Tales of the Far North / Eva Martin ; pictures by László Gál.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Eva.

Contributor:

Gál, László, illustrator.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Canada.

Fairy tales.

Folklore--Canada.

Canada.

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Hong Kong : Printed by Everbest Printing Co.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dial Books, [1986]

Contents:

Healing spring

Princess of Tomboso

The three golden hairs

Little golden sun and little golden star

Fairy child

Jean-Pierre and the old witch

Goldenhair

St. Nicholas and the children

Beauty and the beast

Ti-Jean and the unicorn

Ti-Jean brings home the moon

Ti-Jean and the white cat.

Notes:

"First published in the United States 1986 by Dial Books ... Published in Canada 1984 by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd."

"First Edition."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

"The stories in this collection have been adapted from both French- and English-Canadian sources. Most of the stories were collected by folklorists in the early twentieth century from the second or third generations of settlers, who in their retelling of the stories retained the original them motifs, and adpted the stories to suit their new environment."

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacke retained.

ISBN:

0803703198

9780803703193

OCLC:

13064689