Neil Philip, Selected by, Claire Henley, Illustrator, Neil Philip, Author Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-15939-0
Readers rub-a-dub-dub with The Fish Is Me: Bathtime Rhymes, selected by Neil Philip, illus. by Claire Henley. The squeaky clean volume contains works by the likes of Douglas Florian and Carl Sandburg, as well as traditional ditties (to wit: ""Miss
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Neil Philip, Retold by, Isabelle Brent, Illustrator, Neil Philip, Author Clarion Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-11754-3
Folklorists more than families may gravitate toward Noah and the Devil: A Legend of Noah's Ark from Romania by Neil Philip, with sumptuous panel paintings by Isabelle Brent. A composite of several Romanian legends, it has a cherchez-la-femme...
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Neil Philip, Author, Larry Wilkes, Illustrator Clarion Books $19.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-395-57456-0
Twenty-two stories adapted from original eastern European lore comprise this flavorful collection, which strongly affirms the enchanting appeal of fairy tales. Common themes of the genre are prevalent--kindness, cleverness and determination are...
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Neil Philip, Author, Michael McCurdy, Author, Michael McCurdy, Illustrator Hyperion Books $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0207-4
once upon a time in america While fairy tales are usually associated with European sources like the Brothers Grimm, American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories, edited by Neil Philip, preface by Alison Lurie, illus. by Michael
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Neil Philip, Author, John Lawrence, Illustrator Stewart, Tabori, & Chang $27.5 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55670-145-0
This elegant, 256-page collection of English poetry celebrates rich traditions in poetic forms--from early robust ballads and folk verse to breathtaking gems from such moderns as Yeats and Dickinson. It would be difficult to imagine a volume that...
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Neil Philip, Author, Nilesh Mistry, Illustrator, Neil Philip, Compiled by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7894-0202-8
Philip has sifted through myths from numerous cultures-Inuit, Aborigine, Native American, Greek, Norse, African and Celtic, among others-skillfully winnowing them down to a representative selection arranged around such topics as ""Fertility and...
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Neil Philip, Author, Sheila Moxley, Illustrator Orchard Books (NY) $19.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-531-06868-7
With its luxurious, jewel-toned illustrations, this handsome book affords a splendid introduction to the literary classic. Philip, a folklorist, presents a diverse selection of the stories collected and translated by Sir Richard Burton and others (an
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Neil Philip, Author, Isabelle Brent, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-316-70522-6
Shimmering pages, agleam with gold ink, gussy up this traditional fairy tale. A greedy king orders each of his three sons to search for the thief who stole fruit from a golden apple tree. The youngest son-one of the Grimms' least likely heroes-steadi
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Niel Philip, Author, Neil Philip, Author, Neil Philip, Editor Viking Children's Books $19.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-670-86873-5
Neil Philip brings together 60 chants, prayers and songs in Earth Always Endures: Native American Poems. Often haiku-like in their spareness, the quietly magnificent poems sing of war, love, the land and animals: they do not seem to have been chosen
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