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In the emerging new collaborative economic order, innovation is achieved by an integrated process of collaboration between policymakers, business and society. Often, the focus for this collaboration is at a regional level. Creating Collaborative Advantage examines the trends in innovation policy that...

Originally published in 1844 in one of C. A. Reitzel's New Fairy Tales collections, The Fir Tree is a moralistic tale that reveals the importance of appreciating what you have. In it, a young fir tree is so fixated on growing up that he does not value his life in the forest. But when Christmas comes,...

Illustrazioni di Ilaria Mattia. La giovane mano di Ilaria Mattia rappresenta alcune delle più famose fiabe di Andersen mostrando con immagini fresche e variopinte le magiche finzioni di storie ancora oggi tra le più apprezzate. Dalle tonalità sottomarine della Sirenetta alle sfumature più malinconiche...

Collection of Children's Books A Little Princess The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Peter Pan The Wind in the Willows The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Andersen's Fairy Tales The Jungle Book Grimms' Fairy Tales Treasure Island The Prince...

In The Shoes of Fortune a series of people who are dissatisfied with their lives, put on a pair of magic shoes that grants them the wishes. A civil servant who idealizes the middle ages, experiences all its inconveniences; a watchman lives the lonely life of his superior and endures a terrifying visit...

Le vilain petit canard : Comme il faisait bon dans la campagne ! C'était l'été. Les blés étaient dorés, l'avoine verte, les foins coupés embaumaient, ramassés en tas dans les prairies, et une cigogne marchait sur ses jambes rouges, si fines et si longues et claquait du bec en égyptien...

In this bleak fairytale, a kind and good-natured learned man on vacation sends his shadow to investigate a balcony across the street. When his shadow never returns, he notices that he has grown a new one and figures all is well.  However, five years later, he meets his original shadow, and it is...

In this parable about the transience of earthly things, a mysterious bell is heard by the inhabitants of a village. They search the forest but are unable to find the source. When a prince and a child eventually discover it, they realize that it is as mysterious and old as nature itself.

This ebook is a fabulous compilation of Andersen’s best fairy tales translated by Susannah Mary Paull, such as: The Angel, The Darning-Needle, The Elfin Hill, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Flying Trunk, The Jumper, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Princess and the...

El cuento narra la historia de una niña tan pobre que ni siquiera podía comprar zapatos, y por eso andaba siempre descalza. Su madre murió y una anciana, apiadándose de ella, la tomó a su cargo. Y así llegó el día en el que debía hacer la confirmación y le compró unas zapatillas rojas de las que se había encaprichado. Eran muy bonitas, pero guardaban una sorpresa.

Here you will find more than 1500 fairy tales, such as "Aladdin", "Sinbad the Sailor", "The Ugly Ducking", "Little Tin Soldier", "The Little Match Girl", "Blue Beard", "Beauty and the Beast", "Puss in Boots", "The...

The story that was the inspiration for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and more recently, Frozen by Disney is re-designed in celebration of 50 years of working with Bernadette Watts—one of Europe's most recognized and beloved fairy-tale artists, known in Europe simply as Bernadette....

Imagine a tiny little girl, no bigger than the size of a thumb! Now imagine how strange and scary the world must seem to her. Thumbelina is snatched from her home by a toad, who wished to marry her off to his son. But this is not the end of her misfortune; upon her adventures she meets beetles, a...

Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface...