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By the Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Children's LiteratureAlbert the Glassblower and Sofia are the loving parents of little Klas and Klara. Albert makes the most beautiful glass bowls and vases (unfortunately they are so impractical that no one will buy them), while Sofia supports the family by working in the fields. Every year Albert goes to the fair to try to sell his wares, and sometimes Sofia and the children go too. At the fair the family meets Flutter Mildweather, a weaver of magical rugs that foretell the future, and Klas and Klara come the attention of the splendid Lord and Lady of All Wishes Town, who have everything they want except for one thing: children.Full of curious and vivid characters—like the one-eyed raven Wise Wit, who can only see the bright side of life, and the monstrous governess Nana, whose piercing song can shatter glass—The Glassblower's Children also ponders such serious matters as what it means to find meaningful work and the difference between what you want and what you need. In The Glassblower's Children Maria Gripe has drawn on fairy tales and Norse myths to tell a thrilling story with a very modern sensibility.

A special treat for Nancy Drew fans! Out just in time for Nancy's 80th anniversary, we're releasing a limited number of copies of The Secret of the Old Clock, the first book in the series. It's the exciting mystery that readers have fallen in love with for 80 years, with a terrific new look and bonus material! Collectors won't want to miss this.

Read and listen along as Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor's vegetables in one big gulp, Veronica is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.

The Man Who Married The Moon is a collection of Pueblo Indian folk stories by renowned southwestern author, librarian, historian and archeologist Charles F. Lummis. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard University, Lummis moved to New Mexico because of lung disease. There he lived for five years in the quaint village of Isleta, the chief city of the Tée-Wahn tribe (spelled Tigua by Spanish authors), located in the southernmost part of the Pueblo lands, in what is now New Mexico. As a member of the community, Lummis learned their language, customs and myths and has written down, unchanged and unembellished, this series of Indian fairy tales. His interest was not only in the folk stories themselves, but also in the manner in which they were handed down. In an oral tradition spanning the ages, the elders would tell the tales to all and pass on the beliefs, customs and laws of this nation. Lummis would sit in the great adobe living-room of his neighbor and listen as the withered, wrinkled old man, surrounded by his children, grand-children and great grand-children, captivated all who listened to his deep, musical voice. An unhappy home was almost an unknown amongst the Tée-Wahn. There was extraordinary and universal affection for children and respect for elders. Their secret, inner religion is one of the most complicated on earth. They do nothing without a reason, and can explain any observation in their own superstitious way. Lummis'hopes when he wrote down these stories were not only in telling them, but to preserve the amusements, history, beliefs, customs and laws of a truly remarkable society.