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17) The Jack tales
Author
Publisher
Callaway
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
August House LittleFolk
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this British variant of a traditional tale, a great smelly, slobbery, small-tooth dog rescues a rich man from bandits and demands that the man bring his beautiful daughter to live in his castle.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings...