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by Marilee Heyer  Publisher Comments Heyer retells an engrossing Chinese folktale about an old woman who weaves exquisite brocades. Full-color illustrations.... (read more)  List Price $6.99 Your price $2.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by William J Faulkner Synopsis Presents more than 20 Afro-American folktales featuring the escapades of Brer Rabbit and more than 10 tales describing the lives of Afro-American slaves.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kevin Crossley-Holland Publisher Comments Entertaining and sometimes horrifying legends of gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and giants survive from pagan Scandinavia, even though the Norsemen were unable to write them down. Odin and Thor, Freyja and Loki, Sigurd the Volsung... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cyril Birch Publisher Comments This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. Engrossing folk tales about ghosts and rainmakers, poor students and... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Pyle Publisher Comments Reprint of the original edition, the finest modern version of the English outlaw's merry adventures. Includes 23 full-page illustrations.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Baba Wague Diakite Publisher Comments Donso, a West African hunterman, learns the importance of living in harmony with nature and the necessity of placing humans among, not above, all other living things.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Robbins 
Publisher Comments 'The Russian folktale about an old woman\'s endless search for the Christ child.'... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthea Harvey Publisher Comments Li Ming looks so proud guarding his one pomegranate tree that people laughingly call him “King Pom.” But when he catches a big red fox stealing a pomegranate, the fox makes a deal with him — “Get me out of here and I’ll make... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Davis Publisher Comments In this storyteller's version of the familiar "Three Little Pigs" motif, the villain is, naturally, a fox--the Appalachian red fox, who any local hunter will tell you is a worthy opponent-in the sport of trapping and hunting, and an able foe of many a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $0.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adele Richardson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.93 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Hodges Publisher Comments Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcia Brown Publisher Comments As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ed Young
Publisher Comments Award-winning artist Ed Young illustrates, with characteristic flair and energy, the ancient Chinese version of the favorite fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Young's vibrant, yet delicate, pastels and watercolors add drama to the deftly translated... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia Hamilton Publisher Comments The title story in Virginia Hamilton's prize-winning black American folktale collection is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. Full color.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Martin Bowler Publisher Comments - In the tradition of Rudyard Kipling- Warm, colorful illustrations bring the jungle to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Lancely Green Publisher Comments Retold out of the old romances, this collection of Arthurian tales endeavors to make each adventure--"The Quest for the Round Table", "The First Quest of Sir Lancelot", "How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot", and so forth--part of a fixed pattern that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Connie N Wooldridge Publisher Comments When he dies, a mean blacksmith is rejected by both St. Peter and the Devil.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Raouf Mama Publisher Comments This is a book for both young and old lovers of folklore. Why Monkeys Live in Trees andOther Stories from Benin is a rich tapestry of oral tales that come from a wide range of Beninese ethnic groups. They include trickster tales and sacred tales... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Gurney Publisher Comments The adventure continues when Professor Denison travels to the ancient caves beneath Dinotopia, discovering a civilization older and more advanced than any other known to man.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Padraic Colum Publisher Comments Geared toward young readers, these classic retellings of stories from ancient myth center on the Argonauts' quest for the golden fleece. Stories of the heroic Jason, Atalanta the huntress, Perseus and his bride from the sea, Theseus and the Minotaur, and... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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