Danny Aiello
The cherished Italian folktale about a magical wooden puppet who comes to life for his lonely toymaker creator. Rabbit Ears Treasury of World Tales: Volume 5 enlightens and entertains with these classic stories read by your favorite stars and ... [... more]
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The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
 They should have listened to their mother.: I love the playfulness of Yumi Heo's illustrations. They are cool and bursting with life. This folktale explains why naughty Korean children are called chung-gaeguri or green frogs. Karen Woodworth-Roman [... more]
CDN$7.95
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Nancy Nolte
Recently discovered in the Golden Books archive, this favorite folktale has been out of print for over 30 years. The early painterly art style of Richard Scarry looks new and fresh again in this keepsake edition. His lively images... RUN, RUN as ... [... more]
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Michael Palin
In this comic English folktale, young Jack foolishly sells his family's cow for a handful of magical beans. Overnight they grow into a beanstalk that reaches up beyond the sky. When Jack climbs the stalk, he meets a dimwitted ogre and his ... [... more]
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George Webbe Dasent
A beloved Norwegian folktale, EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON is the romantic story of a bewitched prince and the determined lassie who loves him... East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon George Webbe Dasent [... more]
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Morphology of the Folktale
This seminal work is excellent: This seminal work is essential for an understanding of structuralist theory and the theory of folklore. It differs from the psychological view of the folktale in its descriptive ability. This theory is based on objective [... more]
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The Lost Horse: A Chinese Folktale
Good story and sweeping artwork: Efficient text, coupled with sweeping illustrations, saturate this Chinese tale of happenstance and fortuosity. Sai is a wise man living in Northern China. Having few possessions, he takes things as they happen, for [... more]
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The Folktale
Classic overview of foltale studies, c. 1946: Stith Thompson of Indiana Univerrsity was one of the founders of academic folklore studies in the United States, and "The Folktale" is his best-known popular work. It's a massive (at times lumbering) [... more]
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An Introduction to the Russian Folktale
A Good Introduction to Russian Folktales: In this book, Jack Haney, presents a great introduction to the Russian folktale. It contains all the essentials for someone whose interest in russian folktales is just beginning and also contains enough [... more]
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Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato: An Irish Folktale
From Amazon.com: "Jamie O'Rourke is the laziest man in all of Ireland." So begins well-known children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola's retelling of a popular Irish folktale. Jamie is accustomed to his wife doing all the household [... more]
CDN$16.45
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Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap!: An Appalachian Folktale
Hilarious. reads well aloud.: My 2 year old son runs around the house yelling Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! We loved the characters in the story, and the colorful illustrations are captivating. A Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Winner!: [... more]
CDN$7.95
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The European Folktale: Form and Nature
A key to the world of fantasy: Luthi's book, like Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment," Stith Thompson's "The Folktale" and Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale," is an indispensable guide and resource on the folktale, [... more]
CDN$15.58
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