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Campbell, Jen.
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Tales -- Juvenile literature.
Legends -- Juvenile literature.
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Campbell, Jen.
Tales -- Juvenile literature.
Legends -- Juvenile literature.
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The sister who ate her brothers : and other gruesome tales / Jen Campbell ; illustrated by Adam de Souza.
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Campbell, Jen.
Thames and Hudson, c2021.
Call #:
398
.2
C188s
Subjects
Tales -- Juvenile literature.
Legends -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780500652589
0500652589
Description:
116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The sister who ate her brothers (Korea) -- The souls trapped under the ocean (Ireland) -- The house that was filled with ghosts (Japan) -- The boy who tricked a troll (Norway) -- The daughter who loved a skeleton (Nigeria) -- The princess who ruled the sea (Inuit) -- The husband who cheated death (Egypt) -- The adults who lost their organs (Germany) -- The kingdoms at the centre of the earth (Russia) -- The wife who could remove her head (El Salvador) -- The man who hunted children (South Africa) -- The son of seven mothers (India) -- The girl with the horse's head (China) -- The woman and the glass mountain (Spain).
Summary:
Do you dare read this collection of terrifyingly gruesome tales? In this gripping volume, author Jen Campbell offers young readers an edgy, contemporary, and inclusive take on classic fairy tales, taking them back to their gory beginnings while updating them for a modern audience with queer and disabled characters and positive representation of disfigurement.
Genre:
Fables.
Children's stories, English.
Other authors:
de Souza, Adam.
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