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Series
Criterion collection volume 1201
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +
Language
English
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Now," continued the cat, "there is nothing more difficult than changing an animal's mind. But I will say, in case I can change yours: humans are more useful to us outside our bellies than in."
Perhaps.
After the Calamity, the animals thought the humans had managed to do themselves in. But, it turns out, a few are left cowering in makeshift villages. So the animals have selected ambassadors to vote on whether to help the last human stragglers......
4) Alebrijes
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido, distributed by Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
404 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel--or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long.
13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabeles like them--the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin...
5) Cold Hearted
Author
Series
Villains volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Hardcover Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
294 pages : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl, reeling from loss. A doting father, frantic to bring a mother's love back into his daughter's life. And the selfish, cruel woman who insinuates herself into a family--a woman so unfeeling, so cold hearted, that when her new husband dies, she makes the girl a servant in her own home.
But who is that evil stepmother, that icy lady of the house? How did she become so closed off that, in the face...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about dead bodies found in the snow, a mother seeking revenge, and old folk tales that may very well be true. New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
By now, you have probably heard the old folktale about a girl in a red cape gobbled up by a wolf. Here is the real story.
In this fresh retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Little Red lives with her mother in a village near the Great Wall of China, wears a red silk hood, and practices kung fu. When she ventures through the woods to visit her sick grandmother, she encounters something much scarier than a wolf--a mighty dragon! But with her wits and...
8) City beet
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Victoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two cards that spell and untimely death for seventeen-year-old Clara. Despite the warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara and her close friend Axel--who is fated never to be in love with her--embark on a dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm. Even though every time someone crosses the forest's border, they don't return.
Clara and Axel have no choice--entering the forest is the only way...
Author
Series
Unraveled volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after her thirteenth birthday, Cia Anderson discovers that fairy tale princesses are real, they live in New York, and they really want the spell placed on Cia when she was a baby to stop disrupting their happily-ever-afters.--
Author
Series
Unraveled volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cia Anderson starts eighth grade desperate to fit in, but is drawn back into the world of magic and fairy tales when she discovers the Evil Queen's latest scheme and sets off on a cross-continental adventure.
