Full of lively stories, jokes, and games for performance, the book also includes 40 songs with melody and guitar chords. Written by the outstanding practicing folk performer. Includes 44 illustrations.
Intermediate (ages 9-14)
Material appropriate for intermediate age groups
Jump Again! More Adventures Of Brer Rabbit
Continues the lighthearted adventures and antics of the crafty Brer Rabbit
Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
Compilation of tales from Afro-American folklore. Among the storytellers included are Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leadbelly.
Pedro: Fools the Gringo and Other Tales of a Latin American Trickster
This collection of 12 brief Latin American trickster tales is lively and humorous.
Wonder Tales (World Storytelling)
Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.
Jewish Migration
Jewish Migration will look at young migrants from pogrom-era Russia to the USA, at World War II era escapes to safe countries, at the Kindertransport to England, and at post-war resettlement in Palestine, and contemporary Russian Jews arriving in Israel today.
The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women
A collection of twenty traditional tales from various parts of the world, each of whose main character is a strong and resourceful woman.
The Maid of the North
The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman’s right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps’s heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, courageous and smart. This type of heroine is not easily found in most collections; in most traditional folk and fairy tales we encounter women are portrayed as being good, obedient, submissive, and, of course, beautiful. These women—and girls—are resourceful; they take action to solve a problem and use cleverness or shrewd common sense to solve the dilemmas they face.
The tales themselves are part of an oral tradition that document a generation according to the values of the time. Phelps has given these older tales a fresh, contemporary retelling for a new generation of readers, young and old. She shapes each story—adding or omitting details—to reflect her sense of a feminist folk or fairy tale.
The twenty-one tales collected represent a wide variety of countries; approximately seventeen ethnic cultures from North America to Europe to Asia tell a story in which women play a leading or crucial role in the story.
Wisdom Tales From Around The World: Fifty Gems Of Story And Wisdom For Such Diverse Traditions As Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, African, And Native American (World Storytelling)
A collection of traditional stories from around the world, reflecting the cumulative wisdom of Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American cultures.
Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World
Humans of all eras and cultures have lived with fear: of becoming jaguar prey, of being besieged by Vikings, or of nuclear holocaust. Folktales help us transform this fear into action, into solutions, into hope. Kathleen Ragan has scoured the globe and collected these 64 tales that respond to fear in its wide variety of incarnations. From the old Japanese woman who tricks the tengu monster to the bluebird that uses the Chinook wind to teach her mother compassion, Outfoxing Fear is a collection of positive, even utopian, folktales arranged thematically around topics such as the nature of fear and courage, the importance of laughter, and the need for hope.