Duffy and the devil
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.
Level 4.9, 0.5 Points
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Grouping Title | duffy and the devil |
Grouping Author | zemach harve |
Grouping Category | book |
Last Grouping Update | 2019-03-13 04:50:30AM |
Last Indexed | 2019-12-13 04:48:20AM |
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id | af041deb-73f7-9b3b-c3e8-3862c3cef8e0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
isbn | 9780374418977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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literary_form | Non Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
literary_form_full | Non Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
local_callnumber_addison | jAWARD CALDECOT 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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primary_isbn | 9780374418977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publishDate | 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Caldecott Medal Caldecott Medal book, 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Duffy and the devil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Duffy and the devil Zemach, Harve. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Duffy and the devil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Caldecott Medal |