Yolen, Jane. 2003. MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. Florida: Harcourt. ISBN # 0152163913
MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD is a wonderful collection of folktales focusing on male heroes. These stories let boys, and girls as well, know that strength comes from their minds more powerfully that from their muscles. Jane Yolen lets the reader know this specifically in an open letter to her sons and grandsons in an introduction to the tales. The moral and origin of each tale is stated with the title. These tales come from many places around the world including China, Afghanistan, Native America, Ireland, and Israel. These stories are a wonderful way to let children see that using their brains is a good thing universally. At the end of the book Yolen has included a section which gives interesting background information on all the stories. A bibliography is also included.
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