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A collection of stories from a bright new author whose work is reminiscent of William Faulkner's delves into both the wide disparity and close oneness found between people in human nature. 10,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Footprints along the Yellowstone, old Monatna history and old pictures of early pioneers and more. This is a Nayor Company book. ... Read more

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This is the most comprehensive dictionary available on comic art. The catalog provides detailed information about more than 60,000 cataloged books, magazines, scrapbooks, fanzines, comic books, and other materials in the Michigan State University Libraries, America's premiere library comics collection. Each book or serial is listed by title, with entries as appropriate under author, subject, and series. Besides the traditional books and magazines, significant collections of microfilm, sound recordings, vertical files, and realia (mainly T-shirts) are included. Comics and related materials are grouped by nationality and by genre. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (23)

the animal family review
I first read this book when I was in the third grade, and could not find it in the public library, but was so excited to have found it here; it's just as I remembered it. Love this book!

Reads like a poem
My daughter's third grade teacher read this book aloud, and my daughter asked permission to bring it home to read to me - the first time she has ever done that.The kid has taste.This quickly became one of my all-time favorite children's books, although I hesitate to put it into such a narrow category.It's a beautiful, simply told story that gets me every time.My son just turned 13, and every birthday we tell stories about what life was like when the kids were born.I find myself going back to this story - "we had you always."

sweet magic
This book has been a favorite in my family for generations. It is short (you can read it in an afternoon easily ) and the writing is simple and straigtforward but also sweet and magical.The author's introductory note captures my heart:"say what you like, but such things do happen.Not often, but they do happen".

A timeless message .. of the times
Randall Jarrell (1914-65) is better known as a poet, although probably best known today for his poetry criticism. He also wrote a few children's book, most notably The Bat-Poet and The Animal Family, the later published the same year he died and winning the 1966 Newbery Honor. It is wonderfully illustrated by Maurice Sendak - of Where the Wild Things Are fame - in beautiful pen and ink drawings.

The story is a sort of fable along the lines of Hans Christian Andersen or Lewis Carroll, but updated with a 1960s message. It is about a lonely hunter who lives in a cabin by the sea who with time comes to gather around him a "family" of very different creatures, first a mermaid, and then a bear, lynx, and human boy. Each is an orphan whose parents have either died or somehow left the scene. They all are very different animals yet find comfort and eventually identity with one another. It is a story in the spirit of the Age of Aquarius, when songs such as Free to Be You and Me and Free to Be a Family resonated during a cultural revolution in which boundaries of class, race and, in this case, even species were being explored, when everyone was a "brother" and "sister".

My reading of the story in its 1960s context is only one interpretation, this is not a heavy handed preachy book by any measure, it is timeless in its message about toleration of differences, the power of love to overcome anything (including for a mermaid to live on land, in effect brining a happy ending to Hans Andersen's otherwise brutal The Little Mermaid), and in particular for those who seek out love and find it in the most un-expected places. It is a short book, easy to read, and poetically written. Over the past 40 years it has found a place close to the heart of many children and adults, I only wish I had discovered it sooner.

Perfection
This is a beautiful, timeless story, told in gorgeous prose, and charmingly decorated. I'm not the sort of person who gushes over books, but this one is true literary perfection, and not just for children. It's the kind of book that, no matter how old you are when you first read it, will stay with you for the rest of your life. ... Read more

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Twenty-seven newly translated fairy tales from Grimm including many old favorites as well as such lesser-known tales as "The Juniper Tree," "Many-Fur," and "Brother Gaily." ... Read more

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decent
I havethe complete collection of the grimms fairytales but this book has a relatively decent collection. I would still suggest the full collection.

Who can top Sendak for fairy tale power?
If I had any one visual image deep in my brain when I began to write Take Me With You When You Go, it was Sendak's illustration in this collection of Hansel and Gretel lost in the woods, which I'd read and seen many years before.No one has illustrated fairy tales more richly than Sendak, and the collection he chose to combine is good, and Lore Segal's telling is fine.This is one of the best entry points for children into real fairy tales, as opposed to Disney.My own book attempts to bridge beyond Grimm and the older fairy tale tradition, but at the heart there's still the closely bonded Brother and Sister growing strong together on their own....Good grief!I just noticed that another one of the stories in the collection is actually titled "Brother and Sister."I'd totally forgotten.

Morose and melencholy
You won't find any pixy dust in this adaptation of German fairy tales. Delving into the strange and bizarre, these stories aren't the kind you want to be reading your 4 year old before they go to bed at night.Simplistic in writing, engaging in content, entertaining in substance, these are great short stories for someone who enjoys the abnormal, the peculiar, and the extraordinary.

Lost in translation no longer
After hearing Sendak speak of the tragic fate that has befallen the fairy tale, I immediately went online in search of the Juniper Tree collection, a seventies-era translation of Grimm's fairy tales that professed to be true to the originals.

According to Sendak, modern adaptations of fairy tales lack the vigor and violence of the originals, which themselves were adaptation of the spoken-word.Call it Disney-fication, but new translations seemed to candy-coat old tales into generic rubbish.Sendak said that he took on this commission in order to rejuvenate the fairy-tale genre. And I can only find success in the venture.The new translation adds spice to fairy tales that I have heard countless times, in addition to adding many more obscure fairy tales to a reader's collection. And Sendak's beautiful black and white illustrations certainly don't hurt the package.His characteristic drawings add life and excitement to the written word.

Definitely get this copy instead of any cheesy new version of a fairy tale.It's not as violent/different from normal fairy tale editions as I expected, but the change is significant enought to have warranted this translation.And sure, there isn't a Sendak illustration on every page, but kids need something to look forward to in a book, don't they?

Beloved Childhood Book
As a child I found this book at a garage sale.It instantly became one of my most treasured books - that was over 20 years ago.It has some of the most interesting Fairy Tales, many have a slightly "different twist" than your typical tales (some outright silly while others dark and bit disturbing).Most of the stories are 3 to 5 pages long and are very quick reading, and the sketched illustrations are beautifully detailed.Excellent stories for children and adults alike.With my current copy falling apart - I was happy to see the book has been re-issued! ... Read more