Contents: The flight of Icarus (Greek Myth by Alice Low); The bird of Seven colors (Puerto Rican Folk Tale adapted by Ricardo E. Alegria); The Voyage of Odysseu (based on Greet Epic Poem by Home retold by Margaret H. Lippert); Urashima Taro and the Princess of the Sea (a Japanese folk tale retold by Yoskiko Uchida); The Old House (A fairy tale by Hans christina Andersen); The Moroccan House of Marvels (from The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois); The Wages of Good (An African folk tale by Birago Diop); The People Could Fly (an American black folk tale by Virginia Hamilton); Farmer and Sons (an Aesop fable retold by James Reeves); The Ogre Who built a Bridge (A Japanese folk tale adapted by Yoshiko Uchida); I Shall LIve Forever (from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett); Gluscabi and the Wind Eagle (Abenaki story from the Northeastern US by Joseph Bruchac); The Grateful Stork (a Japanese folk tale retold by Yoshiko Uchida) plus Newbery Medal Acceptance; paul Revere's Ride; The Stone Dog; Coyote and the Money Tree; Carrying the Running-Aways; The Boy who Found the light (Eskimo); East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norwegian); ARchimede and the Kin's Gold Crown (Sicily); The Enormous Egg; clever Manka (Czechoslovakia); Fat Men from Space; Notes aabout the authors and Storytellers, indexes etc. A remarkable book.
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