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YOUTH WITHOUT AGE

From
Turkish Fairy Tales and Folktales,
by Dr. Ignacz Kunos, translated from the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain (London: A. H. Bullen, 1901), pp. 260-75.

 
THE HAUNTED VIOLIN

From
Sefer Hasidim
(The Book of the Pious), attributed to Rabbi Judah the Pious. Parma edition, Hebrew manuscript de Rossi 33 (Berlin: Yehuda Wistynezki, 1891).

THE EVIL SEA GHOST

From
Trold (Trolls
) by Jonas Lie (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1891) as found in
Samlede Digterverker
(
Collected Works
) of Jonas Lie, Vol. VIII (Kristiania and Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1921), pp. 16-25. Translation by James Skurdall.

 
THE PEASANTS' REVENGE

From
Folk Tales from Many Lands
, retold by Lilian Gask (New York: T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1910), pp. 186-92.

 
THE WIZARD'S APPRENTICE

From
Yiddishe Folkmayses
(Yiddish Folktales), edited by Yehuda L. Cahan (Vilna: Farlag Yidishe Folklor-Bibliotek, 1931). Told by Moshe Zimnick, who heard it from his grandfather in Belz. A Yiddish variant from Bessarabia is found in “Marchen und Schwanke,” collected by Leo Wiener, in
Mitteilugen zur judischen Volkstunde,
vol. 10, no. 2 (1902), pp. 104-07. An oral variant is Israel Folktale Archives 6849, collected by Dov Noy from Isaac Auzon of Morocco.

ARIELLE NORTH OLSON and her coauthor, Howard Schwartz, wrote
Ask the Bones
(Viking), winner of Pennsylvania's Keystone Young Adult Book Award. She has also written three picture books:
Hurry Home, Grandma!
,
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
, and
Noah's Cats and the Devil's Fire
. For twenty-six years, she reviewed children's books for the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
. Ms. Olson lives in Webster Groves, Missouri, and in Oceanside, Oregon, with her husband, Clarence Olson. They have three children—Randy, Christy, and Jens—and seven grandchildren—Caity, Lindsey, Ian, Rose, Laura, Eric, and Miranda.

 
HOWARD SCHWARTZ, a noted folklorist, is the author of ten children's books, including
The Diamond Tree
,
Next Year in Jerusalem
,
The Day the Rabbi Disappeared
, and
Before You Were Born
. His books have won many awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society, the Sydney Taylor Book Award, and the Koret Prize. He teaches at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife, Tsila, a calligrapher. They have three children—Shira, Nati, and Miriam—and two grandchildren—Ari and Ava.

 
E. M. GIST has been a working professional artist since 1998. He began his career designing video games for Gratuitous Games and is now an art teacher at Watts Atelier of the Arts. Gist lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and muse and their dogs.