Not one damsel in distress
Subtitle: heroic girls from world folklore
By: collected & told by Jane Yolen ; with illustrations by Susan Guevara
Contributors: Guevara, Susan, ill
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781328900203
Subjects: Tales; Juvenile literature; Folklore; Women
Description: These fifteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, bold, brave heroines and not one damsel in distress! From Bradamante, the fierce female medieval knight, to Li Chi, the Chinese girl who slays a dreaded serpent and saves her town, these heroines use their cunning, wisdom, and strength to succeed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133).

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Table of contents: title: Atalanta the huntress (Greece); title: Nana Miriam (Niger); title: Fitcher's bird (Germany); title: The girl and the puma (Argentina); title: Li Chi slays the serpent (China); title: Brave woman counts coup (United States/White River Sioux); title: Pretty Penny (United States/Ozark Mountains); title: Burd Janet (Scotland); title: Mizilca (Romania); title: The pirate princess Poland/Jewish; title: The samurai maiden (Japan); title: Bradamante (France); title: Molly Whuppie (England); title: The princess Kemang (Indonesia); title: Masha and the bear (Azerbaijan).