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Author Ginsburg, Mirra, compiler

Title The kaha bird : tales from the steppes of central Asia. / Translated and edited by Mirra Ginsburg. Drawings by Richard Cuffari
Published New York : Crown Publishers, [1971]

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 MELB SPCBC  398.20958 Gin/Kgt  LIB USE ONLY
Description 159 pages : illustrations (part color), map (on lining papers) ; 22 cm
Contents The golden bowl.--Living water.--Oskus-Ool and his nine red horses.--Torko-Chachak--The silken tassel.--Three daughters.--Three maidens.--Two tricksters.--Maymunyak; or, The magic of the yellow monkey.--The wise Nasreddine.--The clever wife,--The shepherd, the tiger, and the fox.--The kaha bird.--The bear's son.--The fool.--The jackal and the polecat.--I was in it.--Flies.--Tsap-Tsarap.--A hundred lies
Summary A collection of tales from the folklore of Russia for centuries but who have preserved their ownindividuality and culture
Audience For children
Subject Children -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Soviet Union.
Tales -- Russia.
Tales -- Soviet Union.
Folklore -- Russia.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Cuffari, Richard, 1925-1978, illustrator
LC no. 70166532