Liebevoll bebildert von Illustratoren aus aller Welt verdeutlichen und unterstreichen die klassischen Texte der Brüder Grimm im neuen visuellen Gewand, wie etwa Hänsel und Gretel, Aschenputtel und Rumpelstilzchen, aber auch weniger bekannte wie Jorinde und Joringel oder Gevatter Tod, die Aktualität und zeitlose Schönheit der klassischen deutschen Märchen.

Eine Sammlung internationaler Volksmärchen, ausgewählt aus Einzelbänden der Europäischen Märchengesellschaft ("Traumhaus und Wolkenschloss", "Märchen, an denen mein Herz hängt", "Diebe, Dummlinge, Faulpelze & Co."). Mit einem ausführlichen Vorwort des bekannten Neurobiologen Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther zur Wichtigkeit von Märchen für die Entwicklung bei Kindern: Märchen erzählt oder vorgelesen zu bekommen fördert die Aufmerksamkeit, Fantasie und den Sprachschatz, sie stärken Mut und Vertrauen und befähigen zu Verständnis und Mitgefühl.
Die Märchen dieser Sammlung sind overseas, es sind Volksmärchen ganz unterschiedlicher Kulturen, sie führen den Leser von Deutschland über (fast) alle Länder Europas bis nach Indien, China, Südamerika, Sibirien usw.

the traditional and acclaimed land of Ethryn is demise from pervasive drought, and whereas the king searches to discover water, a potent tower is exposed within the wilderness. King Kael hopes the scroll came across close to the altar will inform of water assets, but if he touches the gemstone set within the altar, he falls right into a coma that transports him again 5 thousand years the place he's a slave development the tower.

Sha’kath, the wizard who oversaw the development of the tower all these centuries in the past, had solid a spell that brings sand effervescent up from the floor so the employees could make bricks and whole the tower’s construction.

In the earlier, the king, whose is a tender villager named Lael, is pursued relentlessly through God, given visions and declarations that he has been selected to be a deliverer and a prophet , yet Lael retains fleeing. Then, whilst the tower is finished, heaven appoints him as deliverer, and he and his partners break out and head to their villages. God directs Lael to the sacred website and makes him the Keeper, then finds his nice energy as he brings down judgment upon the area, complicated languages and scattering all in uprising and defiance. Lael is proven the beginnings of Ethryn—a fertile and wealthy land that might turn into an exceptional kingdom—and then he returns domestic to his kin, the place he totally embraces his future and offers those that will hear. God then destroys his village with hearth, yet Lael leads his contingent to the sacred website and a brand new beginning.

At the top of his existence, Lael—who has watched Ethryn develop and prosper and who has been a proficient healer—returns to the tower to put his poem within the chest and placed the gemstone at the altar. ahead of he is taking his final breath, he turns and sees a girl—who is Ra’daf of the future—and whilst he dies, King Kael sooner or later wakes from his lengthy sleep. Upon awakening he unearths Ra’daf approximately lifeless via his bed—for the vizier had attempted to forestall her from waking the king with the amaranth within the vase. Lael heals her, and the vizier flees, not able to find his mystery chamber, yet cause on getting to know the destinations of all seven websites and destroying all of them. Kael, upon reviving, now understands the place the positioning is buried less than sand and takes his humans there, the place he back is decided up as Keeper, and now, with heaven’s blessing, water erupts from the floor and ends the drought.

the story of Aypi follows the destiny of a bunch of Turkmen fishermen residing at the coast of the Caspian Sea. the phobia of wasting their ancestral domestic looms over the complete village. This injustice is being made to seem like a voluntary initiative at the a part of the fishermen themselves, when the ruling powers cynically try and confiscate their land. One courageous fisherman from the village rises as much as confront them and fights for his local shore, as a reaction to an act of cruelty inflicted on a defenceless younger lady centuries in the past. This unjustly carried out soul returns as a ghost in this afflicted time to specific a negative revenge at the males of the village.

The relationships one of the characters replicate the everlasting competition among the forces of nature, with the intervention of mystical forces ratcheting up the strain. This name has been realised via a workforce of the next committed pros:
Translated via W.M. Coulson,
Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher),
Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director),
Ksenia Papazova - coping with Editor.

Dans ce recueil de contes, vous découvrirez l. a. richesse du patrimoine oral de l. a. tradition fon du Bénin. Il existait un étrange forgeron. Quand un villageois avait quelque selected à forger, il lui apportait les matériaux sans préciser ce qu'il voulait lui faire forger. Le forgeron avait le don de deviner ce qu'il fallait fabriquer. Sa réputation était arrivée jusqu'aux oreilles du roi qui, sceptique, voulut le mettre à l'épreuve.

each evening for 3 years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a special virgin, executing her subsequent morning. to finish this brutal trend and to save lots of her personal lifestyles, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, starts off to inform the king stories of event, love, riches and beauty - stories of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of demise and magical spirits, stories of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of 40 thieves and of jinnis trapped in jewelry and in lamps. The series of news will final 1,001 nights.

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according to the Brothers Grimm fairy story of an identical identify, The Juniper Tree is a haunting and fantastically written myth through the acclaimed writer of The Vet’s Daughter.In their idyllic backyard, Gertrude and Bernard forge an ideal triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mom of an illegitimate baby. Then Gertrude conceives the kid which has lengthy eluded her, and the spell breaks into foreboding, risk and insanity. easily informed but completely compelling, The Juniper Tree is a multifaceted jewel of a story, exquisitely written, by means of a real original.

Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, Garance est nommé maître d’école dans un petit village de l. a. Haute-Loire. Il a pour élève Antoine, arrivé de Paris avec sa mère, Éva Mess, une célèbre créatrice de mode. Éva est venue se reposer à los angeles campagne après los angeles mort de son frère, tué dans un twist of fate d’automobile dont elle se despatched responsable.
La santé mentale d’Éva suscite l’inquiétude. On los angeles dit en proie à des visions, à des accès de délire. Garance, qui est tombé sous son charme, n’observe rien d’alarmant dans son comportement. Jusqu’au jour où elle lui confie que son frère décédé vient lui rendre visite…
L’instituteur est placé devant un poor cas de judgment of right and wrong : au risque de pousser Éva plus loin dans le désespoir, ne devrait-il pas demander à ce qu’on lui retire l. a. garde de son garçon ? Il ne sait pas encore dans quel effroyable piège Éva est tombée…