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Translated by F. S. Copeland. Illustrated by Vladimir Kirin. Croatian Tales of Long Ago is a collection of six short stories, based on the author's extensive knowledge of ancient Slavic mythology of Croatia. Mixing fairy stories with events, motifs, and legends dating back nearly a millennium, this work was one of the author's most famous writings, and although aimed at younger readers, can easily be enjoyed by adults as well. Croatian mythology is part of the Slavic tradition, which offers readers a fascinating insight into the folklore oral traditions of deeds of valor, family relationships, local tribal conflicts, and the inevitable battle with a dragon. The stories are gripping; the characters clearly defined; there is good and evil-and good always wins. This is a classic work which is essential for anyone wishing to experience a neglected, but important part of European cultural history. Contents How Quest Sought the Truth Fisherman Plunk and His Wife Reygoch Bridesman Sun and Bride Bridekins Stribor's Forest Little Brother Primrose and Sister Lavender Notes About the author: Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić (1874-1938) was one of Croatia's most famous children's writers. After being nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, she was inducted in the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1937.

This book of mine, "What is Art?" appears now for the first time in its true form. More than one edition has already been issued in Russia, but in each case it has been so mutilated by the "Censor," that I request all who are interested in my views on art only to judge of them by the work in its present shape. The causes which led to the publication of the book-with my name attached to it-in a mutilated form were the following: In accordance with a decision I arrived at long ago,-not to submit my writings to the "Censorship" (which I consider to be an immoral and irrational institution), but to print them only in the shape in which they were written,-I intended not to attempt to print this work in Russia. However, my good acquaintance, Professor Grote, editor of a Moscow psychological magazine, having heard of the contents of my work, asked me to print it in his magazine, and promised me that he would get the book through the "Censor's" office unmutilated if I would but agree to a few very unimportant alterations, merely toning down certain expressions. I was weak enough to agree to this, and it has resulted in a book appearing under my name, from which not only have some essential thoughts been excluded, but into which the thoughts of other men-even thoughts utterly opposed to my own convictions-have been introduced.

Read by presidents, scientists, and national heroes, the Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths. Filled with practical advice for everyone, the book contains everything from safety tips on swimming and instructions for putting up a tent to directions for making an aquarium and pointers on how to identify common North American trees. More than 200 figures and illustrations accompany valuable information on woodcrafting, camping, sailing, hiking, health and endurance, and providing first aid. But more than just a guide to outdoor life, the handbook also offers timeless observations on politeness, patriotism, and good citizenship. As useful and valid today as it was when first published nearly 100 years ago, the Boy Scouts Handbook will delight Americana enthusiasts as much as it will be treasured by collectors and nature lovers.

In the year 2037, two sisters are forced to survive by stealing water, looking to escape to the countries in the North, where life is better. But one night, as the sisters infiltrate a house to steal its stash of freshwater, they find themselves involved in an unplanned adventure into the past, fighting to stop the pollution that ultimately caused their parents' deaths.Water Thieves is the first middle-grade novel written by V. L. Perillo. This book was written as part of an outreach program for the project "Sensing the Americas' Freshwater Ecosystem Risk from Climate Change" (SAFER), funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). All sales of this book will go back into the project and be used to keep funding outreach activities of the SAFER project as well as to buy more books to distribute to schools and libraries.

Translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs and illustrated by Cecile Walton. This beautifully-illustrated edition of A. J. Glinksi's classic tales provides a marvelous glimpse into the world of Polish legend and folklore-and reveals its closeness and affinity to the greater European family of nations. Glinksi, Poland's master folklore writer, and his nation's equivalent of the Brothers Grimm, spent many years in the mid-nineteenth century travelling all over his nation's lands, listening to and writing down the stories as told to him by the ordinary folk. In this manner, he captured Polish folklore as it truly was-the way that the peasants would tell their children as part of a wide-ranging oral tradition. Bound up in history, legend, moral virtues, and ancient European culture, these classic stories were introduced to the English-speaking world early in the twentieth century. They were an instant hit, with tales such as the Frog Princess, Princess Miranda and Prince Hero, and many others quickly winning their place in the great classic tales of European literature.

Want to know a little more about your kiddos AND have a record of their thoughts, wishes and favourite things? Fill out a page in this book once every 365 days and marvel at how your child grows and changes. Remember when your three-year-old wanted to be a unicorn when she grows up? Or when your son's favourite memory was simply building the deck with Dad? This book will help you hang on to a little bit of their personality at every age, while you create a keepsake you'll both love to look back on. Features: A professional, beautiful softcover design. Two-page spreads for each year from ages 1 to 18. Ages 1 and 2 allow parents to record their child's favourite things, and include space for a picture and a handprint. Ages 3 to 18 include space for a photo or self-portrait and signature, so that you can see your child's drawings and writing develop over the years. Birthday wishes and love to you all, and happy interviewing!

In this poetic tale a family finds solace, strength and resilience in one another after their little prince leaves on an important mission for the Universe. Enchantingly written and illustrated, Trees for Alexandre narrates the journey towards acceptance and the return to happiness after the loss of a loved one. It is a story about healing, understanding and having faith in the Universe´s plan for us. It will fill you with love and hope and leave you with peace in your heart.

A holiday book open to anyone, Every Little Snowflake is not like other night-before-Christmas stories. Precocious young Oliver has questions for his mom: How many presents will he get? Who is St. Nicholas? Will there be Santa Gifts on Mars? And Mom has some honest answers: about Magical Santa and the real St. Nick, but, most importantly, about kindness and joy.

In just a few minutes each year, create a beautiful keepsake of your child's thoughts, wishes and favorite things from ages 1 to 18. Modern, gender neutral and simple to complete. Ages one and two have a series of questions for parents to fill out about their child. From ages 3 to 18, you will ask the child the same questions each year and record their answers in the book. Each age includes a 2-page spread with space for a photo, a handprint for ages one and two, and the child's signature for ages 3 to 18.

Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her gaze desired to wander in the direction of the half-dozen children playing on the lawn. It was a noble situation-noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. Seaward, glimpsed through a fringe of hundred-foot coconut palms, was the ocean; beyond the reef a dark blue that grew indigo blue to the horizon, within the reef all the silken gamut of jade and emerald and tourmaline.