Many years ago, there lived an emperor who was so fond of clothes, that he cared about nothing else. Soon two unscrupulous weavers persuaded the emperor to hire them and create the finest clothing ever. This cloth could only be seen by the wisest people. Stupid people could not see the cloth. Find out what happens when a child sees the truth, that the emperor is wearing no clothes at all!
Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was fascinated by the song of a nightingale from his kingdom. He had asked the nightingale to came and sing for him at his palace. After a short time the emperor was made a gift of a mechanical nightingale which could only sing one song. Soon the real nightingale left the palace because they had found more favour with the mechanical bird. Discover how the emperor and the real nightingale get together at the end.
The Emperor's New Clothes (Danish: Keiserens nye Klader) is a Danish fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837, as part of Eventyr, fortalte for Born (Fairy Tales, Told for Children).
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
"In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer." With this sobering statistic, physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee begins his comprehensive and eloquent "biography" of one of the most virulent diseases of our time. An exhaustive account of cancer's origins, The Emperor of All Maladies illustrates how modern treatments--multi-pronged chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, as well as preventative care--came into existence thanks to a century's worth of research, trials, and small, essential breakthroughs around the globe.
