Bøger af Stanley Longman

There is something about the human spirit that takes the experience of frustration and leads us to createnew and more satisfying worlds, if only in our imagination. It is also true that fear can prompt us to create visions of being caught up in strange powers beyond our control. These fourteen tales conjure places and times when such forces are at work, sometimesas wish fulfillment dreams, others as nightmarish or mysterious transformations.

Sienna didn't know she was a princess until the day her anxious but helpful Lady-in-Waiting, Felicity Fluttertung, knocked excitedly on her door, whisking her (and her overly-sensitive teddy bear Rufus) away once a year, on her birthday, to the land of Humbertia. Once Princess Sienna's coronation is finished, she is free to explore the land, the sea and the air...and she does. Swimming with the local mermaid, soaring above the land in a hovercraft, finding the magical spots of the kingdom, meeting new friends and sneaking Rufus into royal events which otherwise adhere to the "No Bears Allowed" policy are just some of Princess Sienna's adventures.

Author and theatrician Stanley Longman has taken popular Greek myths and Biblical stories and thrown them into a centrifuge. What if Adam and Eve met Pandora as they were exiting the Garden of Eden? What would happen if Odysseus and Jonah met inside the belly of the whale? Longman, the retired head of the University of Georgia's Theatre Department and the author of Corah's Magical Excursions in the Night, has used his prodigious imagination to mix these popular stories, and, in the process, created his own enlightening version of these timeless stories.

Young Corah wakes up in the middle of the night to discover that her closet door has come to life. Is this really hapenning? Door calls to Corah, inviting her to cross the threshold and join in on a series of magical excursions in the night. Corah visits a tennis game in the clouds. She sinks under the sea in a bathysphere to witness the seahorse races. She travels to another planet, visits a crazy zoo, and joins mythological figures on their excursion up Mount Parnassus. Meet Corah and join her as she explores the universes which exist just beyond her closet door. You can bring your dog.

Author Stanley Longman has crafted eight tales about the nearly-forgotten but wildly important notion of Civility. Lower Piddlington has more than its fair share of archetypal characters: a strident Doomsayer marching the streets prophesying the End Times, a passionate couple who fights all the time, often in public, Lugubrious Louie, who walks around in a constant funk, and others. See how simple acts of kindness turned their lives around. Think about how you could do the same.