One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes: A Hutzul Tale

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Holiday House, 1996 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages
To honor her father's promise, a beautiful young girl agrees to become the slave of a witch and her two daughters, enduring their cruelty with the help of her talking pet goat.

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answer asked her daughter awoke basket of nettles basket of stinging beautiful began to sing beside branches Bury closed her eyes cooked corner dawn dead dream edge everything exclaimed Eye closed Eye hid Eye to follow Eyes gave Larissa eyes sleep Eyes's Father fell asleep forehead forest Fresh meat girl give golden apples hand Heaven hideous hooves and horns Hutzul invite knew Larissa another basket Larissa took little goat saw little white goat meadow meat nor marrow middle milk moss nettles into thread nettles were spun Never fear old witch old woman path pluck precious possession prince Promise realized returned rushed secret shawl showed slapped slave snoring Soon spin spot stinging nettles stone sure Take tears Tell Three Eyes asked Three Eyes gave Three Eyes screamed threw told Larissa Tomorrow morning traveled tree trick watch wish wonderful worse

About the author (1996)

Eric Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Lafayette College. He also has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Illinois. He was an elementary school teacher and college professor before becoming a full-time writer. He has published over fifty titles, many of which have won state and national awards. His titles "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" won the Caldecott Honor Medal, "The Chanukkah Guest" and "Gershon's Monster" won the Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award and "Anansi and the Talking Melon" won the Utah Children's Choice Award. Kimmel travels nationally and internationally visiting schools and talking about his books and telling stories. Illustrator Dirk Zimmer was born in Goslar, Germany on October 2, 1943. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He worked as a painter during the German avant-garde movement and then went into filmmaking. In the late 1970s, he began working as an illustrator for numerous publications including Crawdaddy, the New York Times, and New York Magazine. He illustrated about 40 children's books between 1978 and 2008. He is best known for illustrating In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz, Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole, The One That Got Away by Percival Everett, and Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire. He also wrote a book entitled Egon. He died on September 26, 2008 at the age of 64.

Bibliographic information

TitleOne Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes: A Hutzul Tale
Illustrated byEric A. Kimmel, Dirk Zimmer
ContributorEric A. Kimmel
Editionillustrated
PublisherHoliday House, 1996
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedDec 14, 2010
ISBN0823411834, 9780823411832
Length32 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic
Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General
  
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