The Magic of Oz - Couverture souple

Baum, L. F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1587260433 ISBN 13 : 9781587260438

Editeur : Mundus Artium Press, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Baum L Frank

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The discovery of a powerful magic word plunges a young boy from Oz headfirst into adventure Show Excerpt e others might not be likely to stumble upon it. So finally he decided it must be written somewhere in his own house. Bini Aru had a wife named Mopsi Aru who was famous for making fine huckleberry pies, and he had a son named Kiki Aru who was not famous at all. He was noted as being cross and disagreeable because he was not happy, and he was not happy because he wanted to go down the mountain and visit the big world below and his father would not let him. No one paid any attention to Kiki Aru, because he didn't amount to anything, anyway. Once a year there was a festival on Mount Munch which all the Hyups attended. It was held in the center of the saucer-shaped country, and the day was given over to feasting and merry-making. The young folks danced and sang songs; the women spread the tables with good things to eat, and the men played on musical instruments and told fairy tales. Kiki Aru usually went to these festivals with his parents, and then sat sullenly outside the circle and would not danc

Biographie de l'auteur

"Anyone in a fairy country like the Land of Oz can do anything" Believing that the modern fairy tale no longer required a fearsome moral rendered by horrible and blood-curdling incidents , L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) decided to create a world in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out . Since the early successes of the Oz series during the author s lifetime, and with the production of numerous stage, film, television and literary adaptations in the years since his death, Baum s magical fairyland of Oz - devised solely to please children of today has continually delighted and influenced the imaginations of millions across the world for over a century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mundus Artium Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1587260433
• ISBN 13: 9781587260438
• Reliure: Broché