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Tall tales and just-so stories
Karel Čapek’s Nine Fairy Tales (1932, tr. 1990 by D. Herrmann) is another treasure found while wandering my school library’s stacks. There are actually ten tales here (And One More Thrown in for Good Measure is the subtitle), most short enough for a … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 Reading Challenge, Animal tales, Fantasy, Read-aloud book
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