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The turnip
Badger Girl's delighted to find the biggest turnip she's ever seen growing in her vegetable garden, but when the time comes to harvest the giant root, she's unable to pull it up without help from family and friends.
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Hiroshima
On our first day here we had luxurious food: rice with red beans, then red and white rice cakes in the nearby village. [...]the night before that, at home, I had sweet rice cake dumpling with bean paste with extra sugar that Father brought from the shrine. Yukio and Tomiko were angry because Mother did not follow the rules and brought me luxurious food: two pears, and rice with red beans, and sesame seeds mixed with salt. Thank you for the pears and the rice with red beans and the sesame seeds mixed with salt.
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Anna Bender (White Earth Chippewa)
In a little Ojibway camp near a beautiful little stream there lived a poor old woman with her grandson, whose name was Quital.
One day the boy’s companions were going out to hunt buffaloes, but he could not go because he had only one poor pony while all his friends had a number of fine ones.
He felt very lonely and was almost ready to cry. His grandmother noticed this and was very sorry for him. She called him to her and said, “My grandson, you have always been a good boy to me; do now what I shall tell
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Locomotive ; The turnip ; The birds' broadcast
In the late 1930s renowned Polish poet Julian Tuwim, was asked to write three poems for children. The publisher Przeworski connected the three poems into one book, Locomotive, and commissioned illustrations from celebrated Polish illustration duo Lewitt and Him.
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Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration
Erskine Caldwell enjoys what is perhaps one of the most dubious distinctions possible for a writer: he is popular—one of the most, if notthemost, popular of all modern Southern writers. This has brought him money, security, even fame (who, after all, hasn’t heard of him?), but also a great deal of obloquy. It is usual, for example, to claim that Caldwell is a sensationalist posing as a journalist—a historian, of a kind, who tends to forget facts and concentrate instead upon bizarre, intriguing details. The assumption, somehow, is that Caldwell is really after verisimilitude, and that
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Conclusion
One simple but sophisticated definition holds that “[t]he fairy tale is a form of artistic narrative using marvellous motifs in addition to motifs referring to social reality in a way that influences the development of the plot.”² BothThe Turnip TaleandThe Donkey Talemeet this definition, but they have two features that have impeded their acknowledgment as fairy tales. Although the definition makes no mention of style, the tales of the Brothers Grimm, their predecessors, and their successors have characteristics that relate to both oral traditional storytelling and literary narration. BecauseThe Turnip TaleandThe Donkey Tale
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