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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The talking eggs</title>
    <subTitle>A folktale from the American South</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Souci, Robert D. San</namePart>
    <role>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Pinkney , Jerry</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Scholastic</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1989</dateIssued>
    <edition>First Scholastic printing , October 1990</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>32 unnumbered pages :  color illustrations ;  23 x 23 cm . </extent>
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  <abstract>A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>W 
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  <targetAudience>870 
 Lexile AD 
</targetAudience>
  <targetAudience>W 
 Raz-Plus 
</targetAudience>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">retold by Robert D. San Souci : pictures by Jerry Pinkney </note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Fairy tales</topic>
    <topic>Children's Books</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Multicultural</topic>
    <topic>Children's Books</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc"> PZ8.S227 T</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">398.2</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0590441892</identifier>
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