{"title":"swans","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"e-b-white-box-set-charlottes-web-stuart-little-the-trumpet-of-the-swan","title":"E.B. White Box Set: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis three-volume box set contains paperback editions of White's most beloved classics, \u003cem\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Trumpet of the Swan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"p\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome Pig. Humble. 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Today's youngsters will be equally moved by the hapless ugly duckling, who, ridiculed and rejected by all, suffers terrible hardships. And they will celebrate along with him when he finally emerges triumphant as the most beautiful swan of all! Bernadette Watts's detailed illustrations chronicle the bittersweet story with charm and poignancy. Perfect for institutional, trade and gift accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHans Christian Andersen\u003c\/strong\u003e was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark. A prolific writer, Andersen is best known for his fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages. By the time he died in Copenhagen in 1875, his work was known all over the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bernadette Watts\" href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/bernadette-watts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernadette Watts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, known throughout Europe simply as Bernadette, has illustrated many dozens of folk- and fairy tales. Born in England, she loved to draw from childhood. She studied at the Maidstone Art School in Kent, UK, for a time under the tutelage of Brian Wildsmith. Bernadette's many beautiful books include The Snow Queen and The Bremen Town Musicians. Bernadette finds her inspiration in nature. Today she lives and works in Kent. She has been illustrating for NorthSouth Books and NordSüd Verlag since the beginning of her career fifty years ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTarget Age: 4-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorthsouth Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePub Date: January 01, 2008\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9780735821460\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0.12\" H x 11.28\" L x 8.46\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e32 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37824583467194,"sku":"9780735821460","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/products\/TheUglyDuckling.jpg?v=1668987880"},{"product_id":"hans-christian-andersen-the-complete-fairy-tales-and-stories-translated-from-the-danish-by-erik-christian-haugaard","title":"Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories (translated by Erik Christian Haugaard)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen--one of the immortals of world literature--not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes, and The Nightingale, are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHans Christian Andersen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1805--75) was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker, who nonetheless was a great reader, made a toy-theatre for his son and taught him to notice every natural wonder as they walked in the woods together on Sundays. His father died when he was eleven, and it wasn't until six years later that, with the help of a patron, he finally went to a state secondary school attended by much younger children. There he suffered at the hands of a cruel headmaster, but he acquired an education and was determined to be a writer. He published his first novel and his first fairy tales in 1835; thereafter he wrote over 150 more of these stories which have become classics in many languages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA lonely man who never married, he was also an anxious man; he loved travelling, but would carry a coil of rope with him in case of fire in his hotel. Although he originally addressed his fairy tales to children (and some would maintain he had a streak of childhood in his nature) he insisted they were 'for all ages', and the gentleness and humor that are their characteristics are recognized by everyone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnchor Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePub Date: August 09, 1983\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2.0\" H x 9.1\" L x 6.0\" W \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1120 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37842672451770,"sku":"9780385189514","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/products\/TheCompleteFairyTalesandStories_translatedbyErikChristian.jpg?v=1676836094"},{"product_id":"at-blackwater-pond-mary-oliver-reads-mary-oliver","title":"At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the astonishing aspects of Oliver's work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language that has made her one of our very best poets. --Stephen Dobyns, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/collections\/mary-oliver\" title=\"Mary Oliver\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMary Oliver\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Blackwater Pond,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this beautifully produced compact disc, Mary Oliver has recorded forty of her favorite poems, nearly spanning the length of her career, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDream Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e through her newest volume, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems, Volume Two.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The package is shrink-wrapped so that the elegant clothbound audiobook can takes its place on the poetry shelf. It also includes a fifteen-page booklet with an original essay, Performance Note, photos of the author at Blackwater Pond, and a full listing of the poems and their sources.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMuch of the work of the poet is a mystery, but the last labor is clear; it is the deliverance of the poem. Often this happens through a manuscript or a book, but it can occur in a vocal way also. Has everyone at some time looked up the original meaning of performance? It means, says Webster, 'to finish, to complete.' The poem is meant to be given away, best of all by the spoken presentation of it; then the work is complete. Which makes performance sound, does it not, like part of the life-work of the poem, which I think it is. As if the poem itself had an independent life, or the endless possibility of its own life, in minds other than the poet's, which I think it has.--Mary Oliver, from Performance Note, an original essay first published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt Blackwater Pond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Lark Ascending 1:03\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart One:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Some Herons 1:32\u003cbr\u003e3 Wild Geese 1:13\u003cbr\u003e4 Beans 1:15\u003cbr\u003e5 The Swan 1:29\u003cbr\u003e6 Bone 1:55\u003cbr\u003e7 Hermit Crab 1:20\u003cbr\u003e8 Goldenrod 1:35 e\u003cbr\u003e9 I Looked Up 0:52\u003cbr\u003e10 The Buddha's Last Instruction 1:42\u003cbr\u003e11 The Kingfisher 1:25\u003cbr\u003e12 Bear 1:16\u003cbr\u003e13 Some Things, Say the Wise Ones 1:11\u003cbr\u003e14 Her Grave 3:15\u003cbr\u003e15 Mindful 1:11\u003cbr\u003e16 Lonely, White Fields 1:33\u003cbr\u003e17 Where Does the Temple Begin 1:32\u003cbr\u003e18 Goldfinches 1:08\u003cbr\u003e19 Song of the Builders 0:43\u003cbr\u003e20 Peonies 1:41\u003cbr\u003e21 Five a.m. in the Pinewoods 1:30\u003cbr\u003e22 The Summer Day 1:29\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMusic:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23 The Lark Ascending 1:36\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePart Two:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e24 The Sun 1:16\u003cbr\u003e25 The Snow Cricket 1:40\u003cbr\u003e26 Whelks 1:32\u003cbr\u003e27 Hum 1:50\u003cbr\u003e28 White Flowers 1:21\u003cbr\u003e29 Rice 0:57\u003cbr\u003e30 Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard 1:49\u003cbr\u003e31 Maybe 1:26\u003cbr\u003e32 When Death Comes 1:49\u003cbr\u003e33 Lingering in Happiness 0:59\u003cbr\u003e34 The Ponds 1:33\u003cbr\u003e35 Roses, Late Summer 1:46\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003eBeacon Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003ePub Date: April 1, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e0.52\" H x 5.44\" L x 5.9\" W\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003ecompact disk\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37882471252154,"sku":"9780807007006","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/products\/AtBlackwaterPond.jpg?v=1675304769"},{"product_id":"on-wings-of-song-poems-about-birds-everymans-library","title":"On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Chü-i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEXCERPT:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Seagulls\"\u003cbr\u003eby John Updike\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gull, up close,\u003cbr\u003elooks surprisingly stuffed.\u003cbr\u003eHis fluffy chest seems filled\u003cbr\u003ewith an inexpensive taxidermist's material\u003cbr\u003erather lumpily inserted. The legs,\u003cbr\u003eunbent, are childish crayon strokes--\u003cbr\u003etoo simple to be workable.\u003cbr\u003eAnd even the feather-markings,\u003cbr\u003ewhose intricate symmetry is the usual glory of birds,\u003cbr\u003eare in the gull slovenly,\u003cbr\u003eas if God makes them too many\u003cbr\u003eto make them very well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre they intelligent?\u003cbr\u003eWe imagine so, because they are ugly.\u003cbr\u003eThe sardonic one-eyed profile, slightly cross,\u003cbr\u003ethe narrow, ectomorphic head, badly combed,\u003cbr\u003ethe wide and nervous and well-muscled rump\u003cbr\u003eall suggest deskwork: shipping rates\u003cbr\u003eby day, Schopenhauer\u003cbr\u003eby night, and endless coffee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt that hour on the beach\u003cbr\u003ewhen the flies begin biting in the renewed coolness\u003cbr\u003eand the backsliding skin of the after-surf\u003cbr\u003ereflects a pink shimmer before being blotted,\u003cbr\u003ethe gulls stand around in the dimpled sand\u003cbr\u003elike those melancholy European crowds\u003cbr\u003ethat gather in cobbled public squares in the wake\u003cbr\u003eof assassinations and invasions,\u003cbr\u003eheads cocked to hear the latest radio reports.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is also this hour when plump young couples\u003cbr\u003ewalk down to the water, bumping together,\u003cbr\u003eand stand thigh-deep in the rhythmic glass.\u003cbr\u003eThen they walk back toward the car,\u003cbr\u003etugging as if at a secret between them\u003cbr\u003ebut which neither quite knows--\u003cbr\u003ewalk capricious paths through the scattering gulls,\u003cbr\u003eas in some mythologies\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful gods stroll unconcerned\u003cbr\u003eamong our mortal apprehensions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Updike on \"Seagulls\":\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMy distinct memory is that I was pondering gulls while lying on Crane Beach in Ipswich when the first stanza came over me in a spasm of inspiration. Penless and paperless, I ran to the site of a recent beach fire and wrote in charcoal on a large piece of unburned driftwood. Then I cumbersomely carried my improvised tablet home. It must have been late in the beach season, and my final stanzas slow to ripen, for the poem's completion is dated early December.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\"Excellent. . . . [Disch's] greatest work-a writer's writer's success.\" --\"The Village Voice\u003cbr\u003e\"A robust writer . . . a virtuoso.\" --\"The \"New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Startlingly original. . . . A cause for jubilation.\" --Harlan Ellison\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb book.\" \"--Magazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most remarkably talented writers around.\" --\"The Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\" Big, solid and immensely enjoyable.\" --David Pringle, \"Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJ. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: \u003cb\u003eScenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eHazmat\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has also written two books of essays: \u003cb\u003eWhite Paper\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eTwenty Questions\u003c\/b\u003e. He has edited many other books, including \u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eHorace: The Odes\u003c\/b\u003e. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. 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