The Thread of Life
Subtitle: Twelve Old Italian Tales
Contributors: Mary GrandPre (Illustrator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Published: August 12, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780762416691
Subjects: Fairy tales, folk tales, fables, magical tales & traditional stories; Short stories & other fiction; Folklore; Children: Grades 1-2; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Tales; General; Fairy Tales & Folklore - European; Fairy tales; Italy
First sentence: There was a time when Italian traders and explorers, finding the way to the East blocked by the Turks, turned west in their search for new lands to trade with-a search that led them to the New World.