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Duffy And The Devil By Harve & Margot Zemach For Ages 5 to 8 Large Paperback Book Vintage 1986
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Duffy And The Devil: By Harve & Margot Zemach!
1986 Softcover Book, in very good condition, name inside book. 40 pages, A Caldecott Medal Book. For ages 5 to 8.
•Title: Duffy And The Devil
•Retold By: Harve Zemach
•Pictures By: Margot Zemach
•1986 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
•Format: Softcover Book (10 1/2"L x 8 1/2"W)
•Pages: 40
•Condition: Very Good
Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted this folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy, cliff-hanging villages the dot England's southwestern coast from Penzance to Lands End.
The language spoken by the Christmas players was a rich mixture of local English dialect and old Cornish (similar to Welsh and Gaelic), and something of this flavor is preserved in Harve Zemach's retelling. Margot Zemach's pen and wash illustrations combine a refined sense of comedy with telling and observation of character, felicitous drawing with decorative richness, to a degree that surpasses her own past accomplishments.
1986 Softcover Book, in very good condition, name inside book. 40 pages, A Caldecott Medal Book. For ages 5 to 8.
•Title: Duffy And The Devil
•Retold By: Harve Zemach
•Pictures By: Margot Zemach
•1986 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
•Format: Softcover Book (10 1/2"L x 8 1/2"W)
•Pages: 40
•Condition: Very Good
Duffy and the Devil was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted this folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy, cliff-hanging villages the dot England's southwestern coast from Penzance to Lands End.
The language spoken by the Christmas players was a rich mixture of local English dialect and old Cornish (similar to Welsh and Gaelic), and something of this flavor is preserved in Harve Zemach's retelling. Margot Zemach's pen and wash illustrations combine a refined sense of comedy with telling and observation of character, felicitous drawing with decorative richness, to a degree that surpasses her own past accomplishments.
