Alison Ainsworth Livres

Orpheline, Heidi est confiée à son grand-père, qui vit seul dans un chalet isolé, près de l'alpage. La petite fille ne tarde pas à gagner l'affection de son aïeul, pourtant considéré comme un ours par les habitants du village. Les jours s'écoulent en toute harmonie, ponctués par le bruissement des grands sapins, le bêlement des chèvres et les découvertes enthousiastes de Heidi devant une nature si prodigieuse. Jusqu'à ce que l'enfant soit emmenée par sa tante pour être placée dans une famille aisée de Francfort, bien loin de ses montagnes chéries...

When Princess Aurora is cursed by an evil fairy as a baby, she is raised in hiding by the three good fairies. Later she falls in love with Prince Philip, but the curse is too powerful and she slips into a deep sleep. Will the prince be able to save Princess Aurora with true love's kiss?

Il s'agit de l'adaptation du fameux conte d' Andersen. Dans une famille de canards naît un caneton pas comme les autres. Rejeté à cause de sa différence, le vilain petit canard fuit et part à la recherche de qui voudra l'aimer. C'est au cours de ce périple qu'il grandit et se rend compte qu'il n'est pas un canard, mais un cygne ; parmi les plus beaux des oiseaux.

Mowgli, the man-cub, is raised by wolves in the jungles of India. His friends and teachers are Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, and their enemy is the ferocious tiger Shere Khan. Mowgli's life is filled with adventure, and a thrilling chance to become a true hero of the jungle.'

Mowgli, the 'man-cub', is raised by wolves. His friends are Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, and their enemy is the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan. Mowgli's life is filled with adventure - and a thrilling chance to become a true hero of the jungle.

The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed; and as each crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the snowy heap, which looked like a drift of transparent clouds or a pile of foamy white-of-egg beaten stiff enough to stand alone. These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and it was Clover's first evening dress for which they were hemming ruffles. It was nearly two years since a certain visit made by Johnnie to Inches Mills, of which some of you have read in "Nine Little Goslings;" and more than three since Clover and Katy had returned home from the boarding-school at Hillsover. Clover was now eighteen. She was a very small Clover still, but it would have been hard to find anywhere a prettier little maiden than she had grown to be. Her skin was so exquisitely fair that her arms and wrists and shoulders, which were round and dimpled like a baby's, seemed cut out of daisies or white rose leaves. Her thick, brown hair waved and coiled gracefully about her head. Her smile was peculiarly sweet; and the eyes, always Clover's chief beauty, had still that pathetic look which made them irresistible to tender-hearted people.

Thumbelina is no bigger than your thumb! Thumbelina is content to spend her days rowing in a boat made from a tulip petal and sleeping in a cradle made from a polished walnut shell. Then one horrible night a toad kidnaps her, and she is tossed from one wretched adventure to another. Will Thumbelina be forced to marry the toad's son or spend her days deep underground with a rich mole? Only her steadfast kindness and bravery and the help of some loyal friends will lead Thumbelina to true love.

The former Well Loved Tales series have been redesigned with brighter inks and coated paper to enhance the appeal of these fairy tales to young children. They are all intended for one level of readability and are considered ideal bedtime stories. This is the story of Sleeping Beauty.

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.