East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Twenty-One Norwegian Folktales
Edited by: Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire
Adapted by: Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, Ingri d'Aulaire
Published by: Viking Press Inc
Simultaneously published by: The Junior Literary Guild
Publication Date: 1938
List: Junior Literary Guild
Description
The deep forests, the blue mountains, and the quiet closed-in valleys of Norway are possessed of a magical quality. Here it is not difficult to imagine strange creatures in the shapes of the mist on a bog, in the weathered stones, the straggly arms of a tree against the sky. And here, a long time ago, the people told tales of these strange creatures—trolls and water sprites, princesses and cinderlads, giant horses, talking cats, mountains made of glass.
From generation to generation these stories were kept alive by storytellers. Finally, in the middle of the nineteenth century, they were written down by two Norwegian scholars. This reissue of a favorite volume contains twenty-one of these old and best-loved tales, selected, edited, and illustrated with magnificent pictures by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire.
From the dust jacket
Want more? Paid membership includes:
- Time period, genre, location, reading level, full descriptions, content considerations, reprint information, and more
- Search across our entire database of books
- Lists of books by author and illustrator
- Keep track of which books you already own from our database
- Create a wish list of books you're searching for
- Create your own custom lists of books from our database
Enter your email to receive our monthly newsletter, The Alexandrian Scribe
Plus get your FREE Landmark book list.