New Releases by Lise Lunge-Larsen

A collection of seven Norwegian folktales from various historical and international sources, all featuring trolls and showing how even small children can trick them. Includes an introduction explaining what trolls are and how they came to be. Full color. 11 x 8 1/2.

Gigantesques, grotesques et dotés d''une force surhumaine : voici les trolls. Figures mythiques du folklore nordique, ces géants donnent du fil à retordre à ceux qui ont le malheur de se mettre en travers de leur route. Créatures aux diverses apparences, les trolls sont traîtres et fourbes. L''ingéniosité et le courage sont les qualités essentielles pour déjouer leur malice. Face à eux, les héros de ces contes sauront-ils être suffisamment rusés ?

Discusses words that come from ancient stories of the Greeks.

During the long, arduous voyage of the ark, Noah discovers that the sheep''s wool has become matted into a strange material, for which he finds a practical use once the ark has come to rest atop a mountain.

Never pick a lady slipper. If any part is picked, the entire flower dies. And it grows there, in the northern woods, to mark the courage and strength of a small girl who lived long ago—a girl who saved all of her people from a terrible disease by listening carefully to the whispering snow, the rumbling ice, and the dancing northern lights.

Selkies, fairies, gnomes, hill folk, river sprites--do you believe in them? Perhaps among the flowers, beside a mountain, or near deep waters you’ve caught a glimpse, once or twice, of what you thought might be the silvery shadow of a dwarf, or a hint of a fairy’s wing, or the tail of the water horse. Or was it just the odd light of dusk or dawn playing tricks? As Lise Lunge-Larsen’s magical, timeless stories reveal and Beth Krommes’s enchanting scratchboard illustrations capture, the hidden folk are there, all right: you just have to know where--and how--to look.

Tells how the infant Prince Hakon is rescued by men fiercely loyal to his dead father, who ski across the rugged mountains in blizzard conditions to save him from his enemies, the Baglers.

As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore''s most fascinating and varied creatures. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. They can carry their heads under their arms or hide their hearts inside wells. They can walk across oceans and fly over mountains. Trees and shrubs may grow from their heads, and their noses can be long enough to stir soup. There are troll hags, troll daughters, and elderly, shrunken trolls. Old or young, they are quarrelsome, ugly, and boastful, and they love to trick princesses and children. To defeat them, children must rely on the strengths of their humanity-persistence, kindness, pluck, and willingness to heed good advice