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Tell Me a Riddle Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

For other works by Olsen, please see: Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974), Silences (1978), Mothers to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: Mothers on Mothering: A Daybook and Reader (1989), Mothers & Daughters: That Special Quality: An Exploration in Photographs with Estelle Jussim (1995), The Riddle of Life And Death with Leo Tolstoy (2007) and Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I and Other Works (2013).

For thematically relevant work by other women authors: Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley, The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, My Baby First Birthday by Jenny Zhang, and Obasan by Joy Kogawa.

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