasures. Jack's family will be rich, if he can sneak past the man-eating giant!
Cuando Jack vende la vaca de la familia a cambio de unos frijoles mágicos, su madre no está nada contenta. Sin embargo, pronto los frijoles se convierten en una empinada planta...