Found 5,081 results for "Magic -- History."
Thumbelina
by Hans Christian Andersen, Elsa Beskow
Once upon a time there was a woman who longed to have a tiny child of her own, but she had no idea where to get one.
At the Back of the North Wind
by George MacDonald
I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind.
The World Almanac for Kids
by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel
One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...
Of mice and magic
by Leonard Maltin
TOWARD THE END of the 1920s, a large group of New York animators held a testimonial dinner for Winsor McCay, whom most c...
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
I WAS BORN in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
SOME YEARS AGO there was in the city of York a society of magicians.
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.
Silas Marner
by George Eliot, John O'Connor
IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...
The Magic School Bus
by Joanna Cole
Suddenly, Ms. Frizzle said, "Please pay attention, children.
Egyptian magic
by E. A. Wallis Budge
IN the first volume of this series an attempt was made to set before the reader a statement of the ideas and beliefs whi...
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
Rinkitink in Oz
by L. Frank Baum
If you have a map of the Land of Oz handy, you will find that the great Nonestic Ocean washes the shores of the Kingdom ...