Showing results for "August" in Literature & Fiction

Su cara lo hace distinto y él solo quiere ser uno más. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha, y con el flequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun así, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados y codazos de asombro. August sale poco. Su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, entre la compañía de su familia, su perra Daisy, y las increíbles historias de La guerra de las galaxias.

Family storytelling at its most hilarious, the Maynard Moose tales of Willy Claflin entertain all ages. An excellent choice for family car trips, these whimsical retellings excite young imaginations and delight young and old with their creative use of language.

A timeless folktale from India about how three lazy sons are tricked by their mother into working for what they think will be gold, but instead they discover the true riches that come from hard work.

In this story from India, a farmer's three lazy sons don't want to work. They sit around dreaming of making a lot of gold. When their mother tells them of gold buried in a field, they ask her how to bring the gold to the surface. Through clever suggestions, their mother explains how to thed the fields as they discover the true riches offered by hard work. Illustrated by Tom Wrenn.

Traditional values abound in these hilarious stories from Appalachia: friendship, family, orderliness, humor, and delight in an especially inventive practical joke.

Around the world each night, parents tell stories to children as they put them to bed. Margaret Read MacDonald - a folklorist, storyteller, and children's librarian - uses bedtime tales in the daytime to end her story hours on a calm note. Here, with accompaniment on dulcimer and autoharp by musician Richard Scholtz, she includes seven of her favorites from around the world.

It started out as a small zombie problem. Then four more zombies tagged along. Now there are too many to count! From the acclaimed illustrator of Flora & Ulysses comes the exciting conclusion to the Zombie Problems trilogy. After facing an alligator attack and a paddle boat accident in search of...

Hvad sker der med de ting, folk går og glemmer. Og når folk glemmer hinanden? Det finder August og Omar ud af, da de begiver sig ud på et halsbrækkende eventyr for at redde deres glemte ven ud af Borteherskerens kløer. En spændende og underfundig oplæsningsbog til cartoon-network-generationen. En historie man ikke lige glemmer.

En skæbnesvanger nat bliver alle de historier Mormor har fortalt August, siden han var lille, virkelige. Kaptajnen der sejlede på De Syv Have, Den fede dame der lokkede skibene på grund. Og spøgelsespigen Rikke, der altid har drømt om at få en legekammerat som August.

Men hvor er Augusts mormor? Hvad er det for en mærkelig billet, August tager imod? Og hvad sker der med folk når de dør? Sammen med Rikke begiver August sig ud på en rejse gennem natten og sneen med både nervepirrende spænding og morsomme optrin undervejs.

En selvstændig fortsættelse til August går i Glemmebogen.

"Extremely fun and heartfelt... we can't stop listening!" The Kluxen brothers (ages 9 & 13) --Asbury Park, NJ. I found the handwritten pages of this true cozy-adventure-mystery story after it washed onto the shore of August Island, NJ. There is no author listed. Written for ages 9-135, I am hoping you can help me figure out who wrote it while solving the mystery along with the Young Detectives. SYNOPSIS: When twelve-year-old Lucy and her fellow Young Detectives are hired to find a kidnapped pet parrot of unknown origin and incredible linguistic ability, the pack of friends uncover ancient ...

Expanding upon the four-line nursery rhyme, storyteller David Novak spins an epic tale as young Itsy prepares to attempt what no spider has done before: scale the water spout. A nervous Mother Bitsy prepares her little Itsy as nourishing lunch; a fly salad sandwich, a bag of grasshopper chips, and a bottle of fresh-squeezed moth juice (100% natural). The result is an epic on a child's scale, in which determination, concentration, and grit are championed.

Gemütlich treibt der 8-jährige August auf einem aufblasbaren Gummi-Krokodil mitten auf dem Meer. Eigentlich hätte er jetzt gern ein Eis, stattdessen begegnet er Juli. Die schippert da ganz lässig auf ihrem Floß herum. Das Floß ist ihr Zuhause, bestens ausgestattet mit Hängematte, Huhn und einer Meerwasserdusche. Nur zu gerne würde August bei Juli als Schiffsjunge anheuern. Aber Juli lässt nicht jeden auf ihr Floß, erst muss August beweisen, dass er geeignet ist. Nach und nach freunden die zwei sich an und erleben gemeinsam die Abenteuer, Gefahren und Glücksmomente eines Vagabunden-Lebens auf hoher See.

Slow but steady Turtle exhibits wisdom, perseverance, and cunning in these world folktales. Full of adventure that's sure to captivate young listeners, these tales hold meaning for all ages.

August Wilson grew up open to the creative inspiration in everything he encountered: in library books, in music, in artworks, in the lively conversations overheard in the restaurants and barbershops lining the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood. August paid attention. He listened. And when he got older, he got ideas about what to do with everything he’d seen and heard—ideas that would make him one of the greatest playwrights in American history.

It is the time and place of August Skies as parent and child lie together looking up into the night sky. High above, Little Star and Big Star are also looking out into the galaxy together. The time has come for Little Star to shoot across the sky to a new place, creating its own beautiful light. Little Star and Big Star feel excited, anticipating this new beginning, but there is also worry. Will Little Star's doubts prevent its beautiful light from shining?

The four original stories on this highly praised recording were inspired by an October moon in New England.

This coming-of-age story employs storyteller Donald Davis' trademark descriptions and humor to address the question - are braces worth all the pain and embarrassment?

When the animals all get together in the jungle, they discover that the noise that they have been making is indeed music. Dylan Pritchett weaves a tale that helps us disover that we all have music inside just waiting to come out. Illustrated by Erin Bennett Banks.

In this Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare", storyteller Tim Tingle reveals some unexpected twists and expands the cast to include a wild turkey, a colony of ants, and a cheering squad of Little Bitty Turtles.

In the land of moss, magnolias, and bayous, ghost stories suffuse the landscape like mist on a moonlit swamp. Swamp ghosts, hot-tempered villains and tricksters once lived there, and live on today in such blood-chilling stories as the six in this collection.