Джеймс Рэмси Ульман0.0 His father dies while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain--the Citadel--and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself. "Based upon the author's personal experiences, with details from the original ascent of the Matterhorn, the story has authenticity, atmosphere, and excitement.
Агнес Смит0.0 Beautiful, possibly allegorical story in which most of the characters are animals in the forest but other characters are a shepherd and his family, who live there at the edge of the forest
Peter D. Burchard0.0 Shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, Jed Smith, a Wisconsin Yankee, stands guard through the Mississippi night. It is then he meets a small southern boy and his dog. Warmed by the boy's helplessness and fear of the Northern soldiers, he befriends him and his family and protects them from the more bullying elements in his troop who ruthlessly raid Southern property. This time out of war does not shake his loyalty to the Northern cause, but makes him wish to serve well so that the nation may once more be reunited. A good story told with tenderness, this is an attractive fictional reflection on the war between the states.
Марсия Браун4.0 A hermit knows the magic to change a small mouse into a cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger -- and Marcia Brown's magical woodcuts bring this Indian fable to life with the mastery that won her her second Caldecott Medal.
Robert Louis Stevenson4.5 The 64 poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.
