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The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale

1968

Format:	Book
Author:	Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967, author.
Title:	The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale / retold by Arthur Ransome ; pictures by Uri Shulevitz.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1968] ©1968
Description:	48 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Summary:	When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
Target Audience Note:	Grade K-3. 360L Lexile. Decoding indicator: 50 (middle) Semantic indicator: 50 (middle) Syntactic indicator: 40 (middle) Structure indicator: 80 (high) Lexile.
Subjects:	Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. Folklore -- Russia.
Genre:	Folk tales.
Other Author:	Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-2025 illustrator.
Other Title:	Caldecott medal, 1969.
Notes:	Art techniques used: Pen and brush in black and colored inks. Black line drawings with bright ink coloring. "Originally published in 1916 as part of [the author's] Old Peter's Russian tales." Accelerated Reader LG 4.7 1.0. Reading Counts RC: 4.8 L810: 3. Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 4.7 1 SD Quiz 18671 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available. Caldecott Medal, 1969
LCCN:	68054105
ISBN:	0374324425 0241017882 9780241017883 9781435207462 1435207467 9780374424381 9780374324421 0374324425 0374424381
Other Number:	305915
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	33081
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Call Number:	jp Ransome

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