A long time ago, there was a brave and kind Anglo-Saxon princess called Frideswide who lived in Oxford, England and just happened to be brilliant at climbing very tall trees. One day, when a wicked king tried to kidnap her, her talent came in useful. How did she and her friends escape, and what happened to the king and his soldiers who tried to take her? With stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Alan Marks, the legend of Saint Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford, is retold for young children as a tale of adventure, courage in the face of danger, friendship, and kindness, with a few surprises along the way.

When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival. Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl’s worst nightmare. But then Keelie starts seeing fairies and uncovers her connection to a community of elves.

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could--servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.

Twenty-nine tales from the folklore of Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and the Sudan.

Every person has seen a tree and maybe planted or climbed one! In all world religions, various trees are considered sacred. Trees have the ability to help us reach wholeness if we learn their wisdom and integrate it into our lives. This abecedarian--a book whose contents are in alphabetical order--explores the spiritual growth that is possible by reflecting on the wisdom of woody plants, which help humans experience the divine. In these pages you can explore trees from Acacia to Zaqqum. For each of the forty entries, the author presents a text identifying the tree, a reflective study, a question for journaling or personal meditation, and a concluding prayer. Some trees you may have heard about, and some may be new to you. The spiritual life is enhanced by the trees that surround and share the earth with us while also disclosing the divine to us.

Many things in the natural world are round - the moon, the sun, a nest, a bubble. And so are many delicious things to eat - a ball of ice-cream, a doughnut, a pie. And so too are more decorative objects such as a crown, a clock or a bauble on a Christmas tree. Through gentle verse this charming book, first published in the 1950s, explores a surprising range of items and sounds that come in round shapes. Striking and vibrant illustrations by Vladimir Bobri add humour and warmth to this joyful geometrical exploration for young children.

The story is about the Princess, who takes action to investigate the truth of the bedtime story Snowoods told by her grieving father, the King who is obsessed with finding this white magical forest full of treasures. After getting lost in the forest while searching for the hollow tree at the entrance to Snowoods, the Princess meets the White Owl, who once was a resident of Snowoods but was abandoned there because of his mistakes. The White Owl's mental, emotional, and physical health is in bad shape, and he is willing to tell the Princess everything about life in the magical forest and the reason for his punishment. The Princess and the White Owl become friends, and she helps him enter Snowoods. After a good plan, they finally get an invitation from the Snowmadame, a mystique creature who is protecting Snowoods with magic. The law of time exists in a different way in the magical forest. The Princess will spend two months there although it will take only two hours in her real world. The moment she walks into Snowoods, her whole life changes; the Snowmadame will tell her about the truth of her deceased mother. While spending there, the Princess will have very educational experiences. She will get lessons from the Snowmadame and the Snowman about Happiness, Truth, Synergy, Empathy, Success... She will make friends with the white animals, and manage a music project. In the meanwhile, the White Owl will be faced with his struggles of letting go his past. He has to construct a whole new self through hypnotherapy, breathing exercises and different healing methods, captured in an igloo full of mirrors. With the help of the Snowmadame's guideness his health will make positive progress. When the Princess returns to her castle, she has the knowledge how to cure her father's pain of her mothers grief.