Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2008-10
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780152064426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780152046187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Russell is sure the "monster" ring is just a silly trick but he follows the instructions anyway and suddenly he's sprouting horns!
Author: W. J. Corbett
Publisher: Hachette Children's
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1444907867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Head keeper Ken is world-famous for never turning a difficult animal away. Ken's zoo gives a 'last chance', offering a home to all those animals whose misbehaviour or strange habits have led to their exclusion from other zoos. But Ken and his wife adore animals, and have collected a team of keepers who share their passion and their unusual approach to animal care. However naughty or difficult an animal, Ken's zoo will always give them plenty of care and understanding. Remaining forever calm, Ken is infinitely resourceful with his network of world-wide contacts - and always thrives on a crisis. This time, he's got beavers who won't stop building dams, unruly ostriches, a baby crocodile with teething problems, and a baby giraffe afraid of heights ... And, when the Council decide to close the zoo, there's a dragon at the gates ...
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2009-08-13
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780810863453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author: Allen Stroud
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-06-12
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1538166070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fantasy is a genre in motion, gradually expanding its reach and historical sources to embrace a global identity Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, Second Edition is a snapshot of the genre in this moment, identifying new themes and sources that are emerging to inspire, enhance and invigorate the published works of fantasy writers.
Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780340860779
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mr Elives' Magic Shop seems to appear from nowhere - and disappears again just as fast! Never in the same place twice, it sells only the most exclusive wares... A talking toad, anyone? A dragon's egg? There's plenty to choose from... When Russell buys a magic ring from weird Mr Elives, he's told it will turn him into a monster. Just the thing for school! Russell's sure it's all a stupid trick - until he whispers the chant, twists the ring and begins to sprout horns... At first it's fun changing from boy to monster and back again, but Russell hasn't paid proper attention to the instructions - and now he's gone too far...
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1322
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Author: Mel Gilden
Publisher: Ibooks for Young Readers
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781596877900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →MONSTER BOY A SUPER TRIP! The fifth grade class trip to the Museum of Strange Sciences and Inventions sounded super to Danny Keegan and his monster pals. But when class bully Stevie Brickwald starts touching the museum displays, things get very weird! Danny is zapped into a different Brooklyn. Now he's the kid with strange powers and all his friends are normal. Now he can fly like a bat, swim like a fish, and smell like a werewolf. In this wild new Brooklyn, Stevie Brickwald is a 25-foot-tall menace, and the only one who can stop him is Danny Keegan, Monster Boy! WELCOME TO P.S. 13 and the crazy classroom of the FIFTH GRADE MONSTERS!