In Brooke's third collection of newly rendered classic tales, an old man is ordered to stop reporting on the Emperor's degree of undress and, with the help of a little girl, to stick to writing fairy tales instead. When the unlikely pair embarks on a life full of stories, their everyday blends with the once-upon-a-time and they wonder: do the tales belong to the teller or the teller to the tales?
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In Brooke's third collection of newly rendered classic tales, an old man is ordered to stop reporting on the Emperor's degree of undress and, with the help of a little girl, to stick to writing fairy tales instead. When the unlikely pair embarks on a life full of stories, their everyday blends with the once-upon-a-time and they wonder: do the tales belong to the teller or the teller to the tales?
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Add this copy of Teller of Tales to cart. $3.65, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Add this copy of Teller of Tales to cart. $3.65, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Add this copy of Teller of Tales to cart. $21.95, very good condition, Sold by Cuyahoga Valley Book Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Peninsula, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Harpercollins Childrens Books.
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Very Good. Great book! Moderate shelf wear on dj, libray stamp on endpage, no markings in text. From School Library Journal: Grade 5 Up-Neither the stuff of high fantasy nor low comedy, Brooke's reworked fairy tales wind around in a constant state of re-examination, breaking through the edges of conventional story framing. Readers with a certain level of literate sophistication will chuckle at the sly word play (Nobody could complain about the baker because ""everyone needed what he kneaded.""). Yet there is a prevailing melancholy, a questioning of the nature of truth and our tenuous grasp of it. This latest in the trilogy, which began with A Telling of the Tales (HarperCollins, 1990), takes on not only folklore but also journalism. Teller, who tries to sell the news of the emperor's clothes in the first story, is aided by an urchin as he develops his stories. The tales-of the emperor, ""Rumpelstiltskin, "" ""Gold in Lock, "" and ""Little Well-Read Riding Hood"" (who knew the wolf wouldn't eat her because she'd looked it up)-and the lives of the girl and the Teller mingle and move around one another as the two grow older and wiser. In the final tale, the girl becomes the teller in Telling of the Tales as she reads that book's opening lines. It's hard to read these tales silently. Readers will find themselves looking up and saying ""listen to this."" A treat. Sally Margolis, Deerfield Public Library, IL Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Add this copy of Teller of Tales to cart. $43.14, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Harpercollins Childrens Books.
Add this copy of Teller of Tales to cart. $104.70, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Harpercollins Childrens Books.