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10 Jan 2012 6 Comments
by Kim in Books, books 4+ Tags: boats, Fairy Tale, folktales, Magic, Russia
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1969
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
retold by Arthur Ransome
illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968
44 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: folktales, Russia, magic, ships, flying
Also by this author: Old Peter’s Russian Tales, Swallows and Amazons series
Also by this illustrator: The Treasure, Snow, How I Learned Geography, SoSleepyStory
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