Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines

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Title: Legends of New Caledonia: A Collection of Legends from the Isle of Pines
Editor: Jean-Claude Staudt
Translator: Hilary Roots
Illustrators: Island children
Publisher: Sitmar Cruises
Year: 1984
Country: New Caledonia (colonial collectivity of France)
31 pages

This collection of folk tales from New Caledonia may be illustrated by children, but it is not for children with delicate sensibilities. The stories have not been sanitized to make them less grim (or Grimm). People are eaten, animals chopped up, and in one case, a monster is defeated by a mighty enema blast.

A fun little collection if you can get hold of a copy. Color paintings by children illustrate the sometimes-grisly text.