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Article: The Brave Little Seamstress. (Fine Folktales).(Book Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
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- April 1, 2003
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By Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Giselle Potter. Atheneum, 2002; 32 pages; $16. (Gr. 2-6).
As she did with Kate and the Beanstalk (Atheneum, 2000), Mary Pope Osborne has turned the main character of a German tale, "The Brave Little Tailor," into a female, and hoorah for that! When a little seamstress kills a swarm of flies, she proudly stitches the words "SEVEN WITH ONE BLOW" on the back of her coat. She outwits first one giant, then two giants, and finally, at the ...