More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World

More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World

More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World

More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World

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Overview

From the author/illustrator team behind Stories to Solve, here are eleven more twisty mysteries for tweens who like to puzzle it out. A great choice for emerging readers who are ready for chapter books and like puzzles, brain-twisters, and more. 

How did they do it? How did a single firefly win a fight against one hundred apes? How did the priest catch a thief with a rooster? How did a student outwit the king? How did a frog escape from the pitcher of cream? These and eleven more tantalizing, brain-teasing mysteries are waiting in the pages of this book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780380732616
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 03/06/2001
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 64
Sales rank: 442,441
Product dimensions: 5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x 0.19(d)
Lexile: 880L (what's this?)
Age Range: 6 - 10 Years

About the Author

George Shannon is a popular storyteller and former children's librarian whose many notable picture books include Tomorrow's Alphabet, Lizard's Guest, and White Is for Blueberry. Tippy-Toe Chick, Go!, illustrated by Laura Dronzek, was named a Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book. George Shannon lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.


Peter Sís is an internationally acclaimed author, artist, and filmmaker. Among his works are three Caldecott Honor books: The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain; Tibet: Through the Red Box; and Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei. He has illustrated five other novels by Sid Fleischman, including the Newbery Medal book The Whipping Boy. He lives with his family in New York State.

Table of Contents

Introduction7
1.The Snowman8
2.The New Prince11
3.All for One Coin15
4.Firefly and the Apes19
5.The Frog23
6.The Lawyer and the Devil27
7.Crowing Kettles31
8.Never Seen, Never Heard35
9.The Brahman and the Banker39
10.A Last Request43
11.Outwitting the King47
12.Sunrise51
13.The Tallest Tale53
14.The Bet57
15.The Ship61
Notes63
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