Download or read book Half Upon a Time written by James Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious fractured fairy tale series from New York Times bestselling author James Riley, Jack, and “punk princess” May must navigate twists and turns unlike anything you’ve seen before! Jack lives in a fantasy world. Really. He's the son of the infamous Jack who stole the magic beans from the giant, and he's working hard to restore his family's reputation. He finds the perfect opportunity when a “princess” lands in front of him, apparently from the land of Punk, as her Punk Princess sweatshirt implies. May is from our world, and she’s utterly confused to find herself in the midst of the fairy tale characters she has read about. But Jack and May have more in common than they realize—and together, they embark on a hilarious and wild adventre in this highly accessible, modern middle grade fantasy novel.

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by James Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and mermaids face off in this fractured-fairy tale sequel to Half Upon a Time! Jack and May are back for another adventure in the world of fairy tales with a twist. Now that they know about May’s grandmother’s real intentions, they’re on the hunt to learn May’s true identity. The search for answers leads Jack and May to the world of the Sea King, where they land right in the center of a battle between mermaids and the Pirate Bluebeard. The laughter and action are nonstop in this book from author James Riley—the second in a trilogy!

Download or read book Doctor Who Twice Upon a Time written by Paul Cornell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the new Doctor Who classics. Still reeling from his encounter with the Cybermen, the First Doctor stumbles through the bitter Antarctic wind, resisting the approaching regeneration with all his strength. But as he fights his way through the snowdrifts, he comes across the familiar shape of a blue police box, and a mysterious figure who introduces himself as the Doctor... Thrown together at their most vulnerable moments, the two Doctors must discover why the snowflakes are suspended in the sky, why a First World War Captain has been lifted from his time stream moments before his death, and who is the mysterious Glass Woman who knows their true name. The Doctor is reunited with Bill, but is she all she seems? And can he hold out against the coming regeneration?

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Elizabeth Wanning Harries and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."

Download or read book Sleeping Beauty The One Who Took the Really Long Nap Twice Upon a Time 2 written by Wendy Mass and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girl's been asleep for a hundred years. The boy's got issues of his own. There are two sides to every fairy tale.... It's not easy being Princess Rose. Especially when a fairy curses you and you find yourself avoiding all sharp objects . . . and then end up pricking your finger anyway, causing you to slumber for a hundred years or so.And it's not easy being The Prince. Especially when your mother has some ogre blood and tends to chow down at the most unfortunate moments. A walk in the woods would help, you think. Until you find a certain hidden castle . . . and a certain sleeping beauty. Happily ever after? Not until the prince helps the princess awaken . . . and brings her home to Mother.Journey back to the days when fairy tales were true with this fun and fresh spin on a timeless tale!

Download or read book Robin Hood The One Who Looked Good in Green Twice Upon a Time 4 written by Wendy Mass and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new story in the Twice Upon A Time series from Wendy Mass! There's two sides to every story . . . this time it's Robin Hood and Maid Marian like you've never seen them before.

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Carolyn Jones and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada. This book was released on 1972 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Judy Sierra and published by [Bronx, NY] : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty traditional folktales for use with children between the ages of eight and twelve with instructions of how to do creative dramatics and storytelling for each story.

Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Wendy Mass and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendy Mass tells the story of Beauty and the Beast, as never heard before When you're stuck with the name Beauty, people expect a lot from you - like beauty and grace and courage and a sense of style. But what if you have none of these things? What if all you like to do is read books and search for odd objects that other people drop? Oh, and you have a perfect older sister who really should have had your name instead of you. And when you're a prince, you're supposed to be athletic and commanding and brave and tall. But what if you are none of those things? What if all you like to do is play the bagpipes (badly), study the stars, and try to figure out how to make worms live forever? Oh, and you also have a perfect older brother who is a lot more princely than you'll ever be.

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Catharine Bomhold and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to over three hundred classic folk and fairy tales retold in picture books for children, with annotations discussing settings, themes, and comparisons with the original.

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Daniel Stern and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVMore sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel Stern/divDIV In Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature—from Forster to Freud—in homage to their authors and the power of great writing.Twice Upon a Time continues the project, though this time Stern goes further, weaving stories around texts as diverse as Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. In “Bartleby the Scrivener,” Melville’s famous copyist is relocated to Hollywood; the hero is an agent who “would prefer not to retire.”/divDIV Infectiously clever, Twice Upon a Time enchants like the best of the authors to whom it pays tribute./divDIV/div/div

Download or read book Twice Upon a Marigold written by Jean Ferris and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of zany humor, this sequel to "Once Upon a Marigold" continues the story of Christian and Marigold, who are living happily ever after now that Queen Olympia has gone--or has she?

Download or read book Twice Upon Time written by Nina Beaumont and published by Aventurine Pres. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you went back in time to relive a life you had once lived? Sarah Longford leads a threadbare existence in Victorian London. But her nights are filled with dreams of a passion-filled life under the hot Italian sun—a life familiar to her because it was her own in another time. A slip through time allows Sarah to live again as the tempestuous Bianca who had sold herself in marriage for the riches and power she craved, only to discover that what she really wanted was Alessio, her husband’s brother. Can Sarah relive Bianca’s life without repeating her terrible mistakes?

Download or read book The Man Who Died Twice written by Richard Osman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment “It’s taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers. . . The Man Who Died Twice. . . dives right into joyous fun." —The New York Times Book Review Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim—the Thursday Murder Club—are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper’s Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor—an old pal of Elizabeth’s (or perhaps more than just a pal?)—arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he’s seriously on the lam. Then, as night follows day, the first body is found. But not the last. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them? And if they find the diamonds, too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus? You should never put anything beyond the Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman is back with everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of the Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first—an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read.

Download or read book Twice in a Lifetime written by Helga Jensen and published by Hera books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I simply couldn’t put this down. I laughed out loud several times before I’d even finished the first chapter.’ Jules Wake, author of The Spark and The Saturday Morning Park Run Amelia might have met The One. But is she twenty years too late? After her husband left her out of the blue, the only relationship 48-year-old Amelia Simpson has enjoyed recently is with Nutella and Pinot Grigio. While her 8-year-old twin boys, Jasper and Rupert, keep her busy, Amelia dreams of a life more than washing muddy rugby kits and weekly chats with best friends Sian and Jamie. Amelia needs some magic back in her life – but magic seems in short supply in her small Welsh town. So when she finds the phone number that was given to her twenty years ago by a handsome stranger in New York, Amelia wonders whether he might be The One That Got Away. But when Sian takes matters into her own hands, launching a worldwide hunt to find the handsome stranger Amelia met outside Tiffany’s two decades ago, Amelia finds herself on a flight to the Big Apple to reconnect with her ‘Perfect Patrick’. But as the two explore the sights of NYC, has Amelia reconnected with The One? Or will she discover that the sparkle she was missing is actually closer to home? A gorgeously funny and heart-warming debut romcom for fans of Sophie Ranald, Jo Watson and Beth O’Leary. Readers are falling in love with Twice in a Lifetime: ‘A joyous tale of rediscovering your dreams, love and sense of self. Sheer fun and absolute UpLit!’ Pernille Hughes, Author, Probably the Best Kiss in the World ‘I love this book so much! All I wanted was for it not to end! It's right there on my top romcoms list now.’ Natalie Normann, author of Summer Island ‘Wow, just wow...Right from chapter one I was hooked...It's funny, cute and romantic and that twist...What more can you ask for?’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘Such a cute read I read it in one sitting. This book had me smiling.’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘What a fantastic read! I enjoyed the characters in the book and the story line! This was a fun, fast read’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review ‘This book is a GEM! It’s painfully funny, totally real and the twists and turns, oh my goodness gracious!...such a feel good book.’ Reader Review ‘What an enchanting novel...I certainly laughed out loud numerous times!’ ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review

Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Lisa Ann Verge and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice Upon a Time is a dazzling new historical romance introducing a pair of star-crossed lovers who meet in Ireland in 513 A.D. Cruelly separated by fate, they find themselves reunited in France in 1249 A.D. when the immortal hero finds his true love reincarnated.

Download or read book Rapunzel the One With All the Hair Twice Upon a Time 1 written by Wendy Mass and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girl's stuck in a tower. The boy's stuck in a castle. There are two sides to every fairy tale . . . . Rapunzel is having the ultimate bad day. She's been stolen by a witch, may have a ghost for a roommate, and doesn't even have a decent brush for her hair.Prince Benjamin's got it pretty tough, too. His father wants him to be more kingly, his mother wants him to never leave her sight, and his cousin wants to get him into as much trouble as possible (possibly with a troll).Both Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are trapped--in very different ways. Once their paths cross, well, that's when things get really strange.Journey back to the days when fairy tales were true with this fun and fresh spin on a timeless tale!