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Book

The skull : a Tyrolean folktale

Call Number

  • J 398.2 KLAS (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023.

Physical Description

105 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is."--

Notes

"The original retelling of this tale was found in A book of ghosts and goblins, written by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques (New York: Dutton, 1969)."

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