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Duffy and the Devil Hardback - 1973

by Harve Zemach

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"Duffy and the Devil" was a popular play in Cornwall in the nineteenth century, performed at the Christmas season by groups of young people who went from house to house. The Zemachs have interpreted the folk tale which the play dramatized, recognizable as a version of the widespread Rumpelstiltskin story. Its main themes are familiar, but the character and details of this picture book are entirely Cornish, as robust and distinctive as the higgledy-piggledy, cliff-hanging villages that dot England's southwestern coast from Penzance to Land's End.
The language spoken by the Christmas players was a rich mixture of local English dialect and Old Cornish (similar to Welsh and Gaelic), and something of this flavor is preserved in Harve Zemach's retelling. Margot Zemach's pen-and-wash illustrations combine a refined sense of comedy with telling observation of character, felicitous drawing with decorative richness, to a degree that surpasses her own past accomplishments. "Duffy and the Devil" is a 1973 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1974 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books, and the winner of the 1974 Caldecott Medal.

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  • Title Duffy and the Devil
  • Author Harve Zemach
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1973
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780374318871 / 0374318875
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.7 x 8.8 x 0.38 in (27.18 x 22.35 x 0.97 cm)
  • Age range 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 860
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Folklore - England, Folklore - Cornwall (England: County)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 72081491
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209
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