Bibliography

The following is a partial list of sources we used when retelling traditional folktales. We are not professional folklorists, and we are not endorsing any particular version of any of these tales as the "definitive" version. These stories mutated as oral tradition, and all writers who recorded them brought something of their own time period and personal outlook to the retelling. We would like to express our gratitude to previous authors who compiled these stories.

Ausubel, Nathan, ed. A Treasury of Jewish Folklore. Crown Publishers, New York, © 1948.

Bushnaq, Inea, ed. Arab Folktales. Pantheon Books, New York, 1986.

Courlander, Harold, ed. A Treasury of African Folklore. Marlowe & Company, New York, 1996.

Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. The Noonday Press, New York, © 1948.

Henderson, Harold G., ed. Tales From the Japanese Storytellers, as collected in the Ho-Dan-Zo by Post Wheeler. Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, © 1965.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior. Vintage International, 1989.

Ozaki, Yei Theodora, ed. Japanese Fairy Tales. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1903.

Squire, Charles, Celtic Myths and Legends. Gramercy Books, New York, 1994. (Originally titled Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance.)

Tyler, Royall, ed. Japanese Tales. Pantheon Books, New York, 1987.

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