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In Margaret T. Canby's "Birdie and His Fairy Friends" (1874), there is a short story titled "The Frost Fairies." In this story, Jack Frost is the king of the Winter Spirits and is described as a kind fellow who wants to help children, whereas a king of a neighboring kingdom, King Winter, is cruel to them. The story tells the origins of how Jack ...
The Mitten (Ukrainian: Рукавичка / Rukavychka) is a Ukrainian fairy tale.It remains popular in modern Ukraine and has been translated into other languages.. Some of the written records of The Mitten date back to the 19th century and include the folklore collections of Pavlo Chubynsky.
Winter Story is a 1980 children's book, the final of the four seasons of Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge series. [1] In the book the biggest snowstorm in years leaves enough snow for an ice ball. [2] The Economist review of books described the book as a "(Beatrix) potter through Brambly Hedge", "mousy little tales with beautiful, busy drawings ...
Here is what you need to know about the Ashland Public Library's Winter StoryWalk, which features Jimmy Fallon's "5 More Sleeps 'Til Christmas."
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, [ 1 ] many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances .
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories told by a family amid a snowstorm, was extremely successful and popular in its time.
Winter Holiday is the fourth novel of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published in 1933. In this story, the third set of major characters in the series, the Ds — Dick and Dorothea Callum—are introduced. The series' usual emphasis on boats and sailing is largely absent, as the story is set in the winter.
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