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The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale / retold by Arthur Ransome ; pictures by Uri Shulevitz.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1968]Copyright date: ©1968Description: 48 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Age: Children
  • Educational level: School children
ISBN:
  • 9780374324421
  • 0374324425
  • 0241017882
  • 9780241017883
  • 9781435207462
  • 1435207467
  • 0374424381
  • 9780374424381
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 398.21
LOC classification:
  • PZ8.R174 Fo 1968
NLM classification:
  • 398.21 Ran
Other classification:
  • I561.85
  • coll6
Awards:
  • Caldecott Medal, 1969
Summary: When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Children's Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt Juvenile Books (MAIN level) JUVE PZ 8 .R174 Fo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 7852

Art techniques used: Pen and brush in black and colored inks. Black line drawings with bright ink coloring.

"Originally published in 1916 as part of [the author's] Old Peter's Russian tales."

When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.

Grade K-3.

360L Lexile.

Decoding indicator: 50 (middle) Semantic indicator: 50 (middle) Syntactic indicator: 40 (middle) Structure indicator: 80 (high) Lexile.

Accelerated Reader LG 4.7 1.0.

Reading Counts RC: 4.8 L810: 3.

Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 4.7 1 Quiz 18671 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.

Caldecott Medal, 1969

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