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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Irish or Jewish tale?,
By Gneissguy (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Saint Patrick and the Peddler (Paperback)
The "Irish" story told in this short, 1993 book, despite the author's endnote about its origin, is very similar to the shorter story told in Uri Shulevitz's 1978 Caldecott Honor book, The Treasure. In both stories, a poor man travels many miles to meet someone on a bridge, where he is told that a treasure awaits him at home. In The Treasure, the man finds it in his stove; in St. Partrick and..., it is found under the hearth. Hodges adds many more details, specific place and personal names, and a message about the importance of literacy, but both stories are built on the same general framework.
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Saint Patrick and the Peddler (Orchard Paperbacks) by Margaret Hodges (Paperback - Mar. 1997)
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