Age: Europe

Materials from Europe

The Last Musketeer

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

In Paris with his parents to sell family heirlooms, fourteen-year-old Greg Rich suddenly finds himself four hundred years in the past, and is aided by boys who will one day be known as “The Three Musketeers.”

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Get Happy

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

Simple, rhyming text urges the reader to be happy by making such choices as teasing less and tickling more, or groaning less and giggling more.

Other Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Infant/toddler (ages 0-2), Ireland, Picture Book, Rhymes/songs » Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Hansel and Gretel

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

It’s a tale as timeless as storytelling itself: two children, lost in the woods, stumble upon a candy house that isn’t all that it seems. From Hansel’s trail of bread crumbs to Gretel’s ingenious triumph over the witch, the details of this familiar fairy tale enchant children year after year. Now, in an update on [...]

Other Descriptors: Folklore, Germany, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

The Pied Piper pipes a village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service, he pipes away their children as well.

Other Descriptors: Folklore, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Picture Book » Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Strega Nona’s Gift

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

In Strega Nona’s village, the holiday season is a time of celebrations-and nothing says celebration like a feast! All the kitchens are bustling from the Feast of San Nicola, when the children choose the food, to the Feast of Epiphany, when someone gets to be king or queen for the day. Even the animals share [...]

Other Descriptors: Early Years (ages 2-6), Fiction, Italy, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Under the Hood

By Book Importer | Published: November 2, 2011

A mechanic welcomes the reader to his garage where he will try to fix his car, but first needs help in finding his friends, Mouse, Crocodile, and Bird under lift-up flaps and fold-out pages.

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The Mermaid of Warsaw

By Book Importer | Published: September 28, 2011

Enchanting, wicked and often very funny, Poland’s folk tales are one of the great treasures of Central Europe. Crowned by the story of The Mermaid of Warsaw, the eight colourful tales in this collection include Skarbnik’s Second Breakfast, set deep in the Wieliczka salt mines, The Turnip-Counter from Karkonosze and The Copper Coin of Wineta, [...]

Other Descriptors: Folklore, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Poland » Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Lost Crown

By Book Importer | Published: September 28, 2011

Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia–like the fingers on a hand, Tatiana the tallest, Anastasia the smallest, Maria the one most desperate for a ring. These are the daughters of the Tsar, the daughters of the last royal Russian family. Acclaimed author Sarah Miller writes with lyricism, criticism and true compassion as she tracks this loving [...]

Other Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Russia, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

R Is for Russia

By Book Importer | Published: September 28, 2011

From Dacha to Winter Palace, from Easter Eggs to Kremlin, here is a photographic alphabet of everything we love best about Russia. The Russian Federation is a vast land of forests and steppes, deserts, rivers, lakes and big cities. Over centuries of splendour, revolution and change, our country has produced some of the greatest scientists, [...]

Other Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Russia » Themes: , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Midnight Zoo

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.

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