Mermaid Tales from Around the World
by Mary Pope Osborne
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A collection of twelve mermaid tales from around the world, featuring such sources as France, Greece, and North Africa.Tags
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Not for tots; in fact probably best for teens and young women. Stunning illustrations done in the style of artwork from which culture each tale is drawn. For example, the English tale looks like a 'primitive' pub-sign family portrait, and the tale from Greece looks like it's from a terra-cotta urn. Gracefully retold to make reading and understanding easier - but still true to the style & themes of the originals (at least the ones I knew). Good author and great illustrator notes. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in classic fairy tales and global folklore themes.
The cover art is NOT even the best of Howell's art.
Each story is wonderfully illustrated in a completely different style.
Howell can pretty much do any style of art known to man and he's very good! The book itself gives a nice sampling of mermaid tales from around the world
Each story is wonderfully illustrated in a completely different style.
Howell can pretty much do any style of art known to man and he's very good! The book itself gives a nice sampling of mermaid tales from around the world
Wow...awesome
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Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she show more traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine. Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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