Reviews for Gray heroes

The average rating for Gray heroes based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-10 00:00:00 Cesar Maya A fun collection. My favorite tales were the Swedish "Kitta Gray", Japanese "The Old Woman and the Rice Cakes", Finnish "The Magical Words", and Icelandic "My Jon's Soul." I love this passage from Yolen's Introduction: Once the storytellers were the ancients, who like great skin containers, held the wine of story for their communities. They doled it out, sip by sip: history, mystery, lineage, and law. They were both entertainment and enrichment. They carried wisdom in the mouth, adventure on the tongue.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-18 00:00:00 Yamid Gongora This was not my favorite of Jane Yolen's folktale collections, but I still enjoyed it. One thing that struck me was how much I missed the sense of background information about how old people are understood in the various places these stories came from. I didn't care for the language variations she used when writing stories from the United States. Nevertheless, it was a good thing to read as a break from my more academic reading on age.