The Troll With no Heart in His Body
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0395913713 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great retelling I really enjoyed this book. I bought it to read to my four-year-old and the book well exceeded my expectations.Here you will find classics such as the Three Billy Goats Gruff and tales you may never have heard of. They are all beautifully put together and could be told as a traditional story teller might or read aloud for maximum impact.Great stories well told, and a treasure trove for children and folklorists alike.. Blast from the past Bearberry I was so happy to find these wonderful troll stories told the way I remember them! My mother (who grew up in northern Minnesota) told us kids these stories when we were very small (that's a long time ago). Lately I thought the tradition was lost because I could only find watered-down versions of the the Three Billy Goats Gruff, not the fascinating and powerful tales I remembered. But all is not lost. Here is a collection of genuine Troll stories, with ugly, scary. "Stories to Tell and Retell" according to Louise Cox. Lise Lunge-Larsen grew up with troll stories in Norway and has been sharing them with American children since her coming to this country. For a parent to read, or a storyteller to tell, this collection is rich and valuable. Children need stories as vehicles for understanding. They reveal universal turths. They speak to our inner circumstances, they make us human. Some of the basic lessons that are repeated and surface include: -be true to your nature -remember wh
Ugly, greedy, fierce and dimwitted, trolls provide admirable subject matter, and Lunge-Larsen spins her stories with enthusiasm. From Publishers Weekly Norwegian-born storyteller Lunge-Larsen scoured her homeland's literary landscape for this stellar collection of nine troll tales, many of which will be unfamiliar to American children. Readers learn, for example, that trolls will burst and turn into stone when exposed to sunlight, and that Edvard Grieg's famous "In the Hall of the Mountain King" for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt refers to the trolls of Norway's Dovre Mountains. Their rough-hewn, almost primitive quality belies the sophisticated
They can walk across oceans and fly over mountains. They can carry their heads under their arms or hide their hearts inside wells. As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore's most fascinating and varied creatures. To defeat them, children must rely on the strengths of their humanity-persistence, kindness, pluck, and willingness to heed good advice. Old or young, they are quarrelsome, ugly, and boastful, and they love to trick princesses and children. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. There are troll hags, troll daughters, and elderly, shrunken trolls. Trees and shrubs may grow from thei