Richard Ungar
The stories of the fabled village of Chelm and its inhabitants are favorites in Jewish folklore. Newcomer Richard Ungar captures the joyous spirit of these folktales in his words and pictures. The people of Chelm were crazy about the moon and the ... [... more]
Random House |
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
 From Amazon.com: Virginia Hamilton, Newbery Medal winner and recipient of the National Book Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, teams up with two-time Caldecott Medal winners, Leo and Diane Dillon, in this classic collection of American black [... more]
CDN$37.95
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Stephen Fieser
Barbara Rush has edited Jews of Kurdistan and Seventy and One Tales for the Jewish Year: Folktales for the Festivals. She lives on Long Island, NY. Uri Shulevitz has illustrated The Fool of the World & the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale, retold by ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Donna L. Washington
Donna L. Washington is a professional storyteller, actress, and author. She started performing at age six. She has adapted folktales into two full-length stage productions at Chicago's Upstage Downstage Theater and performed at numerous ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
A.K. Ramanujan
Folktales from India is an enchanting collection of one hundred and ten tales translated from twenty-two different languages, by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts; ... [... more]
Random House |
Pinhas Sadeh
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales. It draws from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast ... [... more]
Random House |
Diane Wolkstein
Diane Wolkstein travels throughout the world performing myths and folktales and giving workshops on storytelling. She is the author of twenty-one award-winning books of folklore, including the Sumerian epic and Other Haitian Folktales. Wolkstein ... [... more]
Random House |
Roger Abrahams
Roger D. Abrahams is a former president of the American Folklore Society. Among his most recent books are African Folktales (also availabe in Pantheon paperback), After Africa (with John Szwed, and Singing the Master. Nearly 100 stories from over ... [... more]
Random House |
Folktales from India
these tales have no borders: It doesn't matter what country your from, these tales are classic. Sure there's a lot of cultural lingo in these, but nothing to the point that brings the reader into a state of confusion. Basically it's easy to understand [... more]
CDN$26.00
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Norwegian Folktales
One for the Desert Island Library: I'm a middle-aged English professor, but I love this book now, as I did when I was a kid. If I had to whittle my personal library down from its present size (maybe 3000?) to a hundred books, I'm sure I'd still keep this [... more]
CDN$21.00
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A View from the Witch's Cave: Folktales of the Pyrenees
Great anthology, misleading title: "A View from the Witch's Cave" is a great anthology of sixty-four folktales from the Spanish Basque Country. Collected between 1900 and 1956 by José Miguel de Barandiarán, the Jakob and Wilhelm [... more]
CDN$30.00
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales
Wonderful Collection of Fairy Tales: This wonderful book introduces Palestinian culture to the world. In the footsteps of the brothers Grimm, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana roamed all over Palestine collecting folktales from the old people. The major [... more]
CDN$28.08
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