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FAIRY TALES FOR PRE-TEENS.(AT HOME)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 19971018
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Byline: Newhouse News Service

Here are a couple more books that might interest younger readers:

''American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories'' compiled by Neil Philip, illustrated by Michael McCurdy (Hyperion; 160 pages; 1996; ages 10 and older).

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Howard Pyle, L. Frank Baum and Louisa May Alcott are among the noted authors represented in this lively collection.

The book's quintessential American fairy tale is ''How They Broke Away to Go to the Rootabaga Country'' by Carl Sandburg. In this memorable story Gimme the Ax, ...

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