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Shen of the Sea is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman. It was first published by Dutton in 1925, illustrated with more than 50 silhouettes by Else Hasselriis. [ 1 ] Chrisman won the 1926 Newbery Medal for the work, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
The Sea and Little Fishes is a short story by Terry Pratchett, written in 1998. It is set in his Discworld universe, and features Lancre witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg . [ 1 ] It was originally published in a sampler alongside a story called "The Wood Boy" by Raymond E. Feist , and later in a collection called Legends .
Animal Fairy Tales is a collection of short stories written by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Land of Oz series of children's books. The stories (animal tales, comparable to Aesop's Fables or the Just-So Stories and Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling) first received magazine publication in 1905.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; Scottish Folk Tales; The Second Jungle Book; Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales; Shen of the Sea; Sir Green Hat and the Wizard; The Sneetches and Other Stories; Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night; Still William; The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; The Stone Book Quartet; Sweet William ...
The Fish of Māui, also known as Te-Ika-a-Māui, is a 1981 New Zealand children’s book by Peter Gossage, a New Zealand author. The book is retelling of the traditional Māori legend of how Māui fished up the North Island (Te Ika a Maui) of New Zealand when he sneaks onto his brothers' canoe after they have refused to take him fishing.
The common plot thread in all variants collected by German scholar Hans-Jörg Uther begins with an unhappy sailor trying to commit suicide by drowning, and meeting a talking dog that offers him help instead.
In other ways Minn of the Mississippi is typical of mid-twentieth century animal stories for children. Librarian Walter Hogan explains that mid-twentieth-century authors were "careful not to ascribe complex mental states to animals, and they avoid[ed] representing any animal's thoughts and feelings as if they were equivalent to humans."
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.