FAIRY TALE FEASTS - Hardcover

Heide Stemple; Jane Yolen; Philippe Beha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 189658084X ISBN 13: 9781896580845

Publisher: TRADEWIND, 2006

Synopsis

Caldecott-winning author Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi Stemple share fun facts and anecdotes about the creation of the stories included and the history of food. This innovative book is designed to encourage future cooks and storytellers to make up their own versions of the classics. Illustrated by internationally- acclaimed Canadian artist Philippe Beha.

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Synopsis

This work encourages future cooks and story tellers to make up their own versions of the classics. From the earliest days of stories, when hunters told of their exploits around the campfire, to the era of kings in castles listening to the storyteller at the royal feast, to the time of TV dinners, stories and eating have been close companions. So it is not unusual that folk stories are often about food: Jack's milk cow traded for beans, Snow White given a poisoned apple, Hansel and Gretel lured by the gingerbread house. Exquisitely illustrated by Philippe Beha, Fairy Tale Feasts is more than a collection of stories and recipes. In it, Caldecott-winning author Jane Yolen and her daughter, Heidi Stemple, imagine their readers as co-conspirators, cooks and tellers of tales themselves and share fun facts and anecdotes about the creation of the stories and the history of foods. All the tales have been retold from older versions by the amazingly prolific Jane Yolen, who has been dubbed "North America's Hans Christian Andersen".

Edition details

• Publisher: TRADEWIND
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189658084X
• ISBN 13: 9781896580845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176