The Three Riddles

by Nina Jaffe

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553346490
• ISBN13: 9780553346497
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The swiftest thing in the wold

A king asked his miller, hunter and gamekeeper to solve three riddles, promising whoever solved it a bag of gold. What is the swiftest thing in the world?What is the fattest thing in the world?What is the dearest thing in the world?The gamekeeper and hunter failed the test and were banished. The miller's daughter solved the riddles, and when he returned to the king with her answers, he was rewarded and asked to have his daughter solve three more. She was to come to to the kingneither dressed nor undressedneither riding nor walkingand bearing a gift that was not a gift.How did she do it? If you can't solve the riddles, perhaps you should get the book. Alyssa A. Lappen