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  • Published: 14 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804152860
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

Favorite Folktales from Around the World




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 Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

  • Published: 14 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804152860
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 512

About the author

Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of over three hundred children's books including Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs and Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs, Bad Girls (with Heidi E. Y. Stemple); Owl Moon, a Caldecott Medal Winner; the How Do Dinosaurs . . . ? series, and Sea Queens. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of the Americas. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and Scotland.

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