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Baby Bear's Big Dreams by Jane Yolen
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Baby Bear knows that big bears get to have all the fun. They get to stay up late, live in toy stores, go exploring by themselves, and eat dessert . . . all day long! Baby Bear plans to do each of those things - and more - when he grows up. But at the end of the day, even the biggest bears still get to c ...Show more
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves and Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. Strong females smack of the unfeminine. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Sometimes that is a just designation, b ...Show more
Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories by Jane Yolen
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Readers are drawn into the fascinating world of dance with this beautifully illustrated anthology of tales from some of the world's most famous ballets, including "Swan Lake, The Nutcracker," and "Sleeping Beauty." Full color.
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Experientia Supplementum
The tale of Sleeping Beauty vividly and imaginatively re-told in one of the darkest moments in human history. A young American journalist is drawn to Europe and to the past as she investigates the mystery of her grandmother's life. From her grandmother she inherited a silver ring, a photograph, and t ...Show more
Briar Rose - A Novel of the Holocaust by Jane Yolen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Fairy Tales Ser.
In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army.Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories of Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, ...Show more
Briar Rose: A Novel of the Holocaust by Jane Yolen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
In the heat of midsummer 1942, deep in a forest in the heart of Poland, Briar Rose arrives at a castle that has fallen into the hands of an evil army.Ever since she was a child, Rebecca has been enchanted by her grandmother Gemma's stories of Briar Rose. Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, ...Show more
Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters by Jane Yolen
$16.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books
This is a new rhyming read-aloud from the beloved Jane Yolen about the snarfing, growling, hip-hopping way that monsters go to bed. Creep, gurgle, crawl, tumble!. Meet two young monsters who are far from scary - they're too busy having fun! They go to school, play outside with their friends and eat afte ...Show more
Dance Stories by Jane Yolen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Barefoot Books
Say it with dance! This gorgeous collection will enchant young dancers with stories from eight cultures, including the Polka in the Czech Republic, Limbo in the West Indies and the Waltz in Germany.
Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children
Splish-splosh, it's time for fun at the pond! Make friends with Dimity Duck and her poolside buddies in their first frithy-frothy picture book. 'Dimity Duck waddles, she toddles and she sings. Giggle-gaggle goes her tail and whoosh go her wings!' Waddle to the pond, with cute new character, Dimity Duck. ...Show more
Emily Writes - Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings by Jane Yolen; Christine Davenier (Illustrator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children
Jane Yolen's Emily Writes is an imagined and evocative picture book account of Emily Dickinson's childhood poetic beginnings, featuring illustrations by Christine Davenier. As a young girl, Emily Dickinson loved to scribble curlicues and circles, imagine new rhymes, and connect with the natural world a ...Show more
Fairy Tale Feasts : A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters by Jane Yolen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
A charming book the whole family will appreciate. It is not unusual that folk stories are often about food. Jacks milk cow traded for beans, Snow White given a poisoned apple, a pancake running away from those who would eat it, Hansel and Gretel lured by the gingerbread house and its candy windows and d ...Show more