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宮城県塩釜港のほど近くに住む長谷川ゆきさんは、長年絵本の読み聞かせの活動を行いながら、自宅で絵本文庫を開く準備を進め、2011年の夏には開館できる予定だった。 しかし、同年3月11日、長谷川さんの自宅も津波に襲われた。 1階にあった家財、ピアノ、そして30年以上かけてコツコツ集めてきた約800冊の絵本を失った。 長谷川さんの喪失感は大きく、しばらくの間は呆然としていたが、避難所での暮らしを送るなかで、請われて絵本の読み聞かせを再開し、活動を続けるうちに自分を取り戻すことができたという。 念願だった絵本文庫の夢も、全国から届けられた絵本によって後押しされ、2012年11月に「うみべの文庫」として実現。今では子どもも大人も集う憩いの場となっている。 「絵本に支えられてもらった」という長谷川ゆきさんが読むのは、『ごんぎつね』で知られる新美南吉の『里の春、山の春』。日本語の美しさが伝わる長谷川さんの大好きな作品のひとつ。2016年3月の空気感と共に。 （2016年3月10日　うみべの文庫で収録） ※本コンテンツは、「サンプルを聴く」ボタンの再生で作品全編を聴くことができます。

The Land of Nod used to be just a name in a nursery rhyme to Wren. But when she discovered the secret magic of stardust, she learned that some of those rhymes had secrets of their own - and the Land of Nod is real. A few months ago, the evil Magician Boggen attempted to escape his exile on Nod and return to Earth. Wren stopped him, but Boggen is still out there. To save her world, Wren will travel farther than even she could have dreamed: to the heart of Nod itself, where she must defeat Boggen once and for all.

夏休み、ロンドンに住む少年ディゴリーと少女ポリーは、棟続きのテラスハウスの屋根裏を探検している最中、あやまってディゴリーの伯父さんの立入禁止の書斎に入り込んでしまう。伯父さんの口車にのって魔法の指輪に触れたポリーは、この世界とはまったく別の世界へと飛ばされてしまった。

Ready yourself for a trip down the road to a magical kingdom with beautiful and spirited princesses, handsome and courageous princes, hideous giants, vengeful witches and exciting adventures. Princess Stories is a collection of five classic fairy tales that have enraptured generations of children. The stories are retold in simple language and a lively tone, which make this book a delightful listen.

Dans ce deuxième tome des Créatures fantastiques du Québec, Bryan Perro continue de nous parler des personnages mystérieux qui ont élu domicile au cœur de nos villages, de nos forêts, de nos lacs et de nos montagnes. On y découvre, entre autres, la bête qui terrifie les habitants de la Baie-des-Chaleurs, ou encore les étranges pouvoirs du sorcier de l'île d'Anticosti. Mystères et légendes sont au rendez-vous!

Birbal was a minister in the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar and one of the members of his inner council of nine advisors. He was famous for his sharp intellect and a keen sense of humour. The stories of Akbar and Birbal are very popular among children and adults alike and form an indispensable part of the Indian folklore.

Estas leyendas nos dicen cómo Santa María ayuda siempre a los que la quieren. Pero también nos la muestran a veces muy enfadada, dando palos al diablo o regañando a un obispo orgulloso. Oyéndolas, oiremos hablar a una imagen de Cristo como testigo, y también veremos cómo el insensato Teófilo entrega su alma al diablo en una carta, o cómo la Virgen salva a una pobre mujer de morir ahogada cuando crece la marea y le ayuda a dar a luz.

Everyone said the Graces were witches. They moved through the corridors like sleek fish, ripples in their wake. Stares followed their backs and their hair. They had friends, but they were just distractions. They were waiting for someone different. All I had to do was show them that person was me. Like everyone else in her town, River is obsessed with the Graces, attracted by their glamour and apparent ability to weave magic. But are they really what they seem? And are they more dangerous than they let on?

Charlie Lawson's only summer excitement in small-town Wisconsin came from kicking butt in video games, where he's the undisputed Total Turbo champ. Now it's time to go back to middle school, where nine long months of boredom await. But then Charlie stumbles onto something big happening inside the abandoned warehouse across the street from his house. Specifically, someone big. He befriends Bruce, a 20-foot-tall teenage giant whom Charlie must keep a secret.

A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan.

Spider is walking through the jungle one day when he hears about a party that is to happen in the east. He decides he will go, as there will be lots to eat and drink. He walks on and hears about a party in the west, then on and hears about a party in the north and then one in the south. He wants to go to all the parties, but he neglected to find out the times they started. He just knows they are all on the same night. He gets an idea. He asks four of his cousins to come over.

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales - but the villains themselves beg to differ. In Troll's-Eye View, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumpelstiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Jane Yolen, and Nancy Farmer, makes sure that these old stories do new tricks!

Thirteen award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers offer up their versions of these classic fairy tales as well as other favorites, including The Ugly Duckling, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, and more. Some of the stories are funny, some are strange, and others are dark and disturbing - but each offers something as unexpected as a wolf at the door.

With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking Summer's mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face, but Summer suspects she's up to no good....

In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and helpful. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. Myrtle is rude and spiteful. Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right - until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life!

The young maiden, Parsley, will eat nothing but parsley, which in Snettering-on-Snoakes grows only in the fairy Bombina's garden. All is well - until Bombina is released from the fairy queen's dungeon. Her crime? Failing to get along with humans. And turning them into toads! Meanwhile, twin princes Randolph and Rudolph are causing trouble at Biddle Castle and pinning everything on their younger brother, Tansy. Prince Tansy cares about Biddle. Randolph and Rudolph don't. But one of the twins will be king, unless Prince Tansy accepts help from a green Biddlebum Toad!

Turning thirteen starts off with a bang for Lily. Literally. A birthday present explodes on her porch... and soon after a trio of leprechauns (yes, leprechauns) appears in her bedroom. They whisk her away to a land of clover, pixies, a new friend, a cute boy, and lots of glimmering, glittering gold. A world of Green. It turns out that Lily, like her grandmother before her, is next in line to be keeper for the Clan of Green, and in charge of all their gold. That is, if she passes three tests. And she has to pass them. Because if she doesn’t she may never get to go home again.

Ark lives a mile up from the ground - in the last trees in the world. But Ravenwood faces a new threat by the empire that wants its precious wood. Ark and his friends must travel deep into enemy heartland to find out what evil is planned. Awaiting them is a glittering forest of glass skyscrapers, a twisted echo of home.

After their near-fatal battle with Poseidon, Charlotte and Zee would love nothing more than to relax and forget all over again that the Greek gods are real. But with the world in peril and no one else to save it, that just isn’t an option. Charlotte and Zee meet the Prometheans, an ancient brotherhood trying to protect mankind from the whims of the gods, who think they might have finally found a weapon capable of bringing Zeus to his knees. But using this weapon will come at a great cost, one Charlotte and Zee are not willing to pay.

Max’s village is absolutely normal in every single way and on every single day—except Wednesday. Most of the townsfolk shutter their windows and lock their doors to hide away from the many peculiar things that happen—things like cats getting stuck in the vacuum cleaner and birthday cakes meeting fiery and horrific ends. But Max is too curious for that, and so, breaking every rule in the village, he searches out the cause of all the Wednesday weirdness.