Apples from Heaven : Multicultural Folktales about Stories and Storytellers

Name: Apples from Heaven : Multicultural Folktales about Stories and Storytellers
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ISBN: 9780208024343

ISBN-10: 0208024344

ISBN-13: 9780208024343

Edition: 1995

Authors: Naomi Baltuck

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Book details

List price: $19.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Shoe String Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Introduction
The Golden Lamb (Iraq)	p. 3
The Dragon King's Feast (China)	p. 8
The Woodcutter's Daughter (Kazakhstan)	p. 11
Cutting a Story Down to Size (United States)	p. 18
The Most Noble Story (Mexico)	p. 19
Ali the Persian (Iraq)	p. 22
The Four Ne'er-do-wells (Afghanistan)	p. 26
The Story Spirits (Korea)	p. 29
The Humbled Storyteller (Russia)	p. 33
The Storyteller at Fault (Ireland)	p. 36
Now, That's a Story! (Hungary)	p. 47
Little Bobtail (Inuit)	p. 51
A Fair Price for a Story (Fiji Islands)	p. 54
A Sackful of Stories (Norway)	p. 58
Truth and Parable (Yiddish)	p. 69
Conal Crovi (Scotland)	p. 71
The Gossiping Clams (Suquamish)	p. 81
The Endless Story (Spain)	p. 83
The Silent Princess (Turkey)	p. 87
Backing Up a Story (China)	p. 95
The Storytelling Stone (Seneca)	p. 101
The Head of Donn Bo (Ireland)	p. 105
The Sage's Gift (Middle East)	p. 108
The Princes Who Were Blockheads (India)	p. 110
Tongue Meat (Swahili)	p. 113
Hoichi (Japan)	p. 116
Tell It to the Walls (Tamil)	p. 121
Wisdom (India)	p. 123
How All Stories Came to Be Known as Spider Stories (Ashanti)	p. 124
Why People Tell Tales (Romania)	p. 129
Lighting the Fire (Hasidic)	p. 133
Sources and Variants	p. 137
Acknowledgments	p. 142
Multicultural Index	p. 143
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