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Title: The Maid of the North by Ethel Johnston Phelps, Lloyd Bloom ISBN: 0-8050-0679-6 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Its not just for young girls!
Comment: I just love this book. And I was lucky enough to get a first edition in good shape. I haven't read folk-tales since I was a kid, and only just started because I needed to find one for a graduate class I am taking. These bite-size stories are perfect for bedtime reading because I can read a whole story and call it quits. No cliffhangers. And not only are the stories beautifully written, but they all portray the woman as being valuable for reasons other than beauty. Although this book is subtitled "feminist folk tales from around the world," I do not believe the book is just for young girls. Boys too should hear stories of powerful, smart women. In fact, they would probably be more interested in these stories than Cinderella and sleeping beauty.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Favorite Stories!
Comment: I love this book. Ever since a family friend gave it to me several years ago, I often go back and read the stories over and over again because they are so enchanting. For once, the female characters balance out with the usual "heroic" male counterparts; No damsels in distress or cunning and villainous old hags here. The Maid of the North is not, however, preachy or boring in its feminism, but it subtley sends the message out to girls that females in folktales can be just as intelligent, fun and resourceful as the males. These engaging stories are perfect for readers of any age.
Rating: 5
Summary: Really Great
Comment: I got this book as a little girl, along with another collection "Tatterhood", written and edited by the same people (I believe). This one stuck in my mind as being the most entertaining, although both were good.
The unique, although sparse, illustrations are very interesting and wonderful, not like any other drawings in children's book. Unlike "Tatterhood", the fact that these stories were about young girls really drew me, and was quite exciting. For parents with little girls interested in legends, fantasy, and faraway places, I'd definitely recommend buying this for your children and reading it aloud.
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Title: Tatterhood and Other Tales: Stories of Magic and Adventure by Pamela Baldwin Ford, Ethel J. Phelps, Pamela Baldwin-Ford ISBN: 0912670509 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Golem by Uri Shulevitz, Isaac Bashevis Singer ISBN: 0374327416 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1982 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More by MARINA WARNER ISBN: 0679759247 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger ISBN: 0226618579 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth by Tony Hillerman, Janet Grado ISBN: 0826309100 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.15 |
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