Duffy and the Devil (Caldecott Medal Winner; National Book Award Finalist)

Name: Duffy and the Devil (Caldecott Medal Winner; National Book Award Finalist)
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ISBN: 9780374418977

ISBN-10: 0374418977

ISBN-13: 9780374418977

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Authors: Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach

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Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy, cliff-hanging villages that dot England's southwestern coast from Penzance to Land's End. The language spoken by the Christmas players was a rich mixture of local English dialect and Old Cornish (similar to Welsh and Gaelic), and…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 12/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 40
Size: 8.47" wide x 10.26" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

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