title: The Silver Treasure: Myths and Legends of the World
author:  Geraldine McCaughrean 
description: Grade 4 Up. These tales are truly marvels?in both their meaningful content and in the teller's lyrical mastery of language. "The Harp of Dagda" is representative of the selections: it has a plot laced with adventure, a larger-than-life hero, a touch of magic, and an underlying message (here, about the power of art, the "web of captured dreams"). World culture has been ransacked for these valuables, mostly unknown (like the Hawaiian pig-faced god who courts the fire goddess, Pele, by slanging her in an insult contest), but even the known are so artfully retold that Rip Van Winkle and Sir Patrick Spens are given a new lease on life. The pictures are lively, amusing vignettes that do not compete with the superior text. A lapse in the source notes for a King Arthur story moves the Saxons back a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 500 B.C. However, this criticism is an insignificant speck of tarnish on a truly gleaming collection.?Patricia Lothrop Green, St. George's School, Newport, RI<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Silver Enchantress
  
  
  ### Dark Lords and Dangerous Ladies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Patricia Rice
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Silver Enchantress
  
  
  **Patricia Rice**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1988, 2016 Patricia Rice
  
  
  First Publication: 1988 New American Library
  
  
  Book View Café: 2016
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portion
  thereof, in any form.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people,
  or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and
  incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to
  actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Published by Rice Enterprises, Dana Point, CA, an affiliate of Book View Café
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  Cover design by Killion Group
  
  
  
  
  
  