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The perfectly crafted rhyming text is ideal for reading aloud. And the ambitious princess is a great touch." [1] Zog has also been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, [2] Booklist, [3] and the School Library Journal. [3] In 2010, the story book won the Galaxy National Book Award. [4]
In the TV series Thomas & Friends an episode named "Three Steam Engines Gruff" is a reference to this story. Between the Lions had a few episodes about the characters reading the story. In music. The tale appears to be cryptically referenced in the song "John Brown" (1988) by indie-rock band Masters of Reality. The lyrics are usually understood ...
Mr. Paradise is curiously named; 'paradise' is evocative both of the Garden of Eden and Heaven; While Bevel is promised Heaven and Salvation by the evangelist and the river, the river baptism doesn't cure Mr. Paradise's cancer or make him 'count' to his mother or his family, and the river in fact sweeps Bevel away to his death; the River ...
Big Pumpkin is a children's book written by Erica Silverman, illustrated by S. D. Schindler, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1992. The story is loosely based on a Russian folktale , " The Gigantic Turnip ", and takes place on Halloween as a witch struggles to release her pumpkin from a vine.
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The story makes extensive use of the literary rule of three, featuring three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and the three title characters who live in the house. There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their ...
Eight of these stories also appeared in Strange News from Another Star (Märchen), a short story collection originally published in German in 1919 and in English in 1972, translated by Denver Lindley. The stories are: "Augustus" "The Poet" "Flute Dream" "Strange News from Another Planet" (titled "Strange News from Another Star")
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