by Michael Rosen · Walker Books Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780744521931
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«South and North, East and West» is the children's story anthology edited by Michael Rosen, published by Walker Books Ltd in hardback (96 pages, in English).
Collects 25 stories from different cultures: fairies from the Middle East, creation tales from Brazil, fables from Africa and Indonesia, folk tales from Greece and Cyprus, and ghost stories from Jamaica and Vietnam. Includes full-colour illustrations by 22 artists, and proceeds from sales go to Oxfam self-help projects.
Published in 1992 to mark Oxfam's 50th anniversary, with an introduction by Woody Goldberg.
Suitable for children and young readers, ideal for discovering traditional stories from around the world.
Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written more than 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.
