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SOLVED. Children's Fantasy with Transportation to a Fantasy Realm (9 new)

Mar 19, 2016 11:54PM

Sounds interesting! Is it anything on this list? https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

ABANDONED. YA, Popular girl befriends an unpopular, unattractive girl who becomes jealous of her (includes spoiler...) (8 new)

Mar 19, 2016 07:05PM

Could it be The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie?

SOLVED. Teen fiction: girl friends friendly teen girl ghost who becomes visible when wearing sneakers. [s] (5 new)

Mar 19, 2016 06:38PM

The Ghost in the Attic

Swan Maiden Tales? (5 new)

Mar 14, 2016 10:02PM

Thanks Emily! Those look pretty good.

Marsha, I'll take a look.

Swan Maiden Tales? (5 new)

Mar 12, 2016 11:47PM

Hey everyone!

I'm currently looking for picture books that contain a version of the Swan Maiden tale.

From Wikipedia, a summary of these tales is:

A young, unmarried man steals a magic robe made of swan feathers from a swan maiden so that she will not fly away, and marries her. Usually she bears his children. When the children are older they sing a song about where their father has hidden their mother's robe, or one asks why the mother always weeps, and finds the cloak for her, or they otherwise betray the secret. The swan maiden immediately gets her robe and disappears to where she came from. Although the children may grieve her, she does not take them with her.

I'm looking for tales that more or less follow that pattern (man steals clothes, the woman has to marry him, etc.) The woman in the story doesn't necessarily have to be a swan. I've already got a selkie/seal wife picture book and one that tells the Japanese tale of Hagoromo. I know a lot of countries have these kinds of stories, but I'm unsure how many have been told in picture book format.

Sorry if this is sort of specific! If you happen to know of a book that fits this description, please let me know! Thank you all so much :]

SOLVED. Fairy-tale collection from 1970s or earlier? [s] (32 new)

Feb 29, 2016 04:30PM

I found a translated collection of Czech fairy tales that could be it. It's not on Goodreads, but it's called "The Wise Jeweler and Other Tales from Czechoslovakia"

Here's the Worldcat link: http://www.worldcat.org/title/wise-je...

I found an article online about the fairy tale collection, noting that the translator opted to use "months" instead of moons (in Czech they are the same word)

SOLVED. A second fairy-tale collection from the 1970s [s] (3 new)

Feb 29, 2016 03:44PM

The Golden Book of Fairy Tales?

On Google Books you can look at the table of contents, and it has both Puss in Boots and Bluecrest https://books.google.com/books?id=lWM...

Main character is paralysed because parents refuse medical treatment and just pray (7 new)

Feb 28, 2016 03:25PM