Magic and Misery: Traditional Tales from Around the World
Language: English
Published by Darby Creek (Tm), 2016
Series: Book 4 of 4 - World of Stories
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- Title
- Magic and Misery: Traditional Tales from Around the World
- Author
- Maggie Pearson
- Publisher
- Darby Creek (Tm)
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1512413410
- ISBN 13
- 9781512413410
- Illustrator
- Greenwood, Francesca
- Series
- Book 4 of 4: World of Stories
A little old man learns the secret behind a magical fiddle. An undersea princess leaves her amber palace for love. A mule waits for revenge on the one who wronged her . . .
Explore folktales, myths, legends, and fables from around the world. From magical to funny, tender to terrifying, these stories carry the spirit of diverse cultures and traditions around the world.
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"A storyteller puts her own stamp on 15 traditional tales from four different continents about shape-shifters, those people who turn into animals and back again. In her afterword, Don explains, 'I've altered all these stories as I tell them to make them work for me and for the audience I'm telling to.' She carefully states her sources and then explains her adaptations, sometimes saying that children have given her ideas. There are occasional anachronisms. 'Yuck' seems to be a favorite way to express disgust, but Don wants her readers to feel comfortable. If she loses some gravity in her tellings, she quickly gains readers' interest. A kid understands completely the boy who becomes a buzzard in a tale from Mexico and says 'Yuck!' when he finds out that he must eat dead bodies. 'Mom' and 'dad' are used in the final story, about a child becoming a werewolf, more original than most of the others, although 'inspired' by a German tale. The black vignettes (occasionally reused) and the small drawings of a branch with a caterpillar from 'The Ashkelon Witches' (a Jewish folk tale) appearing as a header and the snakes from 'The Snake Prince' (from the Punjab) flanking the page numbers contribute to the book's handsome design. Two other series entries publish simultaneously: Ghosts and Goblins: Scary Stories from Around the World and Magic and Mystery: Traditional Stories from around the World, both by Maggie Pearson and illustrated by Greenwood. Engaging stories that will hook kids, send them looking for traditional stories, and perhaps encourage some to take up the art of oral (and written) storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews
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