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Han, Soma , Stickler, John C.

Maya and the Turtle: A Korean Fairy Tale

32 pp. | Tuttle | October, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8048-4277-8 $14.95
(4) K-3 A girl agrees to sacrifice herself to a giant centipede that threatens the village in order to earn money for her father's medicine. But with the help of a magical turtle, she survives and becomes a princess, as her long-dead mother had prophesied. Footnotes about Korean customs are informative (and necessary), but they interrupt the flow; the ornate paintings are inconsistent.
Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

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