Jonnikin and the Flying Basket: French Folk and Fairy Tales
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Jonnikin and the Flying Basket: French Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1969 anthology of 17 French
tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders
. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
tales that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Ruth Manning-Sanders was a prolific British poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of children's books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. All told, she published more than 90 books during her lifetime. The dust jacket for A Book of Giants...
. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
Table of contents
- The Gold Dragoon
- Jonnikin and the Flying Basket
- The Antmolly Birds
- The King of the Crows
- The Night of Four Times
- The Little Milleress
- The Thirteen Flies
- The Handsome Apprentice
- The Small Men and the Weaver
- Tam and Tessa
- The Snake Monster
- The Young Shepherd
- The Prince of the Seven Golden Cows
- The Sword of the Stone
- The Son of the King of Spain
- The Magic Wand
- The Nine White Sheep
See also
- French mythologyFrench mythologyThe mythologies in present-day France encompass the mythology of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, and other peoples living in France, those ancient stories about divine or heroic beings that these particular cultures believed to be true and that often use supernatural events or characters to...
- Manning-Sanders tales from France