| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2020). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Eric Maddern -- Introduction -- From the Horse's Mouth (from the telling of Hugh Lupton) -- 1 Running Wild -- Wolf and Fox, Enemies of Old -- The Black Fox -- Hare Here on Earth -- The Hare and the Black Dog -- Deer Dreaming -- Deer Wife, Deer Son -- King Arthur and the Ermine Cloak -- How Ferret Came to Be -- The Grateful Weasel -- St Columba and the Squirrel -- Bear Skin -- 2 Field and Farm -- As Drunk as a Pig -- How Pigs Saved a Prince -- The Thieving Goat -- The Cattle from the Lake -- Faithful Gelert |
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Cat against Rat -- The Donkey in a Basket -- Another Christmas Donkey -- Jack in a Sack -- But One Horse Missing -- 3 Making Waves -- Whale Music -- How the Narwhal Became -- Saved by a Seal -- The Origin of the Selkies -- The Selkie Suitor -- The Selkie Bride -- Gotham's Eel -- Davey Kisses his Catch -- The Otter King -- The Little Crabfish -- A Crabby Curiosity -- Oldest of the Old, Wisest of the Wise -- 4 Creeping, Crawling and Scuttling -- How the Birds Helped Hedgehog -- Robert the Bruce's Spider -- How Spider Became Wolf -- Mischievous Moles and Mole-Catchers -- The Grateful Ants |
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A Rick of Rats -- Missy Mouse Marries the Moon -- Snake in the Grass -- God's Bargain with the Worms -- 5 On the Wing -- The Fly and the Flea -- Bat Woman -- War or Peace? -- The Children of Lir -- The Swan Captive -- Robin's Red Breast -- Gotham's Cuckoo -- How the Birds Got Their Colours -- How Magpie Taught Nestbuilding -- What Swallow Tells her Chicks -- The Rooks in the Pear Trees -- The Honey Bees and the Snow-White Hare -- Redstart Brings Fire -- 6 Reclaiming the Right to Roam -- Braving the Boar -- Boars' Break for Freedom -- The Grateful Wolf -- The Return of the Wolf? |
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The Sea Eagles' Revenge -- The Return of the White-Tailed Sea Eagle -- Lynx the Most Beautiful -- The Return of the Lynx? -- The Crane Skin Bag -- An Eyeful of Crane -- The Return of the Crane -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
A collection of folk tales about our native wildlife from a professional storyteller. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Folklore.
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Folklore -- Great Britain.
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Folklore -- Ireland.
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Animals. (OCoLC)fst00809468
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Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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| Genre/Form |
folk tales.
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Folk tales. (OCoLC)fst01921662
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Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
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Folk tales.
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| Added Author |
Baranowska, Bea, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: JACKSTIES, SHARON. ANIMAL FOLK TALES OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND. [Place of publication not identified] : HISTORY PRESS, 2020 0750991356 (OCoLC)1108553609 |
| ISBN |
9780750994460 (electronic book) |
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0750994460 (electronic book) |
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