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Favorite Folktales from Around the World

Favorite Folktales from Around the World( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Yolen, Jane
ISBN:978-0-394-75188-7
Publication Date:Oct 1989
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $55.00
Book Description:

From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the...
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Book Details
Pages:512
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 23.368 x 3.277 cm
Book Weight:0.687 Kilograms
Author Biography
Yolen, Jane (Author)
Jane Yolen was born February 11, 1939 in New York City. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After college, she became an editor in New York City and wrote during her lunch break. She sold her first children's book, Pirates in Petticoats, at the age of 22. Since then, she has written over 300 books for children, young adults, and adults.

Her other works include the Emperor and the Kite, Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and The Devil's Arithmetic. She has won numerous awards including the Kerlan Award, the Regina Medal, the Keene State Children's Literature Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award.

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