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Summary:

A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

Author/Creator:

San Souci, Robert D.

Contributors:

Pinkney, Jerry , illustrator

Dial Books for Young Readers , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

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Weaver Collection

Weaver Collection Juvenile

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The talking eggs: a folktale from the American South [by San Souci, R.D.]

Subjects:

Eggs — Juvenile fiction

Eggs

Genres:

Printed books — United States — New York (State) — New York — 20th century

Juvenile works

Fiction

General Notes:

"The Talking Eggs is adapted from a Creole folktale originally included in a collection of Louisiana storeis byt he Folklorist Alcee Fortier and published late in the ninteenth century. The tale appears to have its roots in popular European fairy tales, probably brought to Louisiana by French emigres. Variations of the story,k with Cajun or Gullah overtones, suggest that it was gradually spread orally through other areas of the American South."--[op. verso title page.]
Weaver Collection copy: Gift: 2005.
Weaver Collection copy: Bound in publisher's slick-coated illustrated paper-covered boards. Retains original illustrated dust jacket, with applied Caldecott Honor sticker and applied Coretta Scott King Award sticker.
Caldecott Honor Book, 1990
Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book, 1990

Audience:

Children

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

J398.2 S229t
PS3569.A533 T35 1989

ISBNs:

0803706197
0803706200 (lib. bdg.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

88033469

OCLC Numbers:

18873666