Folk Tales Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Popular Traditions of Various Nations for Young People |
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As fairy tales ago this is not the sanitized "g" rated tales that kids read now. I liked it and remember many of the tales from reading or hearing them as a child of the mid-century.
I recommend it to teens and anyone interested in how these tales have changed.
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| Title | Folk Tales Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Popular Traditions of Various Nations for Young People The what every child should know library |
| Editor | Hamilton Wright Mabie |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap, 1912 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jun 28, 2013 |
| Length | 215 pages |
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