Bibliograph

Tales of a Korean grandmother, 32 traditional tales from Korea, Frances Carpenter

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Tales of a Korean grandmother, 32 traditional tales from Korea, Frances Carpenter

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tales of a Korean grandmother

Oclc number

1101181667

Responsibility statement

Frances Carpenter

Sub title

32 traditional tales from Korea

Summary

The Korean people possess a folklore tradition as colorful and captivating as any in the world, and yet the stories themselves, for wholly incomprehensible reasons, are not as widely-known to Western readers as those from The Brothers Grimm, Mother Goose, or Hans Christian Andersen. Frances Carpenter has collected 32 classic Korean children's stories from the "Land of the Morning Calm": the woodcutter and the old men of the mountain; the puppy who saved his village from a tiger; the singing girl who danced the Japanese general into the deep river; Why the dog and cat are not friends; and even a more familiar tale of the clever rabbit who outsmarted the tortoise. The children of the Kim family sit at their beloved Grandmother's knee to listen to these and other traditional folk tales which are rooted in thousands of years of Korean culture

Target audience

pre adolescent

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