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The tale of Willie Monroe

By Schroeder, Alan & Glass, Andrew

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An adaptation, set in the American South, of an old Japanese folktale in which a powerful wrestler who hopes to win the Emperor's Wrestling Match encounters three exceptionally strong women who train him for success.

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ISBN
978-0-39569-852-5
Publisher
New York : Clarion Books, c1999.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on June 1, 1999

Gr 1-5 The traditional Japanese tall tale, retold by Claus Stamm in Three Strong Women (Viking, 1990; o.p.), is given an Appalachian setting in this rollicking yarn. Willie Monroe, by his own admission the strongest critter in all of Tennessee, decides to enter a Carolina arm-wrestlin, log-stackin, cow-milkin, fie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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