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The Teacher’s Secret
and Other Folk Tales
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itors: Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter
The Teacher’s Secret
and Other Folk Tales
Retold by Joyce Hannam
Illustrated by Martina Farrow
Joyce Hannam has taught English in several European countries
including Greece, Spain, Turkey and the Czech Republic. She
now lives in York, in the north of England, and works mainly
with Japanese and Chinese university students, and business
people from Europe. She has written a number of other stories
for students of English, including The Death of Karen Silkwood
in the Oxford Bookworms Library, and The Curse of the Mummy
in the Dominoes series.
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| room. Women aren't interested in swords.”
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