characters in literature

Presents a collection of works celebrating the world of Middle-earth, its characters, and its author.

Provides profiles of ten fictional detectives or sleuthing teams that originated in novels, including the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, Hercule Poirot, and others, and looks at their appearances in other media.

Long after the disappearance of Snow White's stepmother, the witch trapped in her mirror manipulates a desperate peasant and a merchant's daughter to seek the magic she needs to gain her freedom, but the girls show her a power far greater.

Twelve-year-old Julie Marchen tries to protect her world from a villain who is using her naive father, Rapunzel's prince, to restore power to the fairy tale world of the Wild, during a cross-country adventure that features Sleeping Beauty, dragons, and a truly wicked Fairy Godmother.

Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie tries to save her storybook kingdom, which lives within the pages of "The Great Good Thing," when they find themselves aboard a doomed space ship, despite the interference of the jester, Pingree, who schemes to blackmail her into marrying him.

Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the character's mad scramble to reach their places whenever the book is opened, until Sylvie discovers she can enter new worlds with the Reader, and find new adventures.

Princess Sylvie and the other characters in the book entitled "The Great Good Thing" confront the perils of being uploaded onto the World Wide Web, forcing them to act out their story both in print and in cyberspace.

When world-famous artist David Harleyson disappears, his nephew pieces together the clues found on the backs of a group of portraits, which feature characters from Mother Goose, Grimm, and Aesop, to decipher where he went.