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Tales from the Amazon / by Elsie Spicer Eells ; with illustrations by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 5858
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eells, Elsie Spicer, 1880-1963, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Brazil.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Corvallis Public Library (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 243, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- Binghamton, N.Y. : Printed in the United States of America by The Vail-Ballou Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1960.
- Contents:
- The magic tooth
- Karu and Rairu
- Surá's seeds
- Why the owl rules the night
- The children of the House of Dawn
- When Cavillaca ran away
- When the sun fell from the sky
- How sleep came
- How strife came to the world
- How the Great Flood began
- Why the fox has a dark tail
- The mother
- The king
- The royal prince
- The contests
- How the alligator got his scales
- How the races obtained their colors
- The frog witch
- How the fox used his wits
- Sumé
- The story of Mandioca
- The son of Ulé
- How the tortoise conquered his enemies
- The flight of Tiri
- The story of the flute
- In the days of the Amazons.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has book pocket with blue ink stamp ("CORVALLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY") on verso of back free endpaper; discard stamp covered by a white paper label on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1277179800
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