Books with title A First Book of Myths

These enchanting books introduce children to four perennially popular subjects: animals, letters, numbers and toys. Each book features thirty engaging games with activities involving colouring, recognition, classification, counting, searching and more, as well as one double spread of stickers. This beautifully designed collection will both educate and entertain all children of three and over.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

These enchanting books introduce children to four perennially popular subjects: animals, letters, numbers and toys. Each book features thirty engaging games with activities involving colouring, recognition, classification, counting, searching and more, as well as one double spread of stickers. This beautifully designed collection will both educate and entertain all children of three and over. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo).

This title is part of the "My First Picture Book" series: perfect for every toddler to help build language, understanding and enjoyment. "My Book of First Words" is the perfect companion for children just learning to spot and name, or learning to recognise words. Bright illustrations bring to life all the key objects and favourite things from a child's world. This is one of two 24pp paperback editions of "Big Book of My World", featuring all the elements that help to build vocabulary and language confidence (the companion book is "My Book of Numbers, Shapes and Colours"). Kali's first book, Peely Wally, was selected to be part of the Booktrust's Books for Babies scheme. 150,000 copies will be distributed to mothers and babies throughout the UK in 2012.

The first literary experiences of the greatest writers of all time. “Jerome K. Jerome persuaded a group of authors each to write an article called ‘My First Book.’ I believe every writer of eminence, whom he approached, allowed himself to be caught in the Jerome net. Who can resist writing about ‘My First Book’?” -Our Paper, Volume 38, January 1, 1921 “I sat down and wrote something.” In this rare collection, Arthur Conan Doyle, R. L. Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and other late 19th century authors talk about being published for the first time. This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and humor of their experiences in writing their first book... and getting it published. Authors include Jerome K. Jerome, R. L. Stevenson, Bret Harte, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Conan Doyle and Mary Braddon. Full of charm, humor and pathos, this book is like a fireside chat with great writers of the past, as well as being a fascinating insight into the literary scene of the late 19th century. Packed with historical anecdotes you never knew, and loads of writing wisdom from the masters of the craft, “My First Book” is an indispensable collection to both readers and writers as an insight into the craft, and particularly the business of writing, that’s still refreshingly relevant. “Fifty little cylinders of manuscript did I send out during eight years, which described irregular orbits among publishers and usually came back like paper boomerangs to the place that they had started from.” -A. Conan Doyle CONTENTS READY-MONEY MORTIBOY. BY WALTER BESANT THE FAMILY SCAPEGRACE. BY JAMES PAYN THE WRECK OF THE 'GROSVENOR.' BY W. CLARK RUSSELL PHYSIOLOGICAL ÆSTHETICS AND PHILISTIA. BY GRANT ALLEN THE SHADOW OF A CRIME. BY HALL CAINE THE SOCIAL KALEIDOSCOPE. BY GEORGE R. SIMS DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. BY RUDYARD KIPLING JUVENILIA. BY A. CONAN DOYLE THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT. BY M. E. BRADDON THE HOUSE OF ELMORE. BY F. W. ROBINSON DAWN. BY H. RIDER HAGGARD HUDSON'S BAY. BY R. M. BALLANTYNE THE PREMIER AND THE PAINTER. BY I. ZANGWILL THE WESTERN AVERNUS. BY MORLEY ROBERTS A LIFE'S ATONEMENT. BY DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY A ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS. BY MARIE CORELLI ON THE STAGE AND OFF. BY JEROME K. JEROME CAVALRY LIFE. By 'JOHN STRANGE WINTER' (MRS. ARTHUR STANNARD) CALIFORNIAN VERSE. BY BRET HARTE DEAD MAN'S ROCK. BY 'Q.' UNDERTONES AND IDYLS AND LEGENDS OF INVERBURN. BY ROBERT BUCHANAN TREASURE ISLAND. BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

"Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not unfrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshippers. As we read the myths of the East and the West we find ever the same story. That portion of the ancient Aryan race which poured from the central plain of Asia, through the rocky defiles of what we now call "The Frontier, " to populate the fertile lowlands of India, had gods who must once have been wholly heroic, but who came in time to be more degraded than the most vicious of lustful criminals. "