Gail Carson Levine’s first published novel, Ella Enchanted, won a Newbery Honor, became a bestseller, and was the basis for a popular movie. A retelling of the classic Cinderella tale, Ella Enchanted was only the beginning for Levine. She has written nine more books and is still going strong. But Levine’s road to success was not easy. She wrote dozens of books and took many writing classes before her work was ever published. Gail Carson Levine is a well-crafted and colorfully illustrated biography...
The Enchanted Frog / Rosenella [Let's Pretend Series
Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack (1891-1953), was a long-run CBS radio series for children. Mack's Let's Pretend began March 24, 1934, running for two decades before the final show on October 23, 1954. Adaptations included classics and fairy tales.The series received numerous awards, including two Peabody Awards, a Women’s National Radio Committee Award and five Radio Daily Awards.In 1970 Telegeneral adapted these stories on vinyl records.
The Red Fairy Book
Edited by Andrew Lang
37 familiar ("Rapunzel," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "The Golden Goose,") and not-so-familiar stories ("The Voice of Death," "The Enchanted Pig," and "The Master Thief")
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice.
