Books by Neil Philip

A retelling of a classic myth adventure is filled with deep-sea terrors, hideous monsters, furious gods, bewitching sirens, faithful families, and more, in a story complemented with Aegean blue-hued illustrations.

An illustrated anthology of American fairy tales includes both traditional favorites and lesser-known works by Carl Sandburg, Frank Stockton, Louisa May Alcott, and others.

A newly illustrated collection of the classic stories from The Arabian Nights, including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," gives these familiar tales new energy, revitalizing them for today's readers.

Illustrations of holiday and winter scenes adorn a sampling of twenty-four stories, carols, and poems that capture the spirit of Christmas.

This moving collection of first-person narratives celebrates the individuality and variety of the Native American experience. Men and women representing many Native American groups speak about childhood and growing up-games and rites of passage, education and learning, tradition and change. This companion volume to Neil Philip's acclaimed IN A SACRED MANNER I LIVE is touching and dramatic, easily accessible to young readers, who will identify with its celebration of universal childhood experiences. Introduction, indexes of speakers/writers and Indian nations, suggestions for further reading, source notes.

A collection of holiday fairy tales from around the world includes works by American Frank Stockdale, Ruth Sawyer, Hans Christian Andersen, and E. T. A. Hoffman.

An illustrated collection of eleven classic tales including such favorites as "The Little Red Hen", "Cinderella", and "Sleeping Beauty".

Presents twelve familiar stories--including the tale of the elephant child with the 'satiable curiosity who journeyed to the Limpopo river--along with two lesser-known pieces.

Gathers newspaper articles by Dickens about London criminals, prisons, schools, workhouses, homes for fallen women, education, sanitation, and the law.

The adventures of a drake who becomes a king with the help of a fox, ladder, river, and wasp's nest.

This eloquent new anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. The chants, prayers, and songs in these pages vibrate with wisdom, joy, and terrible sadness. Underlying everything is a sense of the sacred - the wish, as one Yokuts poet says, to be "one with the world". The sixty poems in this collection are accompanied by over forty unforgettable duotone photographs by Edward S. Curtis. This stunning combination of word and image brings us closer than ever before to the heart of Native American traditions. The poems come from the woodlands, the plains, the deserts, and the pueblos. They speak of love, of war, of the known and the unknowable. Today's flowering of new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. This anthology aims to give a representative selection of the best of those traditions, from Maine to California.

Filled with adventure, humor, and romance, these 22 newly retold stories from Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and other countries reflect their shared Eastern European heritage.

A collection of Irish fairy tales, with a concentration on the fairies themselves, including "The Stolen Child," "The Witches' Excursion," and "The Horned Women"

Oscar Wilde, playwright, poet, and man of letters, also wrote some of the most beautiful fairy tales of the Victorian era. This spectacular volume includes the complete tales, luminously illustrated with richly patterned borders accented in gold. Full-color illustrations.

The fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers are among the most enduring of children's literature. This new selection of some of their best stories includes old favorites such as "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunzel", and "Snow White", along with some lesser-known tales and comic gems. Full color.

Retells the classic Brothers Grimm story of a youngest son's quest for a golden bird, horse, and princess despite long travel, temptation, and the treachery of his brothers, in a lavishly illustrated rendition with gold-leaf designs.

American history with a difference, this is a lively and authoritative history of the Native American nations, from preColumbian times to the reclaiming of traditions that is taking place today. Neil Philip explores Native American ideas about land and society, religion, science, and history, and shows how the differences between these and the ideas of the whites resulted in the sad catalog of misunderstandings and betrayals in treaty talks and settlements. It is also a tale of resilience and renewal, including a positive assessment of Native American cultures as they enter the new millennium. Spoken and written accounts by Native Americans are drawn on extensively, and the volume will be illustrated with archival photographs.

A simple peasant boy marries a beautiful princess after rescuing her from a cruel fate at the hands of wicked fairies.

A companion volume to the well-received collection of American folk material, STOCKINGS OF BUTTERMILK, this collection will show the range and humor of Mexican folklore. To be illustrated in vivid color, in Jacqueline Mair's folkloric style.

With contributions from A. A. Milne, Christina Rossetti, and Douglas Florian, a colorful anthology provides young readers with a simple collection of poetry about an array of tasty treats of all shapes, sizes, and colors.

An exuberant collection of Caribbean folk rhymes, selected from a classic collection and featuring annotations by a respected folklorist, includes tunes for the rhymes and lively illustrations.

A collection spanning nearly four centuries combines expressive duotone photographs with speeches, or portions of speeches, made by Native Americans, and includes captions and editor's notes. Reprint.

This extraordinary selection of Native American speeches and speech excerpts is culled from more than four centuries of the thoughts, beliefs, and practices of a people striving to live in a sacred manner of spiritual and ecological harmony. Archival and contemporary photos and historical notes makes this anthology accessible to a young audience.

A collection of 58 short prayers from major religions--Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam--is divided into thematic sections and includes tribal chants, folk rhymes, and poems of praise and devotion.

Captures the spirit of women in the world today through a collection of sixty poems by various authors, such as Adrenne Rich and Lucille Clifton.

Distinctively beautiful illustrations using gold foil illumination highlight a rich new retelling of the classic tale of the greedy King Midas and his golden touch.

Retells the life of Jesus Christ.

“The Little Mermaid” is one of the most haunting stories ever written. Its author, Hans Christian Andersen, made the literary fairy tale so much his own that even today no writer has surpassed him. This collection, with an introduction and fresh new translations of the tales by Neil Philip, includes such favorites as “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Little Match Girl,” and “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” as well as eleven other tales. The book is illustrated throughout with Isabelle Brent’s intricate watercolors, accented in rich fifth-color gold, which elegantly compliment these magical tales.

An illustrated collection of folktales provides stories about an array of small folk, such as fairies, sprites, brownies, lutins, pixies, and others, as they live and exist in their own unique worlds.

Short, catchy verses and whimsical illustrations present comical poems about such characters as a man who eats upside down, a king and queen who do nothing but argue, and a naughty girl who throws things at her teacher.

From the mighty Zeus of ancient Greece to the trickster Coyote of Native America, a host of legendary icons spring to life in this comprehensive overview of world mythology.

Introduces young readers to the history of myths and legends from around the world through a review of the inspirations of the civilizations that created them through detailed text, sidebars, full-color illustrations, photos, and index.

Neil Philip has surveyed and mapped the delightfully protean landscape of children's poetry in a book that spans some 250 years, from Isaac Watts, the first true children's poet, to such classic figures as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and A.A. Milne and contemporary writers such as Richard Wilbur, Sandra Cisneros, and Jack Prelutsky. Includes over 350 poems.

This benchmark collection of verse is a pleasure to read and to hold, and will open doors of poetic magic for a new generation. Selected for their inherent freshness and lively rhythms, the 288 poems are by writers such as Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Walt Whitman, and William Blake. Illustrated.

Stories about the adventures of Odin, father of the gods, and his children bring out both the comic and tragic elements of the Viking myths and feature the thunder god, Thor, and the frost giant, Loki.

The telling of folktales in Scotland comes from an oral tradition that blends rich imagination with verbal artistry. Kate Crackernuts and the two herdsmen of Lochbuie, the Black Laird and the Milk-white Doo, Oisean, Mac Iain Direach and the wonders of the Whuppity Stoorie - these are some of the colourful myths and legends that survive from Scotland's turbulent past. Neil Philip's extensive collection brings together stirring stories from all parts of Scotland. Here are over 100 memorable tales - from the vibrant Gaelic tradition of the Highlands and Islands to the enduring legends handed down by the Lowland Scots.

In a fairy tale collection unlike any other, readers young and old will find themselves entranced by the fascinating adventures, and the deep spiritual meaning folded within each tale.

A holiday anthology for every member of the family includes fifty-seven classic poems and dozens of engravings, highlighting such works as Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and Longfellow's "Snowflakes."

A fully illustrated, first book of poetry features the work of a wide range of poets, from modern masters like Eve Merriam and Carl Sandburg to old favorites like Edward Lear and Christina Rossetti, expressing a wide range of emotions.

As a result of a sorcerer's curse, Prince Zucchini is born with a very large nose, but he does not realize it until he falls in love with a small-nosed princess.

Expert abridgements and retellings are matched with brilliant illustrations to create books that will capture the attention of today's visually sophisticated children. The wealth of factual content includes new photography, prints, diagrams, and maps, all employed to provide a rich backdrop to these classic tales.

When the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kay, Gerda sets out on a perilous and magical journey to find him.

The knight Gawain recounts the adventures of King Arthur and his fellow members of the Round Table, his own battle with the Green Knight, his marriage, and the final days before the fall of Camelot.

Hardy's first major novel tells the story of the shepherd Gabriel Oak and his long, patient devotion to the haughty Bathsheba Everdene. Bathsheba's faithless husband is murdered by a neighboring farmer, William Bellwood, who also loves her. At the end of a traumatic series of events, a chastened Bathsheba turns to Gabriel at last, valuing his honesty and integrity. Like Hardy's later novels, this one is characterized by coincidence, melodrama, and a degree of improbability. It also emphasizes the role of natural forces--the earth and the rhythms of rural life--all of which are personified in Gabriel Oak. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, like most of Hardy's works, glorifies rural life, which was fast disappearing with the advent of industrialization. His descriptions of the lush English countryside in Dorsetshire, his use of dialect, his appreciation for the honest rustic virtues of hard work, fairness, and independence of mind--all appear here, and the title itself is suggests the superiority of life outside the cities. The novel is also less bleak and unforgiving than the later works, and is remarkable for its insight into the complexities of character, particularly that of the many-faceted Bathsheba. With FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, published in 1874, Hardy was recognized as a major writer and was able to devote himself exclusively to writing. THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE begins with the famous scene in which Michael Henchard, a young farmer, gets drunk at a village fair and sells his wife and baby daughter to a passing sailor for five guineas. The consequences of this impulsive act are regrettable and far-reaching, and culminate in Henchard's ruin and his death in obscurity as a lonely old man. Henchard is similar to the heroes of Greek tragedies who destroy themselves through weaknesses in their own character. (The subtitle of the novel is "The Life and Death of a Man of Character.") TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction.

An anthology of more than 70 poems inspired by the horror and heroism of war, illustrated with striking scratchboard drawings. From the eleventh century B.C. to the present day, including translations from Chinese, Latin, Greek, French, Russian, and Japanese, and ranging from poignant lamentation to sardonic humor, a wide selection of voices speak about every aspect of human conflict, exploring the universal themes that have moved poets throughout history.

A collection of fairy tales from the folk literature of such countries as Romania, Japan, Scotland, Spain, and Zimbabwe.