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    Folk Stories
    Folk Stories
    Folk Stories
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    Folk Stories

    By W. Nikola-Lisa

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    Author and storyteller W. Nikola-Lisa presents three original folk stories in this handsome volume. While the first two stories ("The Girl and the Troll" and "Two Bags of Gold") offer traditional elements of a folk story-magic, daring, wonder, and amazement-the last story ("The Young Boy and the Old Man") is a meditation on the development of wr

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGyroscope Books
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9780997252477
    Folk Stories
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    W. Nikola-Lisa

    W. Nikola-Lisa is professor emeritus at National-Louis University in Chicago, Illinois where he taught in the Graduate School of Education. He is the author of numerous books for a variety of age levels. His books include the award-winning How We Are Smart, an exploration of Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Magic in the Margins, a story about bookmaking in the Middle Ages, and The Men Who Made the Yankees, an homage to one of the greatest baseball franchises in history.

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      Folk Stories - W. Nikola-Lisa

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      Folk Stories

      W. Nikola–Lisa

      Gyroscope Books

      Chicago

      Selected Works by W. Nikola-Lisa

      Bein’ With You This Way

      Can You Top That?

      Dear Frank: Babe Ruth, the Red Sox, and the Great War

      Dragonfly: A Childhood Memoir

      Gaya Lives in a Blue House

      How We Are Smart

      Night Is Coming

      Shake Dem Halloween Bones

      Shark Man

      Summer Sun Risin’

      Tangletalk

      The Men Who Made the Yankees

      The Year With Grandma Moses

      Wheels Go Round

      Copyright © 2018 by W. Nikola-Lisa

      Gyroscope Books, Chicago

      A NikolaBooks Production

      www.nikolabooks.com

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Send permission requests to:

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      Gyroscope Books

      4908 N. Paulina Street

      Chicago, IL 60640-3419

      ISBN: 978-0-9972524-6-0 (paperback)

      ISBN: 978-0-9972524-7-7 (e-book)

      LCCN: 2018906288

      For Ava and Reed

      The Girl and the Troll

      Two Bags of Gold

      The Young Boy and the Old Man

      About the Author

      Not everyone will believe these stories.

      Some will say they never happened.

      Others will say they could not happen.

      But whether you believe them or not,

      these are the stories that I heard as a child.

      The Girl and the Troll

      THERE ONCE WAS

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