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Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.

Author: Matt Dembicki
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 1938486714
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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2010 Maverick Award winner, 2011 Aesop Prize Winner – Children's folklore section, and a 2011 Eisner Award Nominee. All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote or rabbit to raccoon or raven. The first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. In Trickster, 24 Native storytellers were paired with 24 comic artists, telling cultural tales from across America. Ranging from serious and dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fiendish, these tales bring tricksters back into popular culture.

Author: John Matthews
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763636463
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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An illustrated collection of tales featuring notable trickster characters such as Raven and Hare, from the folk traditions of many countries.

Author: Russell Brand
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501107275
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike. Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now except their teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin. The people of Hamelin were a pompous bunch who loved themselves and their town so much that if it were possible they would have spent all day zipped up in a space suit smelling their own farts. But space suits hadn’t been invented yet so they couldn’t. Then one day without warning a gang of rats bowled into the town and began causing a right rumpus… So begins Russell Brand’s wildly funny and surprisingly wise retelling of the classic tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Whether you’re a kid or a grown-up kid, you’ll be chuckling the whole way through this zany story that bypasses Brand’s more adult humor for the outrageous, the madcap, and the just plain silly. Maybe you’ve heard about the Pied Piper before, with his strange music and those pompous townspeople and pesky rats. Or maybe you haven’t. But one thing is for sure: you’ve never heard it quite like this.

Author: Richard Erdoes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174064
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends. American Indian Trickster Tales includes more than one hundred stories from sixty tribes--many recorded from living storytellers—which are illustrated with lively and evocative drawings. These entertaining tales can be read aloud and enjoyed by readers of any age, and will entrance folklorists, anthropologists, lovers of Native American literature, and fans of both Joseph Campbell and the Brothers Grimm.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152019587
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Coyote insists the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in diaster.

Author: Oyekan Owomoyela
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A collection of twenty-three tales involving Aj'ap'a, a tortoise with human traits who has relationships with an assortment of animal and human characters

Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430129743
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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"Terheyden's narration makes the characters come alive. A truly delightful addition to any collection." - School Library Journal

Author: Matt Dembicki
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 9781682752739
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. This inspired collaboration pairs twenty-four native storytellers with twenty-four accomplished artists, telling cultural tales from across North America.

Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.