Overview
An international collection of 18 nursery tales for young children, grouped by theme, such as ""Runaway Cookies,"" ""Slowpokes and Speedsters,"" and ""Chain Tales,"" and brillantly illustrated with full-color borders.
Full Product Details
Author: Judy Sierra ,
Stefano Vitale
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Imprint: Clarion Books
Weight: 0.687kg
ISBN: 9780395678947
ISBN 10: 0395678943
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 18 February 1996
Recommended Age: 3+
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Eighteen traditional stories. . . . The tales themselves have been chosen with the heart and ear of a storyteller. Kirkus Reviews with Pointers --
Eighteen traditional stories, specifically selected, according to the introduction, for reading to children who are beyond nursery rhymes but are not yet ready for Winnie-the-Pooh. Sierra (The Elephant's Wrestling Match, 1992, etc.) gives the whole enterprise an academic air, opening with a disquisition on the nature and educational benefits of folktales and closing with needlessly detailed source notes ( Catalogued by Aarne and Thompson as Tale Type 275A . . . ). The tales themselves, though, have been chosen with the heart and ear of a storyteller: a healthy mix of chestnuts (Joseph Jacobs's Three Little Pigs ), less common stories ( The Pancake, from Norway), and delightful variants on familiar tales, such as a Philippine version of The Bremen Town Musicians that features a crab, an eel, a bedbug, a mosquito, and a small bird. The stories are arranged into thematic triplets - Fooling the Big Bad Wolf, Runaway Cookies - accompanied by Vitale's stately, naive illustrations and his wide folkloric borders around each page, all done with thinly applied oils on rough panels of wood. A sumptuous, if cerebral, alternative to Kay Chorao's Child's Storybook (1985) or Anne Rockwell's popular collections. (Kirkus Reviews)
Eighteen traditional stories. . . . The tales themselves have been chosen with the heart and ear of a storyteller.
Author Information
Judy Sierra holds a Ph.D. in folklore from UCLA. She is the author of many esteemed children's books, including Nursery Tales Around the World, winner of the Aesop Prize from the American Folklore Society, and Good Night, Dinosaurs. She is also the reteller/compiler of several books of folklore for teachers and storytellers. Ms. Sierra lives in Northern California. Stefano Vitale is an internationally acclaimed artist and illustrator. Originally from Padua, Italy, he lived in the U.S. for many years before returning to Italy with his wife and children. He now lives in Venice and commutes in a colorful wooden boat. Visit him online at stefanovitale.com
