Richard Doyle Libros

Poetry to delight anyone who still believes in magic."When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."--J. M. Barrie, Scottish, 1860-1937, from Peter PanThe art of Englishman Richard Doyle offers lush glimpses into the world of the wee folk. Doyle's fairies troop through meadows, twirl in the moonlight, and enlist birds and bugs in games and mischief. His whimsical illustrations, chosen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, are paired with poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stevie Smith, and Langston Hughes, among others.Fairy sweethearts among the roses illustrate Wilder's "The Fairies in the Sunshine," elf babies in a snail race match Robert Graves's "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child," and a fairy queen carried by butterflies reimagines Shakespeare's popular "Queen Mab" soliloquy. A magical treasury that will enchant readers of all ages.

Little gem of Victorian literature, written in 1841 and published in 1889, tells a tale of the two Black Brothers who spite the wind and the King of the Golden River — and then for their misdeeds, are turned into stone. Includes 22 captivating illustrations.

Jack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days - that he is lucky to be alive. His face is so salt ravaged he barely recognises himself. He has lost nearly all his memory. All he can remember is his name. And that is when the nightmare begins. For Jack Meade is the name of the President Elect of the United States. In Washington an exact double of Meade is preparing to take the Oath of Office, a man who thought he had killed Jack, a man who has taken his wife and fooled everyone in the country including Jack's closest associates. Meade realises he has only one to escape from the hospital, go to Washington and convince his wife and colleagues that he is the President. But the Usurper is now surrounded by the might of the Secret Service and America's armed forces. He has already tried to kill Jack once. Now with all the power of the Presidency behind him, he will try to silence forever the one man who knows about the deception that has tricked the world.

Auf der Kanareninsel La Palma geschieht das Unfassbare: Ohne Vorwarnung bricht der Vulkan der Insel aus. Das Urlaubsparadies wird zu einer Katastrophenzone.Tausende Kilometer entfernt bereitet sich die Hafenstadt Goodwill, Maine, auf ihralljährliches Sommerfest vor. Doch die Idylle trügt. Der Vulkanausbruch hat gigantische Flutwellen ausgelöst, die auf die amerikanische Ostküste zurasen. Als erste riesige Wellen Goodwill erreichen, die Fischerflotte in Gefahr bringen undLeichen an Land gespült werden, bricht Panik aus.Auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks beginnt der Kampf ums Überleben ...