Best Selling Books by Jane Ray

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, an internationally renowned picture-book artist, retells and stunningly illustrates a rich variety of tales from around the world. Some, like Oscar Wilde''s "The Happy Prince," are beloved; others, like the charming African myth "Mulungu Paints the Birds," will become new favorites. The writers include the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Edward Lear. Jane''s writing style simply glides along, revealing tales of wonder, magic, and mystery.

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.

A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.

Collins Big Cat readers and workbooks help children to learn how to read in English - accurately, fluently and with enjoyment. Contains the following Readers and Workbooks:� Carry Me (lilac)� Little Red Riding Hood (lilac)� Oh Dear Me, I''m Late for Tea (lilac)� Stop That Robot (lilac)� The pied piper of Hamelin (lilac)� In the Garden (pink A)

A prose retelling, incorporating lines from the play, of the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona.

A stunning collection of three best-loved stories from the Bible.

After his small stone is eaten by a hen, the bold boy tries to exact justice by taking from their owners a series of increasingly larger animals.

"Who will get rid of the rats?" A book without words - in which the old German folktale is told in illustrations. Includes ideas for guided reading at back of book.

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Biblical text and illustrations depict how Noah and his family were singled out by God to be saved from the great flood, along with two animals of each kind.