Relates the chivalrous and romantic deeds of King Arthur, Launcelot, Gareth, Tristram, Galahad, and other knights of the Round Table.
Folklore
- Author:Malory, ThomasSummary:
- Author:Demchuk, DavidSummary:
Three neighbouring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind—and with the ruthless Night Police...
- Author:Ben Izzy, JoelSummary:
When a storyteller loses his voice, he believes he's lost everything. In fact, he's been given a great gift. Once upon a time, a successful storyteller lost his voice to throat cancer. Deprived of the instrument of his art and...
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A tale of two Jacks: one Jack the hero of traditional folktales; the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth. The documentary weaves together the real and the mythical Jack, and...
- Author:Bulfinch, ThomasSummary:
Bulfinch's masterpiece of history and fable recounts the tales of Arthur and the Round Table and how the Arthurian legend has metamorphosed from medieval Welsh texts through French romances to obscure British histories. This book...
- Author:Vivian, Evelyn CharlesSummary:
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fight against tyranny.
- Author:Yee, Paul, Ng, SimonSummary:
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the IODE National Chapter Award. Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the railway and the...
- Author:Gear, AlisonSummary:
Taan's moons is an art-based picture book developed by Alison Gear, Kiki van der Heiden, and the student artists of Haida Gwaii. In Haida language taan refers to the bear, and the Haida people have a unique way of recording time...
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Stories of the road allowance people are old men's stories, translated by Maria Campbell and given to you in the dialect and rhythm of her village and her father's generation. In the M¿Æis oral tradition, these stories must be...
- Author:Brown, MarciaSummary:
When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
- Author:Birdseye, Tom.Summary:
Deep in the mountains of North Carolina, there once lived a young boy with such a poor memory that he sometimes forgot his own name. Now, Plug Honeycut's mother loved him. So she was the only one who had enough faith in her son to...
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Join Raven, Eagle and Frog in a land before time! Raven Tales concentrates on the wild and funny adventures of Raven, the most powerful, and one might add, trickiest trouble-maker of the First Nations' folklore.
- Author:Stott, Jon C., Dombrowski, TheoSummary:
It is hard to imagine life without fire. Heat, light, food—where would we be without these essentials? Although we do not rely on fire as much today as in times past, nor have as much direct contact with it, fire was often crucial to...
- Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
Two gifted northern writers, Rachel A. Qitsualik and Sean A. Tinsley, have collaborated to produce mesmerizing prose interpretations of Inuit creation stories. Readers will be drawn in by the humour, wisdom, and depth of these inspired...
- Author:Christopher, Danny, Akulukjuk, RoselynnSummary:
What creatures lurk beneath the sea ice? Putuguq and Kublu-two siblings who can't seem to get along-are about to find out! On their way to the shoreline, Putuguq and Kublu run into their grandfather, who has a stern warning for the pair...
- Author:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
The children of the Tsimshian village of Kitkatla love to play at being hunters, eager for their turn to join the grown-ups. But when they capture and mistreat a crow, the Chief of the Heavens, angered at their disrespect, brings down a...
- Author:Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
"A retelling of an ancient story that will captivate readers young and old."--Inside jacket cover
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"Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature. In These Are Our Legends, the fifth volume of the First Nations Language Readers series, the reader will discover...
- Author:Oldland, NicholasSummary:
Il était une fois un ours, un orignal et un castor qui étaient de grands amis même s'ils étaient souvent en désaccord. Un jour, ils décident de partir en canot. Arrivés aux abords d'un rapide tumultueux, se mettront-ils d'accord sur la...
- Author:Isluanik, HenrySummary:
Henry Isluanik retells the Kiviuq legend, a version passed on to him by his mother, of a courageous hunter who was swept out to sea during a storm and who spent many years trying to find his way back home.