Books with title The Wild Swan

This is a simple and beautiful, classic bedtime story.High above the clouds a swan flaps its wide, white wings. The air is still. The sun is bright in the blue sky. Below only clean, fluffy clouds.Alone, the swan flies majestically through the sky, the wind silently rushing through its brilliant white feathers. The swan sees a break in the clouds, and a glittering from beneath...Take a trip with the swan as her day unfolds, sharing the beauty of the world.

When a young lion at a city zoo escapes in an empty crate, he wakes up to find himself on the way to Africa. Now his animal friends—a strange menagerie including a giraffe, a koala, a squirrel, and a snake—must break out of the zoo, braving the concrete jungle of New York City to get him back. Young readers will love every fur-raising moment of this wild animal adventure that also features eight pages of full-color movie stills from the new CGI-animated Disney movie, The Wild!

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad—and he got it! Eventually. Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and—occasionally—a happy ending. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life. Or something like that. "The Wild Swans" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. Includes vintage illustration!