American Fairy Tales
- ISBN-10
- 0486236439
- ISBN-13
- 9780486236438
- Series
- American Fairy Tales
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-06-01
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Authors
- Lyman Frank Baum, N. P. Hall
Description
A collection of twelve fantasies with the United States as their setting features such stories as The Queen of Quok, The Laughing Hippopotamus, The Dummy That Lived, and The Capture of Father Time
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