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Publishers Weekly described the book as "rousingly old-fashioned", and stated that fans of Redwall would enjoy it. [1] Kirkus Reviews praised Jacques' ability to skillfully switch between multiple plot strands and characters without confusion, as well as his well-individualized characters. However, they also commented on the simplicity of the ...
The Lottery Rose is a 1976 young adult novel by Newbery-winning author Irene Hunt. [1] Though written at a middle-school reading level, this book is also suitable for high school readers due to high-interest subject matter.
What the Rose did to the Cypress is a Persian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book (1904), [ 1 ] with the note "Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge."
The Desert Rose, for example, was written at a time when there was a shift in taste in Las Vegas, away from the big-bosomed showgirls. Small-breasted dancers came to be preferred, and Harmony, my showgirl, was out of a job, like the cowboys in my other fiction." [6] McMurtry later wrote a sequel to the book called The Late Child.
Once upon a time, there was a man named Muryong whose wife had a dream where an angel gave her a beautiful flower. Ten months later, she gave birth to a pretty baby girl, who the couple named "Janghwa" ("Rose Flower"). Two years later, they had another pretty girl and named her "Hongryeon" ("Red Lotus").
The Scarlet Flower (Russian: Аленький цветочек, romanized: Alen'kiy tsvetochek), also known as The Little Scarlet Flower [1] or The Little Red Flower, [2] is a Russian literary fairy tale written by Sergey Aksakov. It is a variation of the plot of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. [3]
The Sword and the Rose is a family/adventure film produced by Perce Pearce and Walt Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England. Based on the 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major (1856-1913), of Shelbyville, Indiana.
The manga Berusaiyu no Bara Gaiden (a side story from The Rose of Versailles) has her story updated to 18th century France and she is confronted by the characters from the main series, Oscar François de Jarjayes and her friends. In the DC Comics book series Secret Six, the origin of the character Jeannette is revealed. She was taken hostage by ...