Best Selling Books by Jane Ray

Have you ever seen a mermaid? Eliza has! And this is the story of how she and a mermaid become inseperable friends.

With this extraordinary collection of stories--each featuring a bird as a central character--Jane Ray has crafted a special gift for children who love to read and be read to. Ray retells and stunningly illustrates a rich variety of tales from around the world, from Oscar Wilde''s beloved "The Happy Prince" to the charming African myth "Mulungu Paints the Birds." Jane''s writing style simply glides along, revealing tales of wonder, magic and mystery.

Jane Ray''s family classic "The Story of Christmas updated to include a fold-out creche. In addition to its ravishing, gold-highlighted paintings, a pop-up creche filled with the characters from the biblical story has been added. In this reinvented version of her book "The Story of Christmas, author and illustrator Jane Ray has lovingly brought to life the busy streets of Bethlehem, the journey of the Three Kings across desert and sea, the triumphant angels and the humble shepherds.

Jasmine''s garden has the most delicious fruit in the village--but someone is eating all her beautiful apples and apricots, kiwis and kumquats, papayas and peaches. Determined to discover the thief''s identity, Jasmine waits ... and waits. Little does she imagine that when he arrives, he''ll lead her on a magical journey through the skies.

The sea is full of mystery and enchantment--and this extraordinary second volume in The Story Collector series captures every drop of its magic. Retold and illustrated by the renowned picture-book artist Jane Ray, The Little Mermaid and Other Fishy Tales features an international selection of captivating stories and poems: "The Fisherman and His Wife," "Whalesong," "Lobster Quadrille," "The Ballad of John Silver," and many more.

Con ilustraciones maravillosas y prosa directa, esta coleccion de12 de los cuentos mas queridos encantaran y cautivaran a los ninos. Incluye relatos de Cenicienta, La bella durmiente, La bella y la bestia, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Blancanieves, Hansel y Gretel, y mas.

Esta antologia revela el poder del amor en 12 cuentos clasicos, incluyendo Tristan e Isolda, Antonio y Cleopatra, La Espada de Solomon, y Romeo y Julieta. Los temas universales del amor eterno, amor perdido, amor de una madre, y el amor entre amigos son explorados por estos clasicos.

Poetry about contemporary spiritual life, written in non-churchy and non-ironic language. Serious, humorous, often startling meditations engage the spiritual searching of both believers and non-believers. These poems are full of ideas but not academic, full of feeling but not sentimental. They can be unsettling for know-it-alls, challenging for skeptics, helpful for catechists, inspirational for preachers, and provide thoughtful support for prayer. The author is a Catholic of the Vatican II persuasion, a Boomer from the California coast, and has come to believe what she was once told by a Franciscan teacher: that there are no Christians in Heaven, because in heaven our human desperation for rigid identity systems dissolves in Love. Dedicated to all people who have come to feel that something is missing. This second edition has a foreword and author biography by Janet Nippell.

Lyrical, eerie, haunted, sing-song, blunt, intellectually demanding and often funny, some of these poems rhyme, some don''t. Covering California territory from the Los Angeles basin to the Point Reyes peninsula, and using characters adapted from Malaysian creation stories, themes of Buddhist meditation practice, and quirky contemplations of Catholic Sister Fishwick, the pilgrim voice heard in The Knot Garden ponders the question: What is the shape of the world? Not simply the planet itself, but the spiritual story we tell to understand our place in it. Without a story, a spiritual world-view, it is difficult to know how to choose rightly our actions in life. When it seems the coherence of our world view may be overwhelmed by spiritual chaos and ecological destruction brought about in part by the fragmentation of modernity, these poems affirm that recombinant, re-weaviing, re-gathering powers of creative nature can lead us through its disintegration on a path open to faith. This second edition contains an afterword by Janet Nippell.

Come sono nate le stagioni, il cacciatore e il cigno, il santo e il corvo, il racconto del leone, ... queste e altre storie sugli animali, il rispetto della natura e la relazione con l''uomo.

Terre, feu, eau, air... Entrez dans la ronde des éléments et découvrez, au travers de mythes, histoires et légendes du monde entier, combien ils peuvent être magiques et mystérieux. Un livre enchanteur, à mi-chemin entre réalité et imaginaire, qui nous rappelle aussi que les éléments sont précieux, indispensables à notre vie sur terre.

Des contes et légendes du monde entier relatifs à la Lune, au Soleil et aux étoiles.

Une jolie princesse avec une peau blanche comme la neige, des lèvres rouges comme le sang et des cheveux noirs comme l''ébène... sans oublier la vilaine reine dont la jalousie n''a d''égal que sa grande cruauté! La légendaire histoire de Blanche-Neige racontée à travers six illustrations en trois dimensions pour rejouer à l''infini comme dans un petit théâtre au décor raffiné ce merveilleux conte de fées!

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