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Urashima and The Turtle: Classic Folk Stories and Traditional Fairy Tales - cover

Urashima and The Turtle: Classic Folk Stories and Traditional Fairy Tales

Melanie Voland, Treehouse Books

Publisher: Treehouse Books

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Summary

A kind young fisherman saves the life of a turtle, and is rewarded with a wonderful, magical new life under the sea... But one day, he starts to worry about his old life and the people he left behind. A famous ancient Japanese, fantasy, time-travel legend, considered to be one of the very first sci-fi stories. This is book 6 in our Classic Folk Stories and Traditional Fairy Tales series.
Available since: 04/16/2022.

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