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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Pearson, Maggie

Magic and Misery: Traditional Tales from Around the World

175 pp. | Darby Creek | September, 2016 | Library ISBN 978-1-5124-1319-9 $26.65 | Paper ISBN 978-1-5124-1341-0 $7.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5124-1342-7
(4) 4-6 World of Stories series. Illustrated by Francesca Greenwood. Overall, this series includes a good selection of traditional tales for reading and telling aloud, with each volume grouped by theme. Don sources her stories and tells how she adapts them; Pearson provides no source information and the stories in Magic and Misery are all European, despite the subtitle. Greenwood's black-silhouetted vignettes are a nice detail, if unnecessary. There are two other fall 2016 books in this series. This review covers the following World of Stories titles: Girls and Goddesses, Ghosts and Goblins, and Magic and Misery.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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