Table of Contents

Introduction by Renee Watson

MULHA: A South African Tale

THE HUNTER MAIDEN: A Zuni Tale from the American Southwest

ELSA AND THE EVIL WIZARD: A Swedish Tale

MARIA MOREVNA: A Russian Tale

DUFFY AND THE DEVIL: A Cornish Tale

LANVAL AND THE LADY TRIAMOR: A Breton/Celtic Tale

BENDING WILLOW: An American Indian Tale

FINN MAGIC: A Scandinavian Tale

THE OLD WOMAN AND THE RICE CAKES: A Japanese Tale

THE HUSBAND WHO STAYED AT HOME: A Norwegian Tale

SCHEHERAZADE RETOLD: A Persian Tale

SUGGESTED READING

Promotional Information

Digital ARCs will be available on Edelweiss and by request by mid-May 2017.

Finished copies will be mailed to the following national print and online media outlets:

Parenting: Parenting; Parents; The Stir (CafeMom); Well Family (New York Times blog); Just Mommies; Brooklyn Parent; Washington Parent Online; Working Mother

Children's books: Brain Pickings; All the Wonders; The Plot Bunny; Design of the Picture Book; Big Book Little Book; The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Mundie Kids; Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Trades: Publisher's Weekly; Booklist; Kirkus; Library Journal; School Library Journal; CHOICE; EarlyWord; The Horn Book Magazine; ForeWord; Shelf Awareness

The launch event for The Hunter Maiden will be a bookstore reading event that will be part of the Drag Queen Story Hour series, featuring a local drag queen at an independent bookstore.

About the Author

Ethel Johnston Phelps (1914-1984) held a master's degree in medieval literature, coedited a Ricardian journal, and published several articles on fifteenth-century subjects. She compiled two anthologies of feminist folktales from around the world, Tatterhood and The Maid of the North.

Renée Watson’s books include This Side of Home, nominated for the Best Fiction for Young Adults by the ALA; Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills, nominated for the NAACP Image Award in children’s literature; and A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, featured on NBC Nightly News. She is on the Council of Writers for the National Writing Project and is a team member of We Need Diverse Books. She currently teaches courses on writing for children at University of New Haven and Pine Manor College. In the summer of 2016, she launched I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts. She also launched the #LangstonsLegacy Campaign to raise funds to lease the Harlem brownstone where Langston Hughes lived and created during the last twenty years of his life.

Suki Boynton is an artist, illustrator, and the senior graphic designer at the Feminist Press. She is a graduate of Connecticut College with a BA in art history and has a degree in graphic design from the Art Institute of Charleston, SC. She currently lives in Newark, NJ.