New Releases by Lise Lunge-Larsen

A collection of seven Norwegian folktales from various historical and international sources, all featuring trolls and showing how even small children can trick them. Includes an introduction explaining what trolls are and how they came to be. Full color. 11 x 8 1/2.

Gigantesques, grotesques et dotés d'une force surhumaine : voici les trolls. Figures mythiques du folklore nordique, ces géants donnent du fil à retordre à ceux qui ont le malheur de se mettre en travers de leur route. Créatures aux diverses apparences, les trolls sont traîtres et fourbes. L'ingéniosité et le courage sont les qualités essentielles pour déjouer leur malice. Face à eux, les héros de ces contes sauront-ils être suffisamment rusés ?

Ancient names come to rich and fascinating life in this lavishly illustrated gift book for mythology fans and word lovers.Did you know that “museums” were initially temples built to worship the nine muses, the goddesses of the arts? That “Janus” was the god of the doorways and hallways, and we have named our janitors after him? Where did these words — and other words, such as chaos, genius, nemesis, panic, echo, and narcissus — come from? From the ancient stories of the Greeks — stories that rang so true and wise that the names of the characters have survived for centuries as words we use every day. The brief stories here not only impart the subtle wisdom of these ancient tales, but make us understand the words, and our own world, more deeply.

A collection of Norwegian folktales all featuring trolls, retold by Lise Lunge-Larsen: The Three Billy Goats Gruff; The Boy Who Became a Lion, a Falcon, and an Ant; Butterball; The Handshake; The Boy and the North Wind; The White Cat in the Dovre Mountain; The Sailors and the Troll; The Eating Competition; and The Troll with No Heart in His Body. The stories are enhanced by beautiful full-color woodcut illustrations by Betsy Bowen. Includes a section on Sources, and a Bibliography. New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing; Horn Book Fanfare; Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People; ALA Notable Book.

Tells how the infant Prince Hakon is rescued by men fiercely loyal to his dead father, who ski across the rugged mountains in blizzard conditions to save him from his enemies, the Baglers.

During the long, arduous voyage of the ark, Noah discovers that the sheep's wool has become matted into a strange material, for which he finds a practical use once the ark has come to rest atop a mountain.

Selkies, fairies, gnomes, hill folk, river sprites--do you believe in them? Perhaps among the flowers, beside a mountain, or near deep waters you’ve caught a glimpse, once or twice, of what you thought might be the silvery shadow of a dwarf, or a hint of a fairy’s wing, or the tail of the water horse. Or was it just the odd light of dusk or dawn playing tricks? As Lise Lunge-Larsen’s magical, timeless stories reveal and Beth Krommes’s enchanting scratchboard illustrations capture, the hidden folk are there, all right: you just have to know where--and how--to look.

As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore's most fascinating and varied creatures. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. They can carry their heads under their arms or hide their hearts inside wells. They can walk across oceans and fly over mountains. Trees and shrubs may grow from their heads, and their noses can be long enough to stir soup. There are troll hags, troll daughters, and elderly, shrunken trolls. Old or young, they are quarrelsome, ugly, and boastful, and they love to trick princesses and children. To defeat them, children must rely on the strengths of their humanity-persistence, kindness, pluck, and willingness to heed good advice

In this retelling of an Ojibwe tale, a girl's act of bravery to save her family leads to the appearance in the world of the delicate and tender flower called the lady's slipper.