Once Upon A Time

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191028762

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Once Upon a Time by Marina Warner Pdf

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. Marina Warner has loved fairy tales over a long writing life, and she explores here a multitude of tales through the ages, their different manifestations on the page, the stage, and the screen. From the phenomenal rise of Victorian and Edwardian literature to contemporary children's stories, Warner unfolds a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White and gothic interpretations such as Pan's Labyrinth. In ten succinct chapters, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Her book makes a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture.

Author : Odette Beane
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401305499

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Reawakened by Odette Beane Pdf

Strangers don't come to Storybrooke. The town's residents are victims of a curse--trapped by an Evil Queen in a world without magic, they don't remember that they were once Snow White, Prince Charming, Jiminy Cricket, and other characters from a fairytale world. The curse keeps them in Storybrooke, and keeps everyone else out...until a dark stranger with a typewriter arrives on a motorcycle. August, the mysterious newcomer, claims to be in Storybrooke because, as a writer, the town inspires him. As the other characters discover, though, he knows more about fairytales than he lets on. With one foot in the nonmagical world, one foot in fairytale land, and both hands on a typewriter, August is the perfect narrator to tell fans the story of ONCE UPON A TIME's first season and ready them for a surprise in the next.

Author : Frank L. Baum,L. Frank Baum
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781616402839

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum,L. Frank Baum Pdf

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been enchanting audiences since it was first published in 1900. While many fans may know the work only by its movie counterpart, the world L. Frank Baum built within the books is much more elaborate. Since the more recent publication of Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the Broadway play of the same name, fans have had a rekindled interest in Baum's original works from which the retellings draw heavily. Anyone interested in fantasy, magic, and silliness is sure to love this American classic.L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) is one of the most recognized and beloved children's authors, though he is often recognized for only one of his many stories. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is easily his most popular work, though Baum actually wrote 13 sequels in Oz. His writings consist of practically every genre: Baum wrote 55 novels in total, 82 short stories, more than 200 poems, as well as scripts, and other miscellaneous writings. Interestingly, many of his non-Oz works were published under pseudonyms. Baum made many attempts to bring his work to stage and screen, but the most successful productions were not made until after his death.

Author : Barbara G. Hennessy
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Aladdin
ISBN : 0763625213

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The Once Upon a Time Map Book by Barbara G. Hennessy Pdf

Visit six imaginary lands, follow maps and directions, and find hidden treasures.

Author : Elizabeth Berg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588368935

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Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg Pdf

BONUS: This edition contains a Once Upon a Time, There Was You discussion guide. Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they seem to have nothing in common—nothing except the most important person in each of their lives: Sadie, their spirited eighteen-year-old daughter. Feeling smothered by Irene and distanced from John, Sadie is growing more and more attached to her new boyfriend, Ron. When tragedy strikes, Irene and John come together to support the daughter they love so dearly. What takes longer is to remember how they really feel about each other. Elizabeth Berg’s immense talent shines in this unforgettable novel about the power of love, the unshakeable bonds of family, and the beauty of second chances.

Author : Wendy Toliver
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368002004

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Once Upon A Time: Regina Rising by Wendy Toliver Pdf

Sixteen-year-old Regina is very different from the Regina known by fans of ABC's "Once Upon a Time." She seeks romance, adventure, and approval. Of course, getting approval from a mother like Cora is next to impossible. For Regina, friendships have always been a rare commodity. Could it be that Regina has finally found a true friend? Or is it too good to be true? As Regina struggles to find her own identity and create her own destiny, she discovers that her fate might just be to become everything she despises.

Author : Michelle Zink
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368027786

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Henry and Violet by Michelle Zink Pdf

Henry and Violet finally have a chance to be alone. Granted, it's on a school field trip, but with some clever planning and strategic maneuvering, they can orchestrate their own adventure in New York City, a fairytale land in its own right. While they search for a treasured item that once belonged to Violet's father, they are met with obstacles they could never have predicted. What they thought would be a romantic getaway ends up being a true test of their relationship. The question remains: Are they destined for a happily ever after?

Author : Kalinda Vazquez,Corinna Bechko
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302479985

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Once Upon A Time by Kalinda Vazquez,Corinna Bechko Pdf

Author : Nick Sharratt
Publisher : Walker
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Plot-your-own stories
ISBN : 1406331929

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Once Upon a Time by Nick Sharratt Pdf

In this choose-your-own adventure novelty book, each double spread has six different cutouts to choose from, so that children can create their own story over and over again.

Author : Vivian French
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Big books
ISBN : 1564028062

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Once Upon a Time by Vivian French Pdf

A bored boy's world is suddenly populated by three house-building pigs, a girl wearing a red hood, and other familiar nursery characters.

Author : Geoffrey Kloske
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689866194

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Once Upon a Time, the End (Asleep in 60 Seconds) by Geoffrey Kloske Pdf

Once upon a time there was a grown-up looking for a book with very short bedtime stories for a kid who wouldn't go to sleep. So the grown-up picked up this book and read this flap and took the book home and read it out loud and they both laughed and fell fast asleep fast. Just like you. The end.

Author : Quentin Tarantino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063112537

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino Pdf

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film. RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH—Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have got away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE—She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON—The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

Author : Wendy Toliver
Publisher : Kingswell Teen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1368026095

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Once Upon a Time Red's Untold Tale by Wendy Toliver Pdf

Red has a constant internal battle between her wild side and her strict, overprotective upbringing, and the issue of "control" as she discovers she has a hot temper when the "mean girls" push her too far. ("When we learn to control it, we needn't fear it," Rumpelstiltskin says in the series.) She has flashbacks to her 13th year when she received her cloak and the nickname "Red." Plagued by nightmares she doesn't understand and a temper she can't control, Red struggles to save Granny's troubled business and to nurture her budding romance with Peter, even as the betrayal of her classmates awakens the wolf within.

Author : James Riley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416995944

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Half Upon a Time by James Riley Pdf

In the village of Giant's Hand Jack's grandfather has been pushing him to find a princess and get married, so when a young lady falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says "Punk Princess," and she tells Jack that her grandmother, who looks suspiciously like the long-missing Snow White, has been kidnapped, Jack decides to help her.

Author : James Riley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534425880

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Once Upon Another Time by James Riley Pdf

Lena has a problem: she is a twelve-year-old giant child, but she is still only the size of a human: rejected by the giant king, she and her enormous talking cat, Rufus, go down to the human world seeking some magic that will restore her to her rightful status; Jin is a twelve-year-old genie, not yet allowed his full powers, and at the moment tied, for two more wishes, to the Golden King, an annoying, nasty tyrant who has sent him on a quest--and when these two children meet all the kingdoms may be changed forever.