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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Giants volume 3
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English
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When Pru's little brother Spoon goes missing, she'll need the help of a forest spirit to save him from the lair of Ireland's most fabled supernatural beings: the Fomorian Giants. Presented by Jared Cullum in gorgeous watercolor.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Fairies volume 4
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English
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A young shepherd is lured to the realm of fairies, shrunken down to their size and in awe of their magical lands. He lives in great happiness there until one day he finds a fountain, which the fairies say can provide all of man's desires. The shepherd is enticed, but like many things in the realm of fairies, not everything is what it seems.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Witches volume 2
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English
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Kyla Vanderklugt, artist of SPERA and Archaia's 2014 Free Comic Book Day LABYRINTH story, tells the beautiful Japanese tale of "The Snow Witch" in a gorgeous horizontal format stand-alone issue. When an old woodcutter and his young apprentice are caught in a blizzard, a mysterious woman dressed in white appears and freezes the woodcutter to death before eating his soul. She spares the apprentice if he vows never to tell of what he has seen, but keeping...
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Giants volume 4
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English
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In the final Giants tale, Feifei Ruan tells the Arabic tale of The Fisherman and The Giant, wherein a vengeful king has transformed his people into fish, and a fisherman must work to release the curse.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Giants volume 2
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English
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In this second issue, Brandon Dayton, creator of one of YALSA's 2008 Top Ten Teen Graphic Novels The Green Monk, combines folklore from Russia, Norway, and France with The Tailor's Daughter, a journey that follows a young woman as she outwits an unruly, cruel giant.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Fairies volume 3
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English
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Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings) brings life to the Menehune, the fairies of Hawaiian folklore.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Dragons volume 4
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English
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Final issue! Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award-winner Jorge Corona (We Are Robin, Feathers) presents the tale Samurai's Sacrifice, based on the Japanese folklore of the dragon Yofune Nushi and the young girl who faced him to protect her village.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Fairies volume 2
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English
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Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings) brings life to the Menehune, the fairies of Hawaiian folklore.
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller Witches volume 1
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English
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S.M. Vidaurri, writer and watercolor illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel IRON: OR, THE WAR AFTER, unfolds the stunning tale of "The Magic Swan Goose & the Lord of the Forest." When her brother is kidnapped by a witch, a young princess must venture into the mysterious forest beyond the castle. There, the Lord of the Forest, an armor clad spirit who watches over the wilderness, comes to her aid, but the princess must rely on her wits to discover...
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Raconteur-The Storyteller's Collection, a multi-award-winning quilt, is your next take-anywhere project. Sew a collection of miniature, pieced hexagons from Cinzia White's storytelling sampler. Make the king-size quilt your next long-term project, or pick-and-choose from 359 block designs to make a project of any size! A mix of hand-stitched and machine-pieced 2 ¼" blocks are, organized in 59 collections. Full-size foundation paper patterns are included,...
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Tri is keeping a terrible secret, even from his child hood friend Gwen. A secret Amy has not even uncovered yet, and a secret so well crafted, that it has drawn the attention of the manifestation of lies and a dangerous offrunt to the manifestation of truth.
and what is the secret library of North Bank Forrest?
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High in the rain forest trees, Salvidor the sloth loves to spend his days telling stories. He attracts animal audiences from all around the forest. One day, during a rainstorm, Salvidor starts to tell his audience an exciting tale. But what happens when his audience grows too big? With the crack of a branch, Salvidor tumbles to the rain forest floor and must think up a plan.
73) The storyteller
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2012.
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Wealthy, seventeen-year-old Anna begins to fall in love with her classmate, Abel, a drug dealer from the wrong side of town, when she hears him tell a story to his six-year-old sister, but when his enemies begin turning up dead, Anna fears she has fallen for a murderer.
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A portrait-painter discovers a terrifying side-effect of his talent. A professor of medicine finds himself romantically involved with a dying patient. The lives of two young people are changed forever by a performance of the Mozart Requiem. A self-styled Messiah tries desperately to persuade a writer that he alone can avert a catastrophe about to engulf the city. Serge Liberman's extraordinary characters rise up off the page like apparitions. Whether...
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The legendary country music songwriter known as the Storyteller delivers the genre's most bracing, hilarious, and unique memoir, bringing to life long-gone characters from Nashville's streets and barrooms and detailing his one-of-a-kind journey in music. This expanded edition of Hall's original 1979 book includes never-before-heard poems and vignettes-read by the author-and new chapters that bring us up to date with Hall as he sits with President...
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There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family's house when Isla was a child.
Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.
When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla discovers...
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The Storyteller and Other Tales will take you on a journey through exotic worlds and times.
In the title story, set in the world of Blackdog, Marakand, and Gods of Nabban, demon bears take human shape and devils walk in the north of a world where every hill hosts a god and every river and spring a goddess. Ulfleif, a warrior-princess, who would rather carry a lyre than a sword, is drawn into an unfinished tale by the storyteller Moth, and old lays...
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Learn how to create and tell spellbinding oral stories for the special children in your life with The Storyteller's Kit Box.
Children's author and story weaver Judy Hubbard shows how easy it is to build magical stories using a simple 4 step approach, character, setting, action, and resolution, and an armada of great story themes.
The Storyteller's Kit Box provides helpful tips on story delivery, instructions for creating props bags and story boxes...and...
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Auschwitz, 1942. 'When this is all over, you will be able to tell the world what they did to us.' The Nazis have already ended so many stories way too soon, but can a person truly die if their story lives on? I have to survive. The world needs to know what's happening here…
Stumbling through the terrifying wrought iron gates of Auschwitz, Jewish author Etty Weil longs for her apartment overlooking the Seine, where she used to laugh with friends,...
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