Paul Honore

...Chaucer...Chevy Chase...Edmund Spenser...Sir Walter Raleigh...John Lyly...Sir Philip Sidney...Christopher Marlow...William Shakespeare...Ben Johnson...John Donne...John Milton...Thomas Gray.

"Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award-winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had a...