Godfather Death
Publication Information
New York : Viking, 2024.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Added Uniform Title
Summary
A retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale in which a poor fisherman chooses Death to be a godfather to his son.
Notes
"First published in Great Britain by Andersen Press Ltd., 2023."--Page opposite title page.
Adaptation of Der Gevatter Tod, one of the tales in the collection Kinder- und Hausmärchen, first published in 1812.
Subjects
- Folklore > Germany.
- Fairy tales > Germany.
- Poor men > Folklore.
- Death > Folklore.
- Death (Personification) > Folklore.
- Grim Reaper (Symbolic character) > Folklore.
- Avarice > Folklore.
- Poor men > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
- Death > Juvenile fiction.
- Avarice > Juvenile fiction.
- Fairy tales.
- Folklore.
- Greed > Folklore.
- Greed > Fiction.