Book Description
By night, a gang of cats steal out of their houses to enjoy their secret society of the Scaredy Cats, where they tell each other spoo-ooky tales. Ages 5-7.
Author : Shoo Rayner
Publisher : Orchard Books
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cats
ISBN : 9781843624448
By night, a gang of cats steal out of their houses to enjoy their secret society of the Scaredy Cats, where they tell each other spoo-ooky tales. Ages 5-7.
Author : Shoo Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781908944160
As the full moon calls, each cat slinks through the shadows to where the storyteller waits. Will you stay in your warm, cosy bed? Or dare you go and join the Scaredy Cats? Hear the tale of BlueBeard's Cat and her master's nasty, creepy secret! Another great story from Shoo Rayner. Perfect for newly confident readers, with black and white illustrations on every page.
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551994879
By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, '50s and '80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty that men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mudane lives and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them—the intimately personal, the fantastic and the shockingly real...whether it's what lies in a mysterious locked room or in the secret feelings we all conceal.
Author : Shoo Rayner
Publisher : Orchard
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781843623779
By night, a gang of cats steal out of their houses for their secret society of the Scaredy Cats where they tell each other spooky tales. Hear about Bluebeard's Cat - whose master has a grisly secret. Read about the lizard who feasts on felines but is scared off by The Killer Catflap. Told with humour, with plenty of shocks and scares along the way.
Author : Casie Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1604733535
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307567206
“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. Praise for Bluebeard “Vonnegut is at his edifying best.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents—satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.”—The Cincinnati Post “[Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It has the qualities of classic Bosch and Slaughterhouse Vonnegut. . . . Bluebeard is uncommonly feisty.”—USA Today “Is Bluebeard good? Yes! . . . This is vintage Vonnegut—good wine from his best grapes.”—The Detroit News “A joyride . . . Vonnegut is more fascinated and puzzled than angered by the human stupidities and contradictions he discerns so keenly. So hop in his rumble seat. As you whiz along, what you observe may provide some new perspectives.”—Kansas City Star
Author : Jane Nickerson
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307976068
The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi. Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it’s as if, thread by thread, a silken net is tightening around her. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives—all with hair as red as her own—in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world. Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut—a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.
Author : Casie E. Hermansson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1628467622
Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like “Mr. Fox,” native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater. Chronicling the story's permutations, the book presents examples of English true-crime figures, male and female, called Bluebeards, from King Henry VIII to present-day examples. Bluebeard explores rare chapbooks and their illustrations and the English transformation of Bluebeard into a scimitar-wielding Turkish tyrant in a massively influential melodramatic spectacle in 1798. Following the killer's trail over the years, Casie E. Hermansson looks at the impact of nineteenth-century translations into English of the German fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the particularly English story of how Bluebeard came to be known as a pirate. This book will provide readers and scholars an invaluable and thorough grasp on the many strands of this tale over centuries of telling.
Author : Helen M. Winslow
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This charming book explores everything cat-related, from the author's own beloved pets to historic and high-bred cats, cat clubs, cat shows, cat art, and even cat language. Discover the origin of cats and the different breeds that exist, and read heartwarming stories of cats that have touched the author's life. Whether you're a cat lover or just curious about these fascinating creatures, this book is sure to delight and entertain.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN :