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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Mermaid of the Great Lakes

Tallulah doesn't look like the other young mermaids living in the ocean. Her tail is a dull gray. And when all the other mermaids go on a quest to find the special gemstones that make their tails sparkle with color, Tallulah doesn't find her gemstone at all. When Turtle suggests that Tallulah searches the Great Lakes she is eager to give it a try, even though the other sea creatures believe mermaids don't belong in lakes. Tallulah explores the Great Lakes from north to south and east to west, until she finds a beautiful Petoskey stone and she realizes that she is finally exactly where she belongs.

Tallulah

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#hardcover #childrens #livingbook #china #kids #picturebook #vintage #diverse #children #folktale 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Physically identical in every way, each of the 5 Chinese brothers has one distinguishing trait that saves the lives of all of them.

The Five Chinese Brothers

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First edition book that has a little bit of everything woven together expertly to keep you reading!  

ex-library book in excellent condition with the exception of stickers on the cover and spine, as well as the library stamp on the first page

Maryland

A Novel

From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt’s long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village—thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to observe. Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love story and Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Undermajordomo Minor

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A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as the history, culture, and geography of the African nation of Zimbabwe.

Inspired by a traditional African folktale, this is the story of Mufaro, who is proud of his two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but everyone--except Mufaro--knows that Manyara is selfish and bad-tempered.

When the Great King decides to take a wife and invites the most worthy and beautiful daughters in the land to appear before him, Mufaro brings both of his daughters--but only one can be queen. Who will the king choose?

Award-winning artist John Steptoe's rich cultural imagery of Africa earned him the Coretta Scott King Award for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. The book also went on to win the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. This stunning story is a timeless treasure that readers will enjoy for generations.

 * Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration
 * Caledcott Honor
 * Reading Rainbow Book
 * Boston Globe-Horn Book

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

New Mexico

In this Jewish folktale from Morocco, a bachelor receives a magic pot from an imp, but it is stolen by an old woman.

The Bachelor and the Bean

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#paperback #folktale #princess #childrens #juvenilefiction #fantasy #princessacademy#shannonhale

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Princess Academy

After Sachi cares for an injured crane, a beautiful woman asks to be his wife and weaves wonderful silk that makes him a rich man.

The Crane Wife

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#hardcover #exlibrary #fairytale #literature #livingbook #childhood #childrensliterature #folklore #folktale #fairytales 

Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

A richly expanded edition of the classic call-to-arms. Yolen argues perceptively that fantasy, folklore, and the realm of story provide our children with a "star map for our future". Six new essays tender fresh perspectives on the morality of fairy tales, time travel, the definition of story and, of course, why such themes are essential to the development of today's children.

Touch Magic

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A classic trickster folktale told with humor and charm, this is a perfect read along book both parents and children will love.

When Anansi the Spider finds a strange moss-covered rock in the forest, he uses it to trick all his animal friends. But Little Bush Deer is onto Anansi's scheme, and hatches a plan to beat him at his own game.

Based on tales originating in West Africa and familiar in Caribbean culture, the five-book Anansi the Trickster series is full of slapstick humor and mischief. Eric A. Kimmel's imaginative energy combined with Janet Stevens' expressive illustrations create the perfect silly stories for fun-loving kids.

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows minimal wear. Ex-library with noted markings. #hardcover #folktale #childrens #kids #selflesslove 

Rose saves the lives of her twelve brothers after a fairy turns them into geese.

The Twelve Wild Geese

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Ex church library copy, Mylar covered dust jacket. 

The Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child.

Baboushka and the Three Kings

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"Stirring...with a rhythm just right for reading aloud...a West Indian version of the universal little-man (Rumpelstiltskin) folktale. Quashiba's mother...boasts that her daughter can spin and weave a whole field of the finest gold thread. Dramatic words and pictures." - Booklist, starred review. "A charming and visually stunning tale of cunning, greed, and quixotic good fortune." - School Library Journal, starred review

The Girl Who Spun Gold

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#hardcover #patriciapolacco #childrens #picturebook #juvenilefiction #fiction #livingbook #babushkababayaga #folktale #forest

She was the last of her kind. A creature of legends. A being of the forest. AAnd? stories . . . were told of her - stories of the terrible, horrible Baba Yaga.

In truth, Baba Yaga was kind, and very lonely. And as she watches the babushkas of the village delight in their grandchildren, she longs for a grandchild of her own.

Then she has an idea: She will be a babushka instead of a Baba Yaga. She dresses herself up as a kindly grandmother and enters the village. When she comes across a young woman and her grandmotherless son, they adopt her as their very own babushka, and as the days pass, Baba Yaga and the boy, Victor, grow to love each other very much.

Until one day, Victor hears stories of the horrible, wicked Baba Yaga, and she knows that she must go back to the woods before the child finds out who she really is.

Legend would have Baba Yaga evil and unkind, but in Patricia Polacco's version of this Russian folktale, enlivened by her rich, vibrant art, we are reminded to judge not by rumor and appearance, but by what we know in our own hearts to be true.

Babushka Baba Yaga

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#hardcover #fiction #dianesetterfield #folktale #historicalfiction #nytbestsellingauthor #fantasy #slowburn 

Georgia

“One of the most pleasurable and satisfying new books I've read in a long time. Setterfield is a master storyteller...swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful.” —Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles “A beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing.” —M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans “This is magical, bewitching storytelling...High prose expressed with rare clarity, story for the unashamed sake of story, a kind of moral dreaminess…well, the list continues to grow.”—Jim Crace, National Book Critics Circle winner and author of Being Dead and Harvest From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a richly imagined, powerful new novel about the wrenching disappearance of three little girls and the wide-reaching effect it has on their small town. On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed. Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens. The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless. Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. A farming family reeling from the discovery of their son’s secret liaison, stand ready to welcome their granddaughter. The parson’s housekeeper, humble and isolated, sees in the child the image of her younger sister. But the return of a lost child is not without complications and no matter how heartbreaking the past losses, no matter how precious the child herself, this girl cannot be everyone’s. Each family has mysteries of its own, and many secrets must be revealed before the girl’s identity can be known. Once Upon a River is a glorious tapestry of a book that combines folklore and science, magic and myth. Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, the beginning of this novel will sweep you away on a powerful current of storytelling, transporting you through worlds both real and imagined, to the triumphant conclusion whose depths will continue to give up their treasures long after the last page is turned.

Once upon a River

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#paperback #folktale #african #kids #children #childrensbook #livingbook #fable #tales #westafrica


A West African Folk Tale

Chinye lives with her cruel stepmother and lazy stepsister, but her life changes for the better when a mysterious old woman in the forest directs her to a magic gourd.

Chinye

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The Five Chinese Brothers 

Utah

#adventure #disney #mulan #princess #chinese #folktale #fiction #movie #juvenilefiction #middlegrade 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Live Action Novelization

A thrilling paperback novelization that will take readers back inside the world of the upcoming Walt Disney Studios' live action Mulan film to relive the adventures with their favorite characters, old and new.

🫡 Mulan

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Florida

A Hanukkah Tale

With Hanukkah about to begin, Rivkeh is worried because her family is so poor, but when a poor stranger comes to the door, her generous family cannot turn him away.

Just Enough Is Plenty

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The Tiger and the Tortoise 

#hardcover #fantasy #chinese #folktale #chinesefolktale #series #trilogy 


The Sign of Qin

In long-ago China, Prince Zong, the mortal young Starlord chosen to save humankind from destruction, joins the twin outlaws, White Streak and Black Whirlwind, to fight the Lord of the Dead and his demon hordes.

The Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh

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#hardcover #fiction #dianesetterfield #folktale #nytbestsellingauthor #fantasy #slowburn 

New Hampshire

Edge wear. Name inside. #paperback #ashanti #folktale #talktalk #legend #childrens #kids 

An Ashanti Legend

Magnificent illustrations and captivating texts tell the legends of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Native America.

Denise Brennan-Nelson; Susan Kathleen Hartung (Illustrator)

Tallulah

Claire Huchet Bishop; Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)

The Five Chinese Brothers

Patrick deWitt

Undermajordomo Minor

John Steptoe (Illustrator)

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Shelley Fowles (Illustrator)

The Bachelor and the Bean

Shannon Hale

Princess Academy

Ena Keo; Cheryl Kirk Noll (Illustrator)

The Crane Wife

Jane Yolen

Touch Magic

Eric A. Kimmel; Janet Stevens (Illustrator)

Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock

Matt Faulkner (Illustrator)

The Twelve Wild Geese

Ruth Robbins; Nicolas Sidjakov (Illustrator)

Baboushka and the Three Kings

Virginia Hamilton; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)

The Girl Who Spun Gold

Patricia Polacco (Illustrator)

Babushka Baba Yaga

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a River

Obi Onyefulu; Evie Safarewicz

Chinye

Claire Huchet Bishop, Kurt Wiese

The Five Chinese Brothers

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a River

Elizabeth Rudnick

🫡 Mulan

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a River

Barbara Diamond Goldin; Seymour Chwast (Illustrator)

Just Enough Is Plenty

Wang Yanrong

The Tiger and the Tortoise

L. G. Bass

The Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a River

Deborah M. Newton Chocolate; Dave Albers (Illustrator)

Talk, Talk