nightingale

"In this updated retelling of Brother Grimm's 'Jorinda and Joringel' a shape-changing witch protects her privacy at all costs. When the engaged couple Jorinda and Jacob stumble into the witch's part of the forest, she takes them captive. The hateful witch changes Jorinda into a singing bird. Will her fiance save her or will the witch keep her singing bird caged forever?"--Provided by publisher.

A brightly illustrated story about how the birds got their colors and other decorations and how the nightingale got its song.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.

Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.

Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference for a jeweled mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful. It returns years later when the emperor is near death to revive him with a special magical song. At last the emperor realizes the value of a living nightingale over a mechanical one.

Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale about a nightingale that is banned from the empire by the Chinese emperor, but returns years later when the emperor is near death.

Retells the story of an emperor who, near death, is revived by the song of a nightingale he had banished years earlier in favor of a showy mechanical imitation.

The birds gather together for the monkeys to decorate them, and soon, each bird is vibrantly arrayed, but when one lost little bird arrives late, the monkeys have only brown left, until they place a drop of gold in his mouth, which causes him to have the most beautiful voice.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song. A retelling set in Northwest Africa.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.