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Disappointed by a lack of readily available folktales featuring women as heroines to read to her daughters, the well-traveled Ragan set about collecting tales from around the world for this anthology, which can be read and appreciated by youngsters and adults alike. More than 100 stories are included in the collection, which is arranged by broad geographic areas. Asia and the Pacific are widely represented, but there are only 14 stories from North and South America. Brief comments by the editor follow each story, and endnotes describe the sources. This convenient collection, more comprehensive than Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World (1981), for example, is appropriate for school, public, and academic collections.APatricia A. Beaber, Trenton State Coll. Lib., Lawrenceville, NJ
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Susan Griffin, Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review
It is the magic of these stories that came as a revelation to me. . . . I hope this book becomes a classic.

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There was a path that ran along near the edge of a cliff above the sea, and along this path in the gloaming of a misty day, came two fairy women of the Sidh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
living surf bird, feslihan plant, sealskin canoe, bush fowl, magical hat, small back parlor, ten slave girls, vampire skeleton, handsome young chief, fourth danger, two ingots, grand ministers, floating kelp, earth cellar, goblin king, spinach leaf, third merchant, master blacksmith, young beans, hundred cattle, pink pearl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mouse Woman, Mountain Dweller, Hassan the Clever, Red Wolf, Prince Sherif, Aban Act, Molly Cotton-tail, Hungry Billy, Little Red Riding Hood, She's Tipingee, We're Tipingee, Burd Janet, Lepo Tau, Flying Head, Green Lady, Tevau Na'a, Whuppity Stoorie, Liu San Mei, Mister Fox, Yellow River, First Grand Minister Senak, Lord Fermoy, Mahoseth Pandide, Maiden Liu, Molly Whuppie New!
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