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by Joseph Jacobs  Publisher Comments Experience the whimsy, charm and magic of the Celtic imagination in this captivating collection of timeless stories that have enchanted generations of youngsters and adults.... (read more)  List Price $3.00 Your price $0.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Margaret Macdonald Synopsis A rich man is rescued from harm by a smelly, slobbery dog. As a reward, he asks for the man's beautiful daughter. In this tale from England, Margaret Read MacDonald puts a new spin on the classic story, Beauty and the Beast.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Song Nan Zhang Publisher Comments Through the ages, the dragon has been an important symbol for the Chinese. A time of Golden Dragons is the most auspicious possible. In fascinating text and beautiful paintings, Song Nan and Hao Yu Zhang trace the dragon's history. Perhaps inspired by... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laurence Yep Publisher Comments When a poor farmer falls into the clutches of a dragon, only Seven, his youngest daughter, will save him'by marrying the beast. Publishers Weekly praised "Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling" and Mak's "skillfully and radiantly rendered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Hodges Publisher Comments When Dick Whittington sets off for London to make his fortune, he is shocked to learn how difficult reaching that goal will be. He struggles to survive until a wealthy merchant kindly offers him a job. Still lonely, Dick uses his few pennies to buy a cat... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Hague Publisher Comments < P> Michael Hauge lends vivid and lavish illustrations to the ultimate collection of classic dragon lore, from Perseus and Andromeda, to St. George and the Dragon. Available for the first time in paperback < /P> < P> o Michael Hague... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shirley Climo Publisher Comments A hero's feats? Ever since he was a baby, Becan's only worry has been his big feet--until his widowed father remarries.and#160; His new stepmothr and her three daughters feed him crusts of bread and banish him to work in the fields.and#160; So Becan runs... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia Polacco Publisher Comments When Luba helps a frightened wren, it promises to grant all of her wishes. "I am content, I have no wish," Luba says-at first. Then Luba's parents convince her to ask for a bigger house. After that, they want an estate, and later, they ask for a palace... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments This original folktale set in Cameroon is full of adventure and sly humor. Lloyd Alexander's story of a young man visiting--and then becoming--the village fortune-teller is brought to vibrant life with some of Caldecott Medalist Trina Schart Hyman's most... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Maddern Publisher Comments A traveler stops at a lonely cottage, hoping to scrounge a bed for the night. The grumpy old woman who lives there offers him the floor, but insists there’s no food in the house. “In that case,” declares the traveler, “I’ll... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert San Souci Publisher Comments Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with an old man and woman and their five faithful dogs in a tiny house at the edge of a forest. Deep in the forest lived goblins called Hobyahs, plotting their mischief. Who would save the people in the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geraldin Mccaughrea Publisher Comments This bronze cauldron of twenty-seven myths and legends from around the world contains a diverse assortment of tales such as the Indian legend of the young Buddha; the Jewish legend of the giant Golem sent to protect the Jewish people from their enemies... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pamela Dunc Edwards Publisher Comments Long, long ago, Old Pat, a merry-hearted harpist, and his ill-spirited companion, Young Tom, set off for a contest to name the finest harpist in all of Ireland. When Young Tom recognizes that Pat is truly the better musician, he spitefully begins to... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $3.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Jennings Publisher Comments This collection celebrates the rich tradition of folktales from around the world with sixteen stories from different cultures, including Africa, India, Scandanavia, and Russia.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christo Gregorowski Publisher Comments After a stormy night, a farmer, searching for his lost calf, finds a baby eagle that has been blown out of its nest. He takes it home and raises it with his chickens. When a friend comes to visit one day, he tells the farmer that an eagle should be... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by D J Mccormick Synopsis A companion volume to Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe, this book contains twenty-one more tall tales of the giant logger and his Blue Ox, Babe. Told first on winter nights around bunkhouse stoves in the lumber camps, these stories have become American legends.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Irving Publisher Comments A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. Full-color folk art.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julius Lester Publisher Comments Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman is re-created in a black southern storytelling voice in which the storyteller is involved--a voice readers may recognize from his retellings of The Tales of Uncle Remus, among others. He turns Sam's deals with hungry... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Washington Irving and Gris Grimly Publisher Comments Are all the lights on? Is there a parent in the house? Are the windows shut and locked? Double-check! They HAVE to be if you are going to read this book, which is undoubtedly the scariest rendition of one of the greatest ghost stories ever told... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Martha Hamilton Publisher Comments This story from Italy shows that, while good things come in small packages, they also come in furry packages. When a merchant finds himself in a land that is overrun by rats, he realizes that he has the most priceless gift in this country, namely his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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