Isabelle Brent Livres

Retells the Christmas story using words from the King James Version of the Bible, accompanied by the illustrator's illuminations.

A new collection of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales. There are 12 stories which include old favourites such as The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen, as well as some less well known tales such as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep and The Shadow.

The Celts are among the greatest storytellers in the world, and this volume collects some of the finest tales once told around the Celtic hearthside - a cornucopia of wonder and delight. Besides generous selections from Ireland and Scotland, there are stories from Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany and Galicia - and in his introduction Neil Philip pursues the Celtic story to its newer homes in the United States, Cape Breton, Newfoundland and Australia. The twenty stories include The Ship That Went to America, The King of Ireland's Son, Stories of Sion Cent, Duffy and the Devil and The Black Cat. The book is illustrated throughout by Isabelle Brent's magical watercolours, lavishly embellished with gold leaf, making this handsome volume a book the whole family will treasure.

This collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English-language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high drama to stuff-and-nonsense, and are presented in nine sections: Poems of Childhood and Youth; Poems of Love and Marriage; Poems of Life; Poems of Loss and Comfort; Poems of War and Peace; Poems to Read Aloud; Poems to Read Quietly; Poems of Animals and Nature, and Poems of Magic and Mystery. The anthology includes works by William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Robert Burns, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats, and the poems have all been chosen and arranged by Neil Philip. The volume is illustrated throughout with watercolour borders and decorative motifs by Isabelle Brent.

Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of animal fables and poetry. The following stories are included in the collection along with Kipling's original illustrations: How The Whale Got His Throat, How The Camel Got His Hump, How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How The Leopard Got His Spots, The Elephant's Child, The Sing-Song Of Old Man Kangaroo, The Beginning Of The Armadillos, How The First Letter Was Written, How The Alphabet Was Made, The Crab That Played With The Sea, The Cat That Walked By Himself, and The Butterfly That Stamped.

Gleich anderen europäischen Nationen erfreut sich auch das tschechische Volk eines seit Jahrhunderten liebevoll bewahrten Märchenschatzes. Manche dieser Märlein erscheinen uns fremd und exotisch, andere Motive tragen dagegen vertraute Züge. Es ist dem Sammlerfleiß von Božena Němcová (1820–1862) und Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) zu danken, daß die einst nur mündlich überlieferten Geschichten zusammengetragen und für die Nachwelt aufgezeichnet wurden. Man wird an der Moldau kaum jemanden finden, dem nicht aus frühester Jugend Käthe und der Teufel , Der Feuervogel und der Feuerfuchs oder Die Prinzessin mit dem Goldstern auf der Stirn vertraut wären. So ist diese Auswahl geeignet, dem Leser deutscher Zunge ein wichtiges Stück Landeskultur nahezubringen, während die kleinen Zuhörer dem Bann jener Worte erliegen, die überall Kinderaugen zum Leuchten bringen: „Es war einmal …“

Vrlo raskošno i kvalitetno izdanje bajki H.C. Andersena, lijepo opremljeno (pozlaćene stranice i tvrde korice) i ilustrirano. Knjiga posjeduje i poveći uvod o slavnom bajkopiscu i vremenu u kojem je stvarao i živio. Knjiga sadrži 40 ponajboljih Andersenovih bajki od ukupno 156 koliko ih je napisao. Neke njegove bajke ne uklapaju se u stereotip o bajkama sa sretnim završetkom. Mnoge kao u životu završavaju tužno, no usprkos tome uvijek su rado čitane, jer se lako poistovjećujemo s njihovim junacima. Sam Andersen imao je tegoban život, prepun nezadovoljstva i boli, ali povremeno ispunjen blistavim uspjesima, baš kao u njegovim bajkama, s kojima je postigao besmrtnost. Ružno pače, Mala sirena, Kraljevna na zrnu graška, Snježna kraljica, Carevo novo ruho – bajke Hansa Christiana Andersena postale su klasici koje svako dijete voli i kojih se svaka odrasla osoba sjeća s ljubavlju. Sva njegova najveća remek-djela pronaći ćete u ovom prekrasnom izdanju za kolekcionare, koje nema konkurencije na tržištu. Od Snježne kraljice do Divljih labudova, Andersenovi čudesni likovi oživljeni su blistavim ilustracijama u vodenim bojama… Te slike savršeno upotpunjuju njegovu živu, bezvremenu prozu koju vam sada predstavljamo u novom, lako čitljivom prijevodu vjernom originalu.