Tales of a Swiss Grandmother

by Frances Carpenter, Ernest Biéler (Illustrator)

A story of Swiss character and customs that are revealed in age-old tales. Stories include: Around the Great Gray Stove / The Angry Toggeli / The White Snail / The Woodcutter's Daughter / The Three Spinning Women / The Mule's Egg / The Clock That Stuck Out Its Tongue / The Emperor and the Snake / Toggeli's Charcoal / Berthold and the Bears / The Strange Yodelers / The Man Who Was on Fire Behind / The Giant That Made Mountains.

Genres: Folk Tales

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1940

About the author

Frances Aretta Carpenter was born in 1890, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Frank G. Carpenter, a journalist and travel book author. She was educated at Smith College, receiving her BA in 1912. In 1920, she married W. Chapin Huntington, with whom she had two children. Carpenter was well traveled, accompanying her father on his investigate tours as a girl, and her husband on his stints with the United States Foreign Service. Those experiences are reflected in her many children's books, which feature folklore from many parts of the world.

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