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9780152223403
There is no child who won't want to curl up with these parables, fables, ghost stories, witch tales, and folk fictions. They dwell on aspects of the non-physical world, those elements just beyond human understanding around which various cultures have imagined and constructed careful truths. Yes, there is humor in these pages, whether found in the tricks of Baba Yaga or in the transformation of a prankster into a teakettle. The diversity and scholarship evident in the work is worth celebrating as well.Hamilton, Virginia is the author of 'Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World - Virginia Hamilton - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780152223403 and ISBN 0152223401.
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