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Tales of a Korean grandmother
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- Summary
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A Korean grandmother tells her grandchildren the traditional tales and legends of their country.
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- Creator
- Frances Carpenter ; illustrated with reproductions from old Korean paintings
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Junior Literary Guild ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1947
- Physical Details
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- 287 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm10863396
- The house of Kim -- Land of morning brightness -- Ki Ja's pottery hats -- Why the dog and the cat are not friends -- Sticks and turnips! Sticks and turnips! -- The tiger and the puppy -- the bird of the five virtures -- The blind man's daughter -- The man who lived a thousand years -- A fortune from a frog -- The great fifteenth day -- A Korean cinderella -- The rabbit that rode on a tortoise -- Letters from heaven -- The mourner who sang and the nun who danced -- The ant that laughed too much -- Rice from a cat's fur -- The beggar's friend -- The village of the pure queen -- A story for sal -- The two stone giants -- The mole and the Miryek -- The king's seventh daughter -- The woodcutter and the old men of the mountain -- The good brother's reward -- The pansu and the stableboy -- The sparrows and the flies -- Clever Sim who would "squeeze" -- The tiger hunter and the mirror -- The rooster and the centipede -- the rock of the falling flower -- Epilogue-Many, many years later, Ok Cha's strangest stories
Subjects
- Tales -- Korea.
- Folklore -- Korea.
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