Introduction by Renee Watson
MULHA: A South African Tale
THE HUNTER MAIDEN: A Zuni Tale from the American Southwest
ELSA AND THE EVIL WIZARD: A Swedish Tale
MARIA MOREVNA: A Russian Tale
DUFFY AND THE DEVIL: A Cornish Tale
LANVAL AND THE LADY TRIAMOR: A Breton/Celtic Tale
BENDING WILLOW: An American Indian Tale
FINN MAGIC: A Scandinavian Tale
THE OLD WOMAN AND THE RICE CAKES: A Japanese Tale
THE HUSBAND WHO STAYED AT HOME: A Norwegian Tale
SCHEHERAZADE RETOLD: A Persian Tale
SUGGESTED READING
Digital ARCs will be available on Edelweiss and by request by
mid-May 2017.
Finished copies will be mailed to the following national print and
online media outlets:
Parenting: Parenting; Parents; The Stir (CafeMom); Well Family (New
York Times blog); Just Mommies; Brooklyn Parent; Washington Parent
Online; Working Mother
Children's books: Brain Pickings; All the Wonders; The Plot Bunny;
Design of the Picture Book; Big Book Little Book; The Bulletin of
the Center for Children's Books; Mundie Kids; Seven Impossible
Things Before Breakfast
Trades: Publisher's Weekly; Booklist; Kirkus; Library Journal;
School Library Journal; CHOICE; EarlyWord; The Horn Book Magazine;
ForeWord; Shelf Awareness
The launch event for The Hunter Maiden will be a bookstore reading
event that will be part of the Drag Queen Story Hour series,
featuring a local drag queen at an independent bookstore.
Ethel Johnston Phelps (1914-1984) held a master's degree
in medieval literature, coedited a Ricardian journal, and published
several articles on fifteenth-century subjects. She compiled two
anthologies of feminist folktales from around the world, Tatterhood
and The Maid of the North.
Rene Watson's books include This Side of Home, nominated for
the Best Fiction for Young Adults by the ALA; Harlem's Little
Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills, nominated for the NAACP
Image Award in children's literature; and A Place Where Hurricanes
Happen, featured on NBC Nightly News. She is on the Council of
Writers for the National Writing Project and is a team member of We
Need Diverse Books. She currently teaches courses on writing for
children at University of New Haven and Pine Manor College. In the
summer of 2016, she launched I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit
committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative
arts. She also launched the #LangstonsLegacy Campaign to raise
funds to lease the Harlem brownstone where Langston Hughes lived
and created during the last twenty years of his life.
Suki Boynton is an artist, illustrator, and the senior
graphic designer at the Feminist Press. She is a graduate of
Connecticut College with a BA in art history and has a degree in
graphic design from the Art Institute of Charleston, SC. She
currently lives in Newark, NJ.
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