FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Muton, Burleigh, Reteller

The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Helen Cann. Stories of different goddesses appear in this collection, including Isis collecting fourteen pieces of her brother, Osiris, from the Nile; Cerridwen giving birth to the Welsh bard Taliesin; and the Yoruba goddess Oshun creating balance on the earth. The tellings are flat, but they are broken up with plentiful graphite and watercolor illustrations and garlands of flowers, leaves, and fruit along the page borders. Bib.

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