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Awarded the 2002 Aesop Prize by the American Folklore Society


Can You Guess My Name?
Traditional Tales Around The World
Illustrated by Stefano Vitale
Clarion Books 2002

CONTENTS

Tales like "The Three Pigs"

"The Three Little Piggies and Old Mister Fox" (Scottish American)
"Big Pig, Little Pig, Speckled Pig and Runt" (African American)
"The Three Geese" (Italy)

Tales like "The Bremen Town Musicians"

"How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune" (Anglo American)
"Medio Pollito" (Argentina)
"Master Thumb" (Burma)

Tales like Rumpelstiltskin

"Titeliture" (Sweden)
"How Ijapa the Tortoise Tricked the Hippopotamus" (Nigeria)
"Oniroku" (Japan)

Tales like "The Frog Prince"

"Princess Tombi-ende and the Frog" (South Africa)
"How a Warty Toad Became an Emperor" (China)
"Little Singing Frog" (Serbia)

Tales like "Hansel and Gretel"

"Jean and Jeannette" (France)
"The Cake Tree" (Sri Lanka)
"The Runaway Children" (South Africa)

Comparative Folklore Notes on the Stories


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Storytelling and Folklore Collections
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Can You Guess My Name? Traditional Tales Around the World
Illustrated by Stefano Vitale. Clarion, 2002. Still more variants of favorite folktales, this time longer tales for older children, including "The Frog Prince" and "Hansel and Gretel," with detailed comparative folklore notes.

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