Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of short folktales featuring silly characters, nonsensical situations, or general tomfoolery.
Tales of Nonsense and Tomfoolery
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of short folktales featuring silly characters, nonsensical situations, or general tomfoolery.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of short folktales featuring silly characters, nonsensical situations, or general tomfoolery.
Tales of Nonsense and Tomfoolery
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613888066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Folktales are among the most resilient types of lore one generation passes to another. Tales we tell today -- whether they are cautionary, humorous, or embedded with moral instruction -- date back to ancient civilizations.Storyteller, writer, and folktale enthusiast Pleasant DeSpain has an uncanny ear for those tales that transcend particular eras or cultures and have passed into the universal frame of reference. A pioneer of the storytelling renaissance, DeSpain first published some of the tales in these three volumes in the two-volume Pleasant Journeys, later repackaged as the two-volume Twenty-Two Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World.Now DeSpain has thematically arranged selections from the original collection (nine stories are included in each of Book of Nine Lives) and updated the sourcenotes and bibliographies. Repackaged into affordable, digest-sized, kid-friendly readers -- with updated pen-and-ink work by artist Don Bell -- these three volumes are only the first in DeSpain's Books of Nine Lives series.Like any species with extraordinary survival skills, folktales thrive because they are adaptive. DeSpain's adaptations carry his trademark elegance and succinct style.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613888066
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Folktales are among the most resilient types of lore one generation passes to another. Tales we tell today -- whether they are cautionary, humorous, or embedded with moral instruction -- date back to ancient civilizations.Storyteller, writer, and folktale enthusiast Pleasant DeSpain has an uncanny ear for those tales that transcend particular eras or cultures and have passed into the universal frame of reference. A pioneer of the storytelling renaissance, DeSpain first published some of the tales in these three volumes in the two-volume Pleasant Journeys, later repackaged as the two-volume Twenty-Two Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World.Now DeSpain has thematically arranged selections from the original collection (nine stories are included in each of Book of Nine Lives) and updated the sourcenotes and bibliographies. Repackaged into affordable, digest-sized, kid-friendly readers -- with updated pen-and-ink work by artist Don Bell -- these three volumes are only the first in DeSpain's Books of Nine Lives series.Like any species with extraordinary survival skills, folktales thrive because they are adaptive. DeSpain's adaptations carry his trademark elegance and succinct style.
Tales of Tricksters
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contains nine short folktales about tricksters, featuring selections from Persia, India, Poland, France, and other places.
Tales of Cats
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837131
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Contains a 'catty' collection of folktales from around the world.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837131
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Contains a 'catty' collection of folktales from around the world.
Tales of Heroes
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of nine hero folktales includes "William Tell" from Switzerland, "The Hero of Budapest" from Hungary, and "Burning the Rice Fields" from Japan.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836660
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of nine hero folktales includes "William Tell" from Switzerland, "The Hero of Budapest" from Hungary, and "Burning the Rice Fields" from Japan.
Tales of Enchantment
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contains a magical collection of folktales from around the world.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837117
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Contains a magical collection of folktales from around the world.
Tales of Holidays
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Contains a collection of folktales from around the world that depicts how various holidays are celebrated.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836677
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Contains a collection of folktales from around the world that depicts how various holidays are celebrated.
Tales of Insects
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836684
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of nine traditional tales about insects from various parts of the world, including Mexico, Japan, Jamaica, and Fiji.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836684
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of nine traditional tales about insects from various parts of the world, including Mexico, Japan, Jamaica, and Fiji.
Tales to Frighten and Delight
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837124
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of scary folktales from around the world.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874837124
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
A collection of scary folktales from around the world.
Tales of Wisdom and Justice
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of short folktales from Mexico, Israel, Poland, and other places, demonstrating wisdom and justice.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A collection of short folktales from Mexico, Israel, Poland, and other places, demonstrating wisdom and justice.