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The Magic of Stories

Central Idea:

Traditional stories are told to help people make sense of the world and to teach values that are still important today.

An Inquiry Into:

  • Why people tell stories
  • The characteristic elements of traditional stories
  • What traditional stories teach us

RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT THIS UNIT:

Non-Fiction Books:

Call Number Author Title
398.2 AAR Aardema, Verna How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck : A Tale from the Akamba of Kenya
398.2 BAC Backstein, Karen The Blind Men and the Elephant
398.2 BIE Bierhorst, John Doctor Coyote : A Native American Aesop's Fables
398.2 CIT City Mouse-Country Mouse and Two More Mouse Tales from Aesop
398.2 GOB Goble, Paul Iktomi and the Buffalo Skull : a Plains Indian Story
398.2 HAM Hamilton, Virginia A Ring of Tricksters : Animal Tales from North America, the West Indies, and Africa
398.2 HIC Hickox, Rebecca Zorro and Quwi : Tales of a Trickster Guinea Pig
398.2 KHE Kherdian, David Feathers and Tails : Animal Fables from Around the World
398.2 MAY Mayo, Gretchen Big Trouble for Tricky Rabbit!
398.2 MAY Mayo, Margaret When the World Was Young : Creation and Pourquoi Tales
398.2 MCG McGovern, Ann Aesop's Fables
398.2 MIL Miles, Betty The Tortoise and the Hare
398.2 NOR Norman, Howard A. Trickster and the Fainting Birds
398.2 ROS Ross, Gayle How Rabbit Tricked Otter : And Other Cherokee Trickster Stories
398.2 TAL Tales of South Asia
398.2 TAL Tales of the Caribbean
398.2 TRI Trickster Tales : Forty Folk Stories from Around the World
398.24 AES The Aesop for Children
398.24 ANN Anno, Mitsumasa Anno's Aesop : A Book of Fables
398.24 JOH Johnston, Tony The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
398.24 KNU Knutson, Barbara How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots : A Swahili Tale of Friendship
398.24 KNU Knutson, Barbara Sungura and Leopard : A Swahili Trickster Tale
398.24 KNU Knutson, Barbara Why the Crab Has No head : An African Tale
398.24 LOB Lobel, Arnold Fables
398.24 MCD McDermott, Gerald Coyote : A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest
398.24 ROS Rosen, Michael How the Animals Got Their Colors : Animal Myths from Around the World
398.24 STE Stevens, Janet Coyote Steals the Blanket : A Ute Tale
398.2 STE Stevens, Janet The Tortoise and the Hare : An Aesop Fable
398.24 UNT Untermeyer, Louis Æsop's Fables
398.24 WHI White, Anne Terry Aesop's Fables

Fiction Books:

Call Number Author Title
E AAR Aardema, Verna Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears : A West African Tale
E AES Aesop's Fables
E BRU Bruchac, Joseph The First Strawberries : A Cherokee Story
E CAR Carle, Eric Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm
E DAY Dayrell, Elphinstone Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky : an African Folktale
E DEP De Paola, Tomie The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
E FOX Fox, Mem Feathers and Fools
E GAL Galdone, Paul The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
E IRB Irbinskas, Heather How Jackrabbit Got His Very Long Ears
E KIM Kimmel, Eric A. Anansi Goes Fishing
E KIP Kipling, Rudyard The Beginning of the Armadillos
E KNU Knutson, Barbara Love and Roast Chicken : A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains
E MCD McDermott, Gerald Papagayo, the Mischief Maker
E MCD McDermott, Gerald Zomo the Rabbit : A Trickster Tale from West Africa
E SAL Salley, Coleen Why Epossumondas Has no Hair on His Tail
E WAL Walker, Richard The Barefoot Book of Trickster Tales
F KIP Kipling, Rudyard How the Camel Got His Hump
F KIP Kipling, Rudyard How the Whale Got His Throat

AV Materials:

Call Number Title
VID 812 RUD Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

Websites:

Aesop's Fables: Traditional and Modern (UMass Amherst)

Templates:

Fable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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