![]() ![]() As long as the Forest stands it will be a home, a refuge and a playground to these sweet immortals, who revel undisturbed in its depths.Ĭivilization has never yet reached Burzee. Nature peopled it in the beginning with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs. Yet Burzee has its inhabitants-for all this. Coming from the sunlit meadows into its mazes it seems at first gloomy, then pleasant, and afterward filled with never-ending delights.įor hundreds of years it has flourished in all its magnificence, the silence of its inclosure unbroken save by the chirp of busy chipmunks, the growl of wild beasts and the songs of birds. The Forest of Burzee is mighty and grand and awesome to those who steal beneath its shade. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves. Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys The Great Battle Between Good and Evilġ1. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valleyħ. Table of Contents Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Inoltre, la Potter si impegnò nella salvaguardia dell'ambiente naturale dei terreni di sua proprietà, che alla sua morte lasciò in eredità al National Trust questi terreni costituiscono gran parte dell'odierna area naturale protetta del Lake District National Park. I suoi libri illustrati ebbero un grande successo, e i corrispondenti introiti, uniti all'eredità ricevuta da una zia, le consentirono di comprare prima il terreno di Hill Top Farm a Near Sawrey, un villaggio nel Lake District, e poi quello di numerose fattorie adiacenti per preservare il paesaggio collinare di quel paese. Le sue storie sono state adattate al cinema, rielaborate nella musica e nella danza la sua vita raccontata in un lungometraggio cinematografico e televisivo.La passione per la natura, per gli animali e per la pittura, in particolare ad acquerello, fu il tema conduttore della vita della Potter fin dall'infanzia, che si riflette nelle sue opere letterarie. Beatrix Potter fu ed è ancora oggi una delle più lette e amate scrittrici di letteratura per l'infanzia i suoi 24 racconti sono stati tradotti in 35 lingue e hanno venduto oltre 100 milioni di copie. Helen Beatrix Potter (Londra, 28 luglio 1866 – Near Sawrey, 22 dicembre 1943) è stata un'illustratrice, scrittrice e naturalista britannica, famosa per i suoi libri illustrati per bambini.Le sue opere celebrano la vita e la natura nella campagna inglese attraverso il racconto delle avventure di animali antropomorfizzati. The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke)Ĭhristmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick). The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express (William Dean Howells)Ĭhristmas Eve & Christmas Day (Edward Everett Hale)Ī Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Robinson Perrault)Ĭhristmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) ![]() The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen) The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) ![]() The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)Īt the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett)Ĭhristmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley)Īnne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas to you all! This festive season, we are playing the Santa, and offering you our own Christmas basket of holiday goodies: the greatest Christmas novels and magical Christmas Tales:
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