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STORIES TO TELL
IT'S PERFECTLY TRUE AND OTHER STORIES. By Hans Christian Andersen. Twenty-eight stories translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac.
13 DANISH TALES. By Mary C. Hatch. A baker's dozen of robust, humorous folk tales.
MORE DANISH TALES. By Mary C. Hatch. Fifteen rollicking folk tales retold from Sven Grundtvig's Folkaeventyr.
A BAKER'S DOZEN. Selected by Mary Gould Davis. Thirteen stories which are especially successful in storytelling.
THE TREASURE OF LI-PO. By Alice Ritchie. Six original fairy tales set in China and told with beauty and distinction.
THE SHEPHERD'S NOSEGAY: Stories from Finland and Czechoslovakia. By Parker Fillmore. Children and storytellers alike will welcome these rich and robust folk tales, long unavailable.
ROOTABAGA STORIES. By Carl Sandburg. An omnibus volume including all the stories originally published in the two books Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.
THE TIGER'S WHISKER: And Other Tales and Legends from Asia and the Pacific. By Harold Courlander. Thirty-one Far Eastern folk tales, full of sly humor, adventure, and virtue rewarded.
THE HAT-SHAKING DANCE and Other Tales from the Gold Coast. By Harold Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh. A handsome collection of twenty-one wise and humorous Ashanti folk tales.
HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC.
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THE LAUGHING PRINCE
A book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
RETOLD BY PARKER FILLMORE
With illustrations and decorations by Jay Van Everen.
When Mr. Fillmore started his study of the folk lore of Eastern Europe, he tapped a mine of treasure for children. The gorgeousness of the imagery in the stories, their rollicking humor, the adventures, were entirely new to child and adult readers. The stories in this third volume reflect the folk lore of many races, for the country now known as Jugoslavia has been one of the great highways and battlefields of the world where Orient and Occident, Greek and Roman, Turk and Slav have fought out their national aspirations. Basically, it has the Slavic exuberance of imagination and humor, but it has also absorbed much of the spirit and tales of the Near and Far East.
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
757 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N. Y.
80-120
The Magic Listening Cap
More Folk Tales from Japan
BY YOSHIKO UCHIDA
Wisdom and humor abound in the fourteen folk tales of this second collection by the author of The Dancing Kettle. Once more Miss Uchida has dipped into the wealth of Japanese folklore to retell delightful stories that American children have seldom heard.
"The Wrestling Match of the Two Buddhas," "The Man Who Bought a Dream," "The Golden Axe," and others are a fascinating combination of the strange and the familiar. A different land, a different people, a different kind of magic all come to life in these colorful, imaginative tales. And yet running through them are such universal folk themes as the inevitable downfall of the greedy and the foolish. In all of these adventures there is a keen sense of the Japanese countryside with its mountains and sea, rice fields, deep green forests, and delicate gardens.
Retold with freshness and simplicity, these ancient tales are not only fun to read but also welcome new material for storytelling.
Illustrated by the author
Honor Book in the 1955 N. Y. Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book
Festival
60-100
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
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LIST OF FIXED ISSUES
p. 023—removed a duplicate period after 'frozen over'p. 094—typo fixed: changed 'to to' into 'to'
p. 096—inserted a missing 'is' between 'It' and 'like a fox's tail!'
p. 131—typo fixed: changed 'hankerchief' into 'handkerchief'
p. 214—typo fixed: changed 'to-morrrow's' into 'to-morrow's'.
p. 225—removed a duplicate 'and' in front of 'searched here'
p. 238—typo fixed: changed 'winepresses' into 'wine-presses'
p. 281—typo fixed: changed 'horseshoes' into 'horse-shoes'