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An award-winning author and National Book Award nominee brings a celebration of mother and daughters around the world Jane Yolen has long been hailed as one of the finest authors in storytelling today. Her bestselling children's books, along with her anthology Favorite Folktales Around the... read more

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The wife of a rich man fell sick, and she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee."

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  1. Jane Yolen (Editor)
  2. Heidi E. Y. Stemple (Editor)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0670889075
Page Count: 304

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