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2. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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   Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult names and a ...

3. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

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   Into the Widening World, a collection of 26 short fictional coming-of-age stories by 26 notable authors (published 1995) Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling (1997–2007) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999) Alex Rider, by Anthony Horowitz (2000–till date) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (2001)

4. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

5. The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

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   In 1968, on their Four Fairy Tales and Other Children's Stories album, the Pickwick Players performed a version of this story that is actually a version of "The King's New Clothes" from the film Hans Christian Andersen. In this version, two swindlers trick the Emperor into buying a nonexistent suit, only for a boy to reveal the truth in the end.

6. One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads - Wikipedia

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   One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads is a children's book written by Johnny Valentine and Melody Sarecky. The intended audience is elementary school children, and it discusses all kinds of different fathers, including having two dads. Its title is a play on the title of an older Dr. Seuss children's book, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.

7. Drama (film and television) - Wikipedia

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   Drama (film and television) Gone with the Wind is a popular romance drama. In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. [1] The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or ...

8. Category:Children's short stories - Wikipedia

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   S. Silver Hoof. Sinyushka's Well. Smoke in the Forest. Somebody Else's Prince. The Son of Sobek. The Staff of Serapis. The Stone Flower. Struwwelpeter.

9. Children on Their Birthdays (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Synopsis. The story is set in rural Alabama, where Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, a precocious 10-year-old girl, moves to town with her mother. The young girl is pretty and attracts the positive attention of the town boys, and the negative attentions of the town girls. The narrator's younger cousin Billy-Bob and his best friend Preacher fight for Miss ...