Nana and the Magic Balloon

Nana and the Magic Balloon

Author: Donna Hartman

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13:

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Nana and her granddaughter have an exciting adventure flying high in the sky with a magic balloon. They fly over Navy ships in the harbor, the animals in the zoo, all the way to the ocean before returning to Nana’s backyard.


Nana and the Magic Balloon

Nana and the Magic Balloon

Author: Donna Hartman

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing

Published: 2024-08-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Nana and her granddaughter have an exciting adventure flying high in the sky with a magic balloon. They fly over Navy ships in the harbor, the animals in the zoo, all the way to the ocean before returning to Nana's backyard.


The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition

The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition

Author: Susan Veness

Publisher: Adams Media

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1507212569

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The latest edition to the successful Hidden Magic series features updated information on the latest attractions at Walt Disney World, including Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway! Whether it’s your first or fiftieth visit to Walt Disney World, you’ll be surprised at how much you can miss during your trip. But with this guide to Disney’s hidden treasures you’ll learn: -You can search for more than the usual hidden Mickey. There are other beloved characters like Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse hidden around the parks. -The book Belle reads in Beauty and the Beast is a real book...and you can find out what it is by heading to Maurice’s cottage. -Imagineers hide symbols of themselves around the park to “sign” their work. Including all-new information on Toy Story Land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World, 3rd Edition will inspire you to relive the magic year after year!


Audrika's Magic

Audrika's Magic

Author: R.S. Everburg

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-06-13

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1462855970

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With her first published book the author is letting us in on a secret. All around the edges of the world of everyday here and now, lie magical doors, teasing, beckoning, daring us to summon the courage to pry them open wide enough to squeeze through. She knows what she’s talking about. She’s found a lot of these doors through the years, sometimes in the most unexpected places. Mostly she’s taken up the challenge to squeeze through, and has never once been sorry that she did. Children know how to do this, but time and the greedy demands of the world of everyday here and now, can be robbers and poachers. So often we’re told that we must give up the search for those doors to apply ourselves to more practical things, that peeking beyond the edges of the everyday world is a fun but frivolous part of childhood, and must eventually be laid aside. That brings us back round to Audrika‘s story. She’s a normal ten year old, with a normal ten year old’s problems. Already she’s come perilously close to slamming the door shut on her own magic forever, but a summer full of adventure and yes, dare we say it, magic, will change all that. She’ll find the courage to step through a door tucked away in a remote corner of an enchanted greenhouse. What she finds on the other side will change her life forever. True, this is a story about the possibilities that lie on the other side of an enchanted door, but it is more. It is a nudge that worries and warns, “Don’t forget the magic. Hang on. Hold on. If you are courageous enough you don‘t ever have to let go. There is no expiration date on the magic that fills our insides with soda pop bubbles and sends fireworks up into a velvet night sky.” This book is a gift to every child struggling to hold on to their special magic. Perhaps it is also a gift to every adult who has misplaced their own, and longs for its return.


Nanaville

Nanaville

Author: Anna Quindlen

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0812985915

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and #1 bestselling author “This tender book should be required reading for grandparents everywhere.”—Booklist (starred review) “I am changing his diaper, he is kicking and complaining, his exhausted father has gone to the kitchen for a glass of water, his exhausted mother is prone on the couch. He weighs little more than a large sack of flour and yet he has laid waste to the living room: swaddles on the chair, a nursing pillow on the sofa, a car seat, a stroller. No one cares about order, he is our order, we revolve around him. And as I try to get in the creases of his thighs with a wipe, I look at his, let’s be honest, largely formless face and unfocused eyes and fall in love with him. Look at him and think, well, that’s taken care of, I will do anything for you as long as we both shall live, world without end, amen.” Before blogs even existed, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of family, motherhood, and modern life, in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step and going full nana in the pages of this lively, beautiful, and moving book about being a grandmother. Quindlen offers thoughtful and telling observations about her new role, no longer mother and decision-maker but secondary character and support to the parents of her grandson. She writes, “Where I once led, I have to learn to follow.” Eventually a close friend provides words to live by: “Did they ask you?” Candid, funny, frank, and illuminating, this is the perfect gift for new parents and grandparents. With the same insights Quindlen brought to motherhood in Living Out Loud and to growing older in Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, this new nana uses her own experiences to illuminate those of many others.


An Adventure Safari for Nana's Gnomes

An Adventure Safari for Nana's Gnomes

Author: Wendy Pearce

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-04-25

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1493137107

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Nanas gnomes have already experienced exploring beyond their comfort zone as a group and enjoyed it. This story tells about some surprise visitors and then how Maria and Samuel, the older and wiser ones, have arranged a very big surprise for the gnomes. They cannot wait to find out what it is. Rose, the garden fairy, really has to work hard with her magic and others in the garden are called upon to help. This is one adventure the gnomes will not forget in a hurry!


Simona and Her Magic Racket

Simona and Her Magic Racket

Author: Nana Pitz

Publisher: Elefant Online

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 6068782158

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This is a wonderful fairy tale whose main character Simona, the blue-eyed blonde girl, travels with her friends, Big Moustache and Iliuta the bunny, along the Cuties’ Kingdom, struggles against all the Nasties and, of course, wins on the tennis field and saves the whole world as such. Such a tale hasn’t ever been written since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Equator Publishers)


The Three Thieves and the Magic Tears

The Three Thieves and the Magic Tears

Author: Sheila Silverman Taube

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 1491869135

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Thoroughly realized and lovingly told, THE THREE THIEVES AND THE MAGIC TEARS presents a robustly imagined world. In addition to this world building, readers will enjoy well developed characters and a new twist on the popular quest narrative. BlueInk Review Taubes fanciful, page-turning tale will charm all. She has created quite a world whimsical enough for kids but evolved enough to keep adults engaged. The theme of facing ones fears, as seen here, is universal. Taube deals with this oft- considered idea in a way thats not at all hokey: sometimes things are scary, and people have to learn to cope in their own ways. A fun, fancy-free look at facing ones fears and aiming for forgiveness. Kirkus Reviews Taube does a splendid job describing characters and events, her use of adjectives paints strong pictures for children. The varied dialogue of the thieves, Nana Ida, and each character in the four lands speaks volumes about their motivations and traits. Based on the last page, it seems Taube will eventually be writing a sequel (she should). Foreword Clarion Reviews Can a childrens book be about the stupidity of greed, cowardice, courage, valor, self-sacrifice, personal redemption and the value of the earth and its elements? THE THREE THIEVES AND THE MAGIC TEARS is. Our three thieves begin a journey to kidnap a magical little old woman with the remarkable gift of her tears falling as diamonds. To find her they are led to the four corners of the dark forest. They meet frightening circumstances in each land, beginning with a giant Whitewolf and four starving pups in the Land of the North. They must prevail or become food for the wolves. In the Land of the East they are met by fairies, elves and people who walk on air to avoid bubbling pools of scalding water. They learn about wind that is used to talk with other villages, the wind that aids them to climb a mountain, and a hurricane that once again almost destroys them. In the Land of the South they come perilously close to dying of thirst because of their ignorance of the desert. They meet the people of the south called Firewalkers and a wisewoman with a red hot finger of truth. In the Land of the West they finally find a watery, diamond strewn pathway that will lead them to the magic old woman Their transformation begins when they meet Nana Ida who sends them on a journey of redemption where each of them must face the things that terrifies them the most. They must pass the grotesque Guardians of the Pool of Transformation. Each Guardian forces them to face their personal nightmares. How they survive brings the climax of the story, but not necessarily the end of the tale.


The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

Author: Alex Bell

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 057138224X

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Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the most perilous places and is full of spiky dangers. Most participants seek out unicorns and dragons to help them on their conquest. But not Eli. He embarks on this journey with his trusted pet and friend, Humphrey, his moon tortoise. Moon tortoises aren't suited to racing and Eli is no natural adventurer. But he soon finds himself in an unlikely partnership with Raven, a rule-breaker and skilled archer, and her ice hare - one of the fastest animals in the world. If the two children put aside their differences and work together, they might just reach the finish line!


Parables of Love from Mom

Parables of Love from Mom

Author: Chamisa Loraine Howard

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2022-06-10

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1639037233

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When my children were small and my husband in college, I continued to recreate the stories my parents told me as a child about animals having personalities and their teaching abilities. I used the stories to teach my children moral principles through fables. They knew if they went to bed by 8:00 p.m., they would get another chapter of some favorite pretend stories, spun out night after night, chapter by chapter. Many of these stories led to daytime adventures as the kids lifted up flat rocks in search of Harvey Rabbit's magic hole with the candy factory. They made horn toads into pets and few a mouse in box fitted with a running wheel. In 1989, I decided to write down some of those favorite stories to give my now grown children as a Christmas present. My artist sister illustrated these stories for me. The compilation of stories has been sitting in my cedar chest for 30 years, until recently, when I had them re-printed for my now growing family of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. God bless each and every child out there, that they may come to know in their head and heart that we are all God's angels placed here on earth with extraordinary abilities in order to love and bless each other's lives.