• Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. Foreword 1. My own self 2. The...
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    Legends from the Land of the Tsar collects a Russian version, while Ruth Manning-Sanders included a Gascon version as "The Blacksmith and the Devil" in her...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. I. Micabo's Island II. Ugly Thing...
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    Jacobs. A version of the tale appears in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1137 (Self Did It), similar to the encounter...
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  • Los Angeles London, 1977 Manning-Sanders, Ruth (1966). A Book of Witches. New York: Dutton. pp. 94–103. Manning-Sanders, Ruth (1971). A choice of magic...
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    Another of many versions of the tale appears in A Book of Giants by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is about a humble tailor who tricks many giants and a ruthless...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. It was the first anthology to...
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  • author Ruth Manning-Sanders. Her father was George Manning-Sanders, a writer of short stories. They also had a son, David, who was Joan Manning-Sanders's younger...
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  • written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in A Book of Princes and Princesses. It is Aarne-Thompson...
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    are illustrating several fairy tale compilations by Ruth Manning-Sanders, including The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales...
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  • been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is part of a long series of fairy tale anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This is a companion volume...
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  • collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies. Stories...
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  • collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It was the final published book in a long series of such anthologies by author Manning-Sanders, who died in October...
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  • retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Raymond Briggs. It was the first in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In an author's...
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  • collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. These tales are written for a slightly younger level of reader than Manning-Sanders' more familiar "A Book...
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  • Actien-Gesellschaft). Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book (1894) and Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in A Book of Dwarfs (1964). A childless couple prayed...
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  • 1964 anthology of 25 tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. The book features illustrations by Hungarian-British artist Victor...
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    Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning-Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press. They would collaborate...
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    Book. A version of this tale also appears in A Book of Dragons by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index type 821, the devil's riddle. Three...
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    (1890–1913) Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989) Howard Pyle's The Wonder Clock Ruth Manning-Sanders (Wales, 1886–1988) World Tales (United Kingdom, 1979) by Idries Shah...
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  • He listed as his source Francis Hindes Groome's In Gypsy Tents. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was first published...
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  • tale number 43. Andrew Lang included it in The Crimson Fairy Book. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it, as "The Prince and the Dragons", in A Book of Princes...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was published in the...
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    versions of the tale also appear in A Book of Witches (1965) by Ruth Manning-Sanders and in Paul O. Zelinsky's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, Rapunzel...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This is a companion volume to...
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  • children's books. He is notable for his long collaboration with Ruth Manning-Sanders, illustrating many of her collections of fairy tales from all over...
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  • have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. 1. Sir Green Hat and the Wizard...
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    but the devil in the story does indeed act like a folklore giant. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it, as "The Three Golden Hairs of the King of the Cave Giants"...
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