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(0)Harve Zemach
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
©1973
Description
Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy,...
Author
Series
Caldecott medal book volume 1974
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1986,c1973
Description
A Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin. The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name.
