Download or read book Then a Penguin Walked In and Other Tall Tales written by Steeven R. Orr and published by Steeven R. Orr. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take one sword-wielding penguin, add a time traveling cowboy, and throw in more zombies than you can shake a stick at. Mix it all together and that's just a taste of what you'll find in this all new collection of four novellas by Steeven R. Orr. This quirky collection opens with "Then a Penguin Walked In", a fantasy tale about Dominick Hanrahan, a fast food cook surrounded in the gray of day to day dullness and drudgery. Then a penguin walked in, taking Dominick from a life of tedium and thrusting him into a world he never knew existed. But is he destined to save his new home? Next is "Fanboys of Doom" in which former police officer and survivor of the zombie apocalypse, desperate to add the Holy Grail of comics to his mobile man cave, will risk being eaten alive by a bevy of zombie fanboys to gain his prize. Then, in "The Undead of the Night", a group of strangers find themselves trapped in a convenience store in the middle of nowhere as the dead rise to feast. But not everything is as it seems. (A Norman Oklahoma adventure). And in the last tale of this collection, "The Other Gunfight", an icon of the Old West travels in time to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on a mission to stop a fellow time traveler from killing the wrong person. Humorous, exciting, and just a bit weird, "Then a Penguin Walked In and Other Tall Tales" is the book you didn't know you needed until now.
Download or read book Holliday s Gold written by Steeven R. Orr and published by Steeven R. Orr. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman with hair of gold, on the run for her life… The Beast who will stop at nothing to find her… The rookie cop who just wants to do the right thing… And the three bears who got in the way. Read the debut novel by Steeven R. Orr that tells the Goldilocks fairy tale like it’s never been told before.
Download or read book The Adventures of Norman Oklahoma Volume One written by Steeven R. Orr and published by Steeven R. Orr. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I woke this morning to find a walrus sitting at my kitchen table. Things sorta went downhill from there. My name is Norman Oklahoma. I’m a private investigator who specializes in the supernatural, the unexplained, and the just plain weird. In other words, I kick the monsters out of your closet and drag them out from under your bed. I hunt the things that go bump in the night and crack them upside the head with the stock of an antique Winchester. These are my stories. Collecting the first three tales from the ongoing online serial, join Norman as he battles goblins, ogres, vampires, crazed cult members, and even a mutant walrus man. This isn't Urban Fantasy, this is Rural Fantasy.
Download or read book Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups written by Tadgh Bentley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Little Penguin has a major case of the HIC! hiccups. It all started last week on chili night. Since then he's tried everything to get rid of them, but nothing HIC! works. So when his friend Franklin suggests that a good scare might do the trick, Little Penguin is willing to give it a try. . . . All he needs is a little help from YOU! Can you help Little Penguin HIC! cure his hiccups? From debut author-illustrator Tadgh Bentley, Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups is a sweetly hilarious tale of icebergs, chili, and playful surprises that puts its readers at the very center of the story.
Download or read book Your Personal Penguin written by Sandra Boynton and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Personal Penguin is an irrepressible, read-aloud, listen-along favorite for young children and the grown-ups who read to them. Fun to hold, the book tells the story of a slightly bewildered hippo and the loyal penguin who wants nothing more than to be his pal: Now, lots of other penguins seem to be fine in a universe of nothing but ice. But if I could be yours, and you could be mine, Our cozy little world would be twice as nice. I want to be Your Personal Penguin. The original song "Your Personal Penguin," sung by Davy Jones of The Monkees, is available for download.
Download or read book Fairy Tales in Popular Culture written by Martin Hallett and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn’t so long ago that the fairy tale was comfortably settled as an established and respectable part of children’s literature. Since the fairy tale has always been a mirror of its times, however, we should not be surprised that in the latter part of the twentieth century it turned dark and ambiguous; its categorical distinction between good and evil was increasingly at odds with the times. Yet whatever changes the fairy tale may have undergone, its cultural popularity has never been greater. Fairy Tales in Popular Culture sets out to show how the tale has been adapted to meet the needs of the contemporary world; how writers, film-makers, artists, and other communicators have found in its universality an ideal vehicle for speaking to the here-and-now; and how social media have created a participatory culture that has re-invented the fairy tale. A selection of recent retellings show how the tale is being recalibrated for the contemporary world, first through the word and then through the image. In addition to the introductions that precede each section, the anthology provides a selection of critical pieces that offer lively insight into various aspects of the fairy tale as popular culture.
Download or read book Doctor Who Time Lord Fairy Tales written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all stories, in the end . . . A stunning illustrated collection of fifteen dark and ancient fairy tales from the world of Doctor Who. These captivating stories include mysterious myths and legends about heroes and monsters of all kinds, from every corner of the universe. Originally told to young Time Lords at bedtime, these twisted tales are an enchanting read forDoctor Who fans of all ages. Written by Justin Richards and illustrated by David Wardle.
Download or read book Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Per written by Angela Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely regarded as one of England’s most imaginative writers, adapted them for contemporary readers. The result is a cornucopia of fantastic characters and timeless adventures, stylishly retold by a modern literary visionary. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Penguin Flies Home written by Lita Judge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin mastered his quest to soar with the eagles in Flight School—now he’s heading home to teach his friends in this sweet and inspiring stand-alone companion story! Penguin loves everything about flying: the wind beneath his wings, the song that rises from his belly, and the sight of new and wonderful places. Still, he misses his penguin friends in the South Pole. So, he flips and flaps back home, ready to teach them the magic of flight! But when he arrives, his enthusiasm for flying doesn’t get quite the reaction he expected. Will Penguin’s friends still like him, even if they don’t share his soaring dreams?
Download or read book The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales written by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Cinderella Penguin written by Janet Perlman and published by Crow Cottage Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic tale of Cinderella featuring a cast of Penguins! Cinderella Penguin's evil stepsisters envy her dainty flippers and make her do all the chores. The Great Fairy Penguin changes the heroine into the Penguin Prince's dreamboat, and in the end it is Cinderella who fits into the glass flipper. Based on the Academy Award-nominated NFB animated film, this is a Cinderella story for the 21st century. Recommended reading ages 4 - 8
Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales written by George MacDonald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.
Download or read book Magic Flirts 5 Romantic Short Stories written by Lisa Scott and published by Lisa Scott. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is a magical thing, especially when witches, ghosts, and Cupid are involved. Magic Flirts! features five short, fun romances laced with enchanted elements. The stories stand alone but are connected when read together. Each story is between 9,000 and 13,000 words—perfect for lunch breaks or kids’ sports practices. But don’t be surprised if you read them in one sitting! The collection is 50,000 words total. If you get hooked on these fun reads—good news! There are nine other Flirts! volumes and more to come. As Flirts! fans say: “Simply wonderful.” “… a fun mix of sexy and romantic.” “Lisa Scott somehow packs a big story into less pages.” “I couldn't put it down for anything in the world.” “I hate short stories but I loved these.” “I found a new addiction. FLIRTS!!!!” Stories in this volume include: “Hex Addict” Short story #1: 9000 words Vicky is a witch who enjoys that special feeling she gets when casting love spells on humans. Handsome Drake is an enforcer in the witching world who opposes her work. When he accuses her of being a hex addict, her love spell backfires and hits the two of them. Now that these enemies are smitten, Vicky wonders whether she wants the spell reversed. “The Ghost’s Guide to Dating” Short story #2: 9000 words Julie can see ghosts, including her grandmother, who insists she play matchmaker for her friends in the afterworld. When these golden ghouls aren’t haunting strip clubs, they’re busy meddling in their families’ love lives. But when one ghost asks Julie to set up her granddaughter with a handsome guy at a wedding, Julie decides she wants him for herself. Now Julie must either face the wrath of an angry spirit, or give up a guy she’s fallen for. “Cupid School Dropout” Short story #3: 10,000 words In order to obtain immortality, Val is training to become one of Cupid’s agents, and his final exam is a doozy. He has to help jaded Jacey find love, even though she’s convinced she doesn’t want it. But when he falls for her, there’s a big price for Val to pay if he wants to be with her forever. “Charmed” Short story #4: 9,000 words Alana makes a wish on a love charm that she buys at an antique store: she wants to find a redheaded Scotsman like the character in a favorite book. The next day, her wish seems to have come true when she meets Doug—he’s tall, has red hair, and a killer Scottish accent. Unfortunately, Doug has a secret that threatens to ruin everything. Is there any way to save their charmed romance? “Dream Guy” Short story #5: 13,000 words Occasionally, Kim has “shiny” dreams that come true. And she’s been having one about her future groom—a guy she’s never met—for years. But when she bumps into him one day, he runs away from her. In fact, he runs every time he sees her. Which is often, since she keeps bumping into him in the strangest places. What’s this guy got against Kim anyway, and how is she going to marry a man who won’t even speak to her? Look for Lisa's other collections: Flirts!, Beach Flirts!, Holiday Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts!, Wedding Flirts!, More Flirts!, Reunion Flirts! Fairy Tale Flirts 2!, and Office Flirts! Look for another Flirts! collection in early 2015 and check out Lisa's Willowdale Romance novel series.
Download or read book The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales written by George MacDonald and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald’s Victorian fairy tales transformed the genre of fantasy. His work also shaped the next generation of both children’s literature and modernism: C.S. Lewis regarded MacDonald as a major influence, and writers as diverse as G.K Chesterton and W.H. Auden acknowledged his significance. His best known story for children, The Princess and the Goblin, tells the story of a lonely child princess and her friend, a brave miner boy, in their battle with subterranean monsters. Along with The Princess and the Goblin, this edition includes four other major fairy stories by MacDonald, as well as a selection of historical documents on the works’ composition and reception, Victorian fairy tales, and MacDonald’s literary criticism.
Download or read book Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *National Bestseller* The acclaimed retelling of the world’s best-loved fairy tales by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass and The Book of Dust—now in paperback, and with 3 new tales! Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” and “Hansel and Gretel” have become deeply woven into the Western imagination. Now Philip Pullman, the New York Times bestselling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm. Here are Pullman’s fifty favorites—a wide-ranging selection that includes the most popular stories as well as lesser-known treasures like “The Three Snake Leaves,” “Godfather Death,” and “The Girl with No Hands”—alongside his personal commentaries on each story’s sources, variations, and everlasting appeal. Suffused with romance and villainy, danger and wit, Pullman’s beguiling retellings will cast a spell on readers of all ages. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Singing Turtle and Other Folk and Fairy Tales written by Dianne Stewart and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the stranger, who knocked at the city gates during a storm, really a princess? What kind of friend could a frog be? Read ‘The Frog Prince’ to find out. If you want to know why the animals were afraid of the proud elephant, Karpuratilaka, read the Indian tale in this collection to find your answer. Could the turtle really fly? A West Indian folktale reveals how the turtle took to the skies. Read about the party for the long-tailed animals in author Dianne Stewart’s original African folktale, ‘A Dance in the Moonlight’. This collection of fairy and folktales from around the world, is beautifully illustrated by Heidi-Kate Greeff and will be enjoyed by adult and child alike.
Download or read book The Classic Fairy Tales Second Edition Norton Critical Editions written by Maria Tatar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I have used this textbook for four courses on children’s literature with enrollments of over ninety students. It is without doubt the most well organized selection of literary fairy tales and critical commentaries currently available. Students love it.” —Lita Barrie, California State University, Los Angeles This Norton Critical Edition includes: · Seven different tale types: “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” “Bluebeard,” and “Tricksters.” These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. · Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. · More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Lüthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jörg Uther. · A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.
