Books with author Carol Roth

A fabulously entertaining work with over 100 delightful illustrations--Library Journal calls Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins its "favorite work of 1996." In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various and, at the same time, strikingly similar from country to country. Wherever humans have lived, the supernatural beings have dwelt alongside us. People serve to explain the unexplainable--the strange disappearance of a traveler in a dark wood, that odd thumping in the attic, the fresh cream turned sour overnight. Often they reveal the stoic humor with which human societies have faced their difficulties. But whatever their source, our guilts, fears, dreams, or imaginations, the spirits have fascinated and enchanted us through the millennia. Chosen by Library Journal as a Best Reference Source.

CO-QUI'! CO-QUI'! "Thats me! That's me!" is a humorous tale about the accidental delivery of a Puerto Rican tree frog in a bunch of flowers and the boy, John, who captures him. Children will search for Co-qui in each brightly colored illustration, and laugh when he makes a startling appearance at a tea party! When John tries to keep Co-qui, he soon discovers that this tiny frog does not make a very good pet!