Elena Balbusso Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A Christmas Eve tradition becomes a saga of epic proportions when young Marie Stahlbaum's beloved Nutcracker defends her against the dreaded Mouse King's army. As Marie recovers after the battle, Godfather Drosselmeier relates Nutcracker's sad tale, and the compassionate girl sees the truth behind the toy-like veneer. This unabridged edition of Hoffmann's classic, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, is artfully illustrated by Roberto Innocenti and reissued for a new generation of storytellers and listeners.

While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense – and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants. An early work, but published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic genre typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, as well as a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels and, ultimately, an enchanting love story.

Quando avevo quattro anni, avevo quattro nonni, due nonni di città e due nonni di campagna... Incomincia così questo libro che parla di un nonno straordinario e di un ciliegio, dell'oca Alfonsina e di suo marito Oreste, della nonna Teodolinda e delle sue "cose" morbide; e di un bambino, che non dimentica il nonno "matto" che si arrampicava sugli alberi e che lo ha reso tante volte felice. Età di lettura: dai 9 anni.