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Language
English
Description
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages. We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aaesop's fables -- their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined: the victim might not lose; the timid get a chance to become strong;...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.
6) The big box
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Cloud does not want to join the other clouds in terrorizing the earth with storms, but grows lonely and longs to look closer at mountains and seas, until Lady Wind makes her dream come true in this version of the fable, "The bundle of sticks."
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jamey Tortoise is smarter than anyone else and Jimi Hare is faster, but when a race is announced each consults a reporter about how to get what he really wants when and if he should win in this updated twist on the familiar fable.