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Scottish Folk Tales; Seven Wise Masters; Silva Gadelica; Silver Birch, Blood Moon; Singhasan Battisi; Sir Green Hat and the Wizard; Snow White, Blood Red (book) Speak, Bird, Speak Again; The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio; Śukasaptati
Maria Tatar, author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, notes that "Kate Crackernuts" belongs to the "do or die" strain of fairy tales: a heroine is given a task to perform, and, if successful, she wins a prince, but, if unsuccessful, she loses her life.
Children's books based on fairy tales (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Children's books based on folklore" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
The Funny Little Woman is a book "retold by" Arlene Mosel. Released by E. P. Dutton, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1973, and was illustrated by Blair Lent. [1] "The Old Woman who Lost her Dumplings" was the title of the original tale by Lafcadio Hearn, [2] which Mosel had adapted. [3]
Booklist, in a review of Heckedy Peg, found "The inherent drama of the story, combined with the haunting images the art provides, gives the picture book a timeless quality. "[1] and the School Library Journal wrote "This story, deep and rich with folk wisdom, is stunningly illustrated with Don Wood's luminous paintings. ..
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales is a 1985 collection of twenty-four folktales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. They encompass animal tales (including tricksters ), fairy tales , supernatural tales , and tales of the enslaved Africans (including slave narratives ).
American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year.