Quiet, brilliant Portia has just moved to a new neighborhood with her mom. Adjusting to life without a father is hard enough, but school is boring and her classmates are standoffish -- and even Portia's mom is strangely distant. But things start looking up when Portia mounts a late-night excursion into the woods behind her house and discovers a shy, sweet-natured purple monster. Life with Jellaby is a lot more exciting, but Portia's purple friend has secrets of his own; secrets that may even lead to the mystery of Portia's father's disappearance!
When Ethan and Cathy fall ill during a storm, their father must leave them to fetch the doctor. . .but they are not alone for long. A sailor comes begging for shelter. So, the children agree to let him sit out the throes of the storm as they listen to his grisly tales. But something about the man puts Ethan on edge, and he is anxious for the storm to blow over, their father to return and the long night to come to an end.
William Shakespeare's tragic tale of Hamlet introduces us to indecision, revenge, deception and fate. Prince Hamlet mourns both his father's death and his mother Queen Gertrude's remarriage to Claudius. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and tells him that Claudius has poisoned him. Hamlet swears revenge. Everybody dies at the end.
Philip Marsham was bred to the sea as far back as the days when he was cutting his milk teeth. His mother died when he was but a child. A few years later, he ran away from school to join his father aboard the ship, Sarah. In his nineteenth year, Phil was stricken with fever while his father sailed with the Sarah. Phil was sent to regain his health at an inn owned by Moll Stevens. This was in London, England, during the reign of Charles I.
A beautiful Japanese fairy tale involving a father with two twin sons and their charming wives Yuki and Chiyo. One day Yuki and Chiyo ask the father if he will allow them to visit their relatives in a nearby village for a month. The father says that they may, only if they bring back two gifts- a paper which holds the wind and another paper which holds fire. Follow the adventures of Yuki and Chiyo as they find these magical gifts.
