Take a classic story, substitute a few key ingredients, season freely with silliness and imagination, dress it all up in jaunty illustrations, and you get this story

Take a classic story, substitute a few key ingredients, season freely with silliness and imagination, dress it all up in jaunty illustrations, and you get this story

Prince Cinders leads a very hard life. Bullied by his three hairy brothers about his less-than-perfect looks, he spends all his time cleaning and tidying up after them. One Saturday night Prince Cinders' luck changes as a small, dirty fairy falls down the chimney and promises that his wishes shall come true. Not all the fairy's spells turn out as planned in this zany twist of a...(展开全部)

"Cole's unique brand of wacky humor is given free rein in this merry romp . . ."--Publishers Weekly. "Kids, especially those six, seven, and eight, will think this is wildly funny; some adults may think so, too."--Booklist. Full-color illustrations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A haunting work of poetic self-analysis that finds in the fragility and resilience of ashes a paradigm for the relation of language to the living and the dead In Cinders Jacques Derrida ranges across his work from the previous twenty years and discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. Among the most accessible o...(展开全部)

A haunting work of poetic self-analysis that finds in the fragility and resilience of ashes a paradigm for the relation of language to the living and the dead In Cinders Jacques Derrida ranges across his work from the previous twenty years and discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. Among the most accessible o...(展开全部)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas s...(展开全部)

汉斯·比尔(Hans de beer)，1957年生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹附近一个名叫Muiden的小镇。他在大学期间逐渐发现自己在绘画方面的兴趣与才能，于是转入雷特瓦(Rietveld)艺术学院的插画系学习。1984年毕业时，他的毕业作品《小北极熊系列》一经推出就大受欢迎，从而奠定其世界经典绘本大师的地位。他创作的图画书获奖无数，不但深受孩子喜爱，也同样攫取了许多大人的心，让你在一页页的翻页中，尽情享受着阅读的乐趣。

Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . where a battle is about to begin. A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire world.

Narnia . . . where animals talk . . . where trees walk . . . where a battle is about to begin. A prince denied his rightful throne gathers an army in a desperate attempt to rid his land of a false king. But in the end, it is a battle of honor between two men alone that will decide the fate of an entire world.