Favorite folktales from around the world
(Book)
Contributors:
Yolen, Jane, editor,
Published:
New York : Pantheon Books, [1986].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xiii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Lexile measure:
980L
Rating:
980L
Status:
Description
This collection of folktales drawn from over forty cultures and traditions includes classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, as well as lesser-known stories.
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North Stonington/Wheeler Children's Nonfiction
J398.2 FAVORITE (PBK) (JUL 13)
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0394543823, 9780394543826, 9780394751887, 0394751884, 1415543682, 0329067486, 9780329067489, 9781415543689
Lexile measure:
980
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-498).
Description
This collection of folktales drawn from over forty cultures and traditions includes classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, as well as lesser-known stories.
Target Audience
980L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Reading Counts RC,9-12,7.1,39.0,28006.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Yolen, J. (1986). Favorite folktales from around the world. First edition. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Yolen, Jane. 1986. Favorite Folktales From Around the World. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Yolen, Jane, Favorite Folktales From Around the World. Pantheon Books, 1986.
MLA Citation (style guide)Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales From Around the World. First edition. Pantheon Books, 1986.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Favorite folktales from around the world / |c edited by Jane Yolen. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books, |c [1986] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1986 | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 498 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-498). | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Telling tales. |t Man who had no story |g (Ireland) ; |t How Spider obtained the Sky God's stories |g (Africa) ; |t Helping to lie |g (Germany) ; |t Ash lad who made the princess say "You're a liar!" |g (Norway) ; |t Parson and the sexton |g (Norway) ; |t Tall tales |g (Burma) ; |t Catherine, sly country lass |g (Italy) ; |t Wise little girl |g (Russia) ; |t Clever answers |g (Russia) ; |t Dispute in sign language |g (Israel) ; |t Leopard, goat, and yam |g (Africa) ; |t Endless story |g (Japan) -- |g The very young and the very old. |t Glooscap and the baby |g (American Indian) ; |t Brewery of eggshells |g (Ireland) ; |t Father of eighteen elves |g (Iceland) ; |t Fly |g (Vietnam) ; |t Two pickpockets |g (England) ; |t Seventh father of the house |g (Norway) ; |t King's favorite |g (China) ; |t Wagging my tail in the mud |g (China) ; |t When one man has two wives |g (Syria) ; |t Old man and his grandson |g (Germany) ; |t Half a blanket |g (Ireland) -- |g True loves and false. |t How men and women got together |g (American Indian) ; |t Little old woman with five cows |g (Siberia) ; |t Prayer that was answered |g (Tibet) ; |t Merchant's daughter and the slanderer |g (Russia) ; |t What happened to Hadji |g (Turkey) ; |t Mr. Fox |g (England) ; |t Waiting maid's parrot |g (China) ; |t White cat |g (France) ; |t Sedna |g (Eskimo) ; |t Urashima the fisherman |g (Japan) ; |t Spirit of the Van |g (Wales) ; |t Toad-bridegroom |g (Korea) ; |t Taken |g (Ireland) ; |t Girl at the shieling |g (Iceland) ; |t Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden |g (American Indian) -- |g Tricksters, rogues, and cheats. |t Tyll Ulenspiegel's merry prank |g (Germany) ; |t Hodja and the cauldron |g (Turkey) ; |t Being greedy chokes Anansi |g (Jamaica) ; |t Quevedo and the king |g (Mexico) ; |t Why the hare runs away |g (Africa) ; |t Coyote fights a lump of pitch |g (American Indian) ; |t Crack and crook |g (Italy) ; |t Master thief |g (Germany) ; |t Peik |g (Norway) ; |t Monkey and the crocodile |g (India) ; |t Race between Toad and Donkey |g (Jamaica) ; |t King's son goes bear hunting |g (Finland) ; |t John Brodison and the policeman |g (Ireland) ; |t Rabbi and the inquisitor |g (Jewish) ; |t Ugly son |g (Japan) ; |t Dividing the goose |g (Russia) ; |t Men who wouldn't stay dead |g (France) ; |t Story of Campriano |g (Italy) -- |g The fool : numbskulls and noodleheads. |t Three sillies |g (England) ; |t Nasr-ed-Din Hodja in the pulpit |g (Turkey) ; |t Lazy Jack |g (England) ; |t Chelm justice |g (Jewish) ; |t Those stubborn souls, the Biellese |g (Italy) ; |t Drovers who lost their feet |g (Mexico) ; |t Old man and woman who switched jobs |g (Sweden) ; |t Two old women's bet |g (United States) ; |t Stroke of luck |g (Hungary) ; |t Sausage |g (Sweden) ; |t Nail soup |g (Sweden) ; |t Old dry Frye |g (United States) ; |t "Bye-bye" |g (Haiti) ; |t Barn is burning |g (Afro-American) -- |g Heroes : likely and unlikely. |t Birth of Finn MacCumhail |g (Ireland) ; |t Li Chi slays the serpent |g (China) ; |t Devil with the three golden hairs |g (Germany) ; |t Longwitton dragon |g (England) ; |t Orphan boy and the elk dog |g (American Indian) ; |t Molly Whuppie |g (England) ; |t Beginning of the Narran Lake |g (Australian Aboriginal) ; |t Flying head |g (American Indian) ; |t Story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was |g (Germany) -- |g Wonder tales, tall tales, and brag. |t Talk |g (Africa) ; |t King of Ireland's son |g (Ireland) ; |t Goose girl |g (Germany) ; |t Princess on the glass hill |g (Norway) ; |t Promises of the three sisters |g (Egypt) ; |t Magic mirror of Rabbi Adam |g (Jewish) ; |t Old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle |g (England) ; |t Magic pear tree |g (China) ; |t Faithful John |g (Germany) ; |t Found hound-dog stories |g (Ireland and United States) -- |g Shape shifters. |t Doctor and his pupil |g (France) ; |t Swan-maiden |g (Sweden) ; |t Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka |g (Russia) ; |t Blacksmith's wife of Yarrowfoot |g (Scotland) ; |t Seal's skin |g (Iceland) ; |t Wounded seal |g (Scotland) ; |t Cat-woman |g (France) ; |t Serpent-woman |g (Spain) ; |t Snake's lover |g (Peru) -- |g Not quite human. |t Well-baked man |g (American Indian) ; |t Finn messenger |g (Norway) ; |t Vasilisa the beautiful |g (Russia) ; |t Bridge and the Lurikeen |g (Ireland) ; |t Two hunchbacks |g (Italy) ; |t Then the merman laughed |g (Iceland) ; |t Pergrin and the mermaid |g (Wales) ; |t Ash lad who had an eating match with the troll |g (Norway) ; |t How mosquitoes came to be |g (American Indian) ; |t Departure of the giants |g (Africa) -- |g Fooling the devil. |t Peasant and the Devil |g Germany ; |t Wicked John and the Devil |g (United States) ; |t Bad wife |g (Russia) ; |t Katcha and the Devil |g (Czechoslovakia) ; |t Lawyer and the Devil |g (Ireland) ; |t Coals on the Devil's hearth |g (Ireland) ; |t Devil's hide |g (Finland) ; |t How El Bizarrón fooled the devil |g (Cuba) ; |t Bearskin |g (Germany) ; |t Lad and the devil |g (Norway) ; |t Wiley and the hairy man |g (United States) -- |g The getting of wisdom. |t Truth and falsehood |g (Greece) ; |t Getting common sense |g (Jamaica) ; |t Rich man, poor man |g (Africa) ; |t Lost horse |g (China) ; |t It could always be worse |g (Jewish) ; |t His just reward |g (Sweden) ; |t Djuha's sleeve |g (Syria) ; |t King Mátyás and his scholars |g (Hungary) ; |t Missing axe |r (China) ; |t What melody is the sweetest? |g (Afghanistan) ; |t Peddler of Swaffham |g (England) ; |t Beduin's gazelle |g (Saudi Arabia) ; |t Happy man's shirt |g (Italy) -- |g Ghosts and revenants. |t Orpheus and Euridice |g (Greece) ; |t Spirit-wife |g (American Indian) ; |t One night in paradise |g (Italy) ; |t Pretty girl in the road |r (United States) ; |t Dream house |g (Ireland) ; |t Peasant and the fiend |g (Estonia) ; |t Tinker and the ghost |g (Spain) ; |t Hold him, Tabb |g (Afro-American) ; |t Drinking companions |g (Cina) ; |t Ostler and the grave robbers |g (Scotland) -- |g Death and the world's end. |t Duartion of life |g (Germany) ; |t Woman chooses death |g (American Indian) ; |t Jump into my sack |g (Italy) ; |t Youth without age and life without death |g (Turkey) ; |t Goha on the deathbed |g (Egypt) ; |t Death of a miser |g (Russia) ; |t Godfather Death |g (Germany) ; |t Hungry peasant, God, and death |g (Mexico) ; |t Word the Devil made up |g (Afro-American) ; |t Paddock in heaven |g (England) ; |t How a man found his wife in the Land of the Dead |g (Papua) ; |t End of the world |g (American Indian). |
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