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Bertram and his fabulous animals
First published in 1937, this is a collection of ten stories \"about a boy named Bertram who goes on adventures that involve fantastical animals\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican
American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A
Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative
descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary
creatures from the Nahua, Aztec, Maya, Tabasco, Inca, Aymara, and
other cultures of Latin America.
From the siren-like Acuecuéyotl and the water animal Chaac to
the class-conscious Oc and the god of light and darkness Xólotl,
the magnificent entities in this volume belong to the same family
of real and invented creatures imagined by Dante, Franz Kafka, C.
S. Lewis, Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, and J. K. Rowling. They
are mined from indigenous religious texts, like the Popol
Vuh, and from chronicles, both real and fictional, of the
Spanish conquest by Diego Durán, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and
Fernando de Zarzamora, among others. In this playful compilation,
Stavans distills imagery from the work of magic realist masters
such as Juan Rulfo and Gabriel García Márquez; from songs of
protest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru; and from aboriginal beasts
in Jewish, Muslim, European, British, and other traditions. In the
spirit of imaginative invention, even the bibliography is a mixture
of authentic and concocted material.
An inspiring record of resistance and memory from a civilization
whose superb pantheon of myths never ceases to amaze, A
Pre-Columbian Bestiary will delight anyone interested in the
history and culture of Latin America.
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Endling : the first
\"Endling: The First is the second book in an epic middle grade animal fantasy series by Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The One and Only Ivan, Wishtree, and Crenshaw! To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the world--the endling--Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with each passing day. As the group confronts untold dangers at every turn, they will ultimately uncover a treacherous plot that involves the other powerful governing species. With both her dreams and all the creatures of Nedarra on the brink of extinction, Byx and her friends are determined to never give up hope. Soon they find themselves the unlikely leaders in a simmering rebellion that risks everything they hold dear. Byx may be the last of her kind, but will she also be the first to lead the revolution? In this sequel to the New York Times bestselling first book--which received four starred reviews--Katherine Applegate once again delivers an action-packed middle grade fantasy with a unique setting, enthralling characters, and gripping adventure that is perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, Brian Jacques, and Tui T. Sutherland.\"--Publisher's description.
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A Jewish Bestiary
\"Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven
and they will tell thee.\" -Job 12:7
In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second
only to that of the Bible. In addition to being a kind of
encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, the bestiary also served as a
book of moral and religious instruction, teaching human virtues
through a portrayal of an animal's true or imagined behavior. In
A Jewish Bestiary , Mark Podwal revisits animals, both real
and mythical, that have captured the Jewish imagination through the
centuries.
Originally published in 1984 and called \"broad in learning and
deep in subtle humor\" by the New York Times , this updated
edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color
renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore.
The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive
tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic
sources. Throughout, Podwal combines traditional Jewish themes with
his own distinctive style. The resulting juxtaposition of art with
history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the
twenty-first century.
From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a
special force on the Jewish fancy.
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The Song of BEOWULF
An epic poem is a performance. The telling of Beowulf carries something of the days of its pre-literary composition, as it evolved as something memorised, half spoken and half sung, over many generations. The single manuscript we have, from about 1000 AD, is the end result of a great chain of poetic adaptation. Of all new versions Seamus Heaneys (1999) has made the most striking impact, in part for his willingness to experiment, to be a new scop or oral poet, to depart at times from the exact text and join the tradition when there was no such thing. The licence such an approach adopts can make for a riveting poem in itself, a work of wonder. But there is a different route to the flame of the original. J.D. Winters rendering of the Beowulf song accepts the text as historical fact, and by a gradual revelation of its deeper music, discovers an illumination from within. The voice is less his and more nearly of the time and world of the poem itself. But this is without recourse to an archaic register. It is the modern language and yet not the modern man speaking. The phrases of the text, like phrases of music with their crescendos and diminuendos, steadily and unhurriedly move towards the culmination of a powerfully fulfilling symphony. It is the expression of a simpler time than ours, and perhaps a more plain-speaking one. Yet its art was at least as sophisticated as the modern worlds. The clarity and concentration of meaning in the brilliantly alliterated half-lines can never be properly reconstructed. But a suggestion of that force and beauty, together with an underlying sense of the inexorable, may always be rediscovered. In the knock and flow of the lines, too, one can sense the poetry of a sea-faring nation. The nation is not England or Sweden or Denmark. It is an intermingled part of Northern Europe using the West Saxon dialect of the language in England to convey a mix of Scandinavian history and Teutonic legend. In this evocative transcreation the reader may come, no doubt as did the early listeners, to a simple truth behind the medley of international borders: the inevitable journey of the universal human.
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Unicorns 101
Invites the reader to join top unicorn scientists as they clear up the myths and misconceptions people have about these majestic creatures and their abilities.
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Soon We Will Grow Tails
This essay articulates a relationship between migration, memory, and animals in Madeleine Thien’s novel Dogs at the Perimeter. By exploring the history of the Cambodian Genocide and how survivors turn to animals and animality to work through memories, I demonstrate how the figure of the refugee imagines new modalities of the human. A central assertion of this essay is that the main character Janie’s relationships to animals undo and reimagine the not-quite-human. In this space of the not-quite-human, kinships that include and move beyond the human come forward.
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Monster mission
As they get older, three sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
Necessary and Unnecessary Monsters: Jorge Luis Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges's Manual de zoologia fantastica, published in 1957 and translated as The Book of Imaginary Beings, constitutes a modern bestiary of mythical and fabulous creatures that Borges himself once dismissed as a mere \"sideshow. \" Although critics have largely followed the author in reading this book, as a curious but unoriginal compilation of already-told tales, certain literary strategies mark it as an original Borgesian text, one worthy of serious consideration. The writer's signature concerns are revealed in the tension between inventory and imagination–that is, between the role of the manual in classifying the empirical world and the role of the fantastic in expanding the bounds of that world. Borges alternately conceals and reveals his \"authority\" in the matter of imaginary beings, layering a bemused irony over the ground of a vast–though sometimes spurious–erudition.
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