Charles Mikolaycak

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1) The Lullaby songbook

Pub. Date

1986

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A collection of fifteen lullabies, each with a historic note and a musical arrangement.

2) Babushka: an old Russian folktale

Author

Mikolaycak, Charles

Pub. Date

[1984]

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Retells the traditional tale of the old lady who, having missed her chance to take gifts to the newborn Christ Child, still wanders leaving gifts for all children in hopes that, one day, she will come upon Him.

3) Signs & wonders: tales from the Old Testament

Author

Evslin, Bernard

Pub. Date

c1981

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A retelling of Old Testament stories, including some Apocrypha, in which the author has tried to recreate the characters through dialog and description.

4) Perfect crane

Author

Laurin, Anne

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A lonely Japanese magician gains friends through the paper crane that he brings to life but then must set free.

5) A fair wind for Troy

Author

Gates, Doris

Pub. Date

1976

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Retells the events leading up to the Trojan War including Helen's capture by Paris and the sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis.

6) The highwayman

Author

Noyes, Alfred

Series

Visions in poetry

Pub. Date

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Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.

7) The hero of Bremen

Author

Hodges, Margaret

Pub. Date

c1993

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Retells the German legend in which a shoemaker who cannot walk helps the town of Bremen, aided by the spirit of the great hero Roland.

8) Exodus =: [Yetsiʾat Mitsrayim]

Author

Chaikin, Miriam

Pub. Date

c1987

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Retells the Biblical story of Moses leading his enslaved people out of Egypt.

9) Bearhead: a Russian folktale

Author

Kimmel, Eric A

Pub. Date

[1991]

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Bearhead succeeds in outwitting the witch Madame Hexaba and a frog-headed goblin.

10) A child is born: the Christmas story

Author

Winthrop, Elizabeth

Pub. Date

c1983

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An illustrated retelling of the birth of Jesus.

11) Voyages: poems

Author

Whitman, Walt

Pub. Date

1988

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A collection of fifty-three poems and selections from poems focusing on the people and places encountered by the nineteenth-century American writer from his mid-thirties through his early seventies.