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Marisa Cooper The Agate Ring

Fiction
English
1180 Words
No Age Recommendation
369
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A fable about being greedy.

Keywords: Suddenly, there was a flash. When the flash disappeared, its place are two beautiful, auburn-haired girls.

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W.C. Gerber Little Star

Sublunary Lights: A Narration of the Moon

Fairy Tale
English
1996 Words
No Age Recommendation
1569
24

A short story that though is poetic and picture book in style applies to all in life. The [more]

Keywords: moon, star, shooting star, fairy tale, fable, night, story book, love, dream

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Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Fiction
English
990 Words
Ages 3 and up
150
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books, featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time. The book has generated considerable merchandise over the decades since its release for both children and adults with toys, dishes, foods, clothing, videos and other products made available. [more]

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Children, Children Tales, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, Fable, Tale

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Ray Klerck Ten

Juvenile Fiction
English
54914 Words
Ages 8 and up
91
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It’s 1983 when young Ricky James’s mother mysteriously disappears and he is placed in the care of an uncle he’s never met. Their riverside shack on the African coastline is where he begins a seemingly normal life. However, when he vows to find his mother he’s haunted by a plot of revenge and witchcraft that’s been waged against his family for decades. Forced on an adventure, he has to escape being hunted by a bloodthirsty creature of the deep and overcome his own demons to discover how to fill a hollowness growing in his heart. Will he find his mother, become prey thanks to his love of surfing or expose a far more terrifying truth? [more]

Keywords: fiction, adventure, surfing, shark, sea, horror, mystery, fairy tale, fable, cartoon

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George G. Asztalos A piggy story with happy-end

the circuit of meat in nature

Humor
English
69 Words
No Age Recommendation
646
0

A sort of modern fable about the stupidity of corruption.

Keywords: george g asztalos, bookrix books, a piggy story with happy end

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Anatole France Penguin Island

Satire
English
81047 Words
No Age Recommendation
328
2

Penguin Island is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France. It is concerned with grandnarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and perceives the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind and somewhat deaf, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them. This causes a problem for The Lord, who normally only allows humans to be baptized. After consulting with saints and theologians in Heaven, He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans with only a few physical traces of their ornithological origin, and giving them each a soul. Thus begins the history of Penguinia, and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and more generally of Western Europe, including German-speaking areas and the British Isles). The narrative spans from the Migration Period ("Dark Ages"), when the Germanic tribes fought incessantly among themselves for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ("Draco the Great") and conflicts with Viking raiders ("porpoises"); through the Renaissance (Erasmus); and up to the modern era with motor cars; and even into a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything begins again in an endless cycle. The longest-running plot thread, and probably the best known, satirizes the Dreyfus affair — though both brief and complex satires of European history, politics, philosophy and theology are present throughout the novel. At various points, real historical figures such as Columba and Saint Augustine are part of the story, as well as fictionalized characters who represent historical people. Penguin Island is considered a critique of human nature from a socialist standpoint, in which morals, customs and laws are lampooned. For example, the origin of the aristocracy is presented as starting with the brutal and shameless murder of a farmer, and the seizure of his land, by a physically larger and stronger neighbor. [more]

Keywords: penguin island, anatole france, classic literature, nobel prize winner, classic fiction, fantasy, satire, dystopiasn, alternative history, historical literature, historical fiction, historical fantasy, fable, dystopian novel, religious literature, satirical fiction, novel