Folktales Categories - Writing for Children
Folktales can be divided into broad categories. Sometimes there is some overlap between these. Contemporary stories may also contain folktale elements. The House That Jack Built and The Gingerbread Man are well known examples. In a cumulative ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Fun, Foolery, and Folktales
 Fun, Foolery, and Folktales [... more]
$8.90
Buy.com |
Pinhas Sadeh
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales. It draws from both traditional Eastern European literary sources and the vast ... [... more]
Random House |
Castle Hauntings - Folklore
Probably some of the most popular folktales are those to do with hauntings and ghosts and there are no better hauntings than those found in castles which abound with myths and legends of the land. Because most castles were built to last ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Paul Bunyan 20th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow ...
There are plenty of American tall tales. The folktales are fictional stories of men and women who help create America. One of the fictional characters is Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack. Steven Kellogg's Paul Bunyan 20th Anniversary Edition ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Diane Wolkstein
Diane Wolkstein travels throughout the world performing myths and folktales and giving workshops on storytelling. She is the author of twenty-one award-winning books of folklore, including the Sumerian epic and Other Haitian Folktales. Wolkstein ... [... more]
Random House |
Roger Abrahams
Roger D. Abrahams is a former president of the American Folklore Society. Among his most recent books are African Folktales (also availabe in Pantheon paperback), After Africa (with John Szwed, and Singing the Master. Nearly 100 stories from over ... [... more]
Random House |
Multicultural Folktales : Stories to Tell Young Children
Take your students on thrilling journeys around the world through the magic and enjoyment of language and literature. Renowned authors and storytellers Judy Sierra and Robert Kaminski have collected 25 folktales representing the peoples and cultures of [... more]
$2.65
A1 Books |
Richard Ungar
The stories of the fabled village of Chelm and its inhabitants are favorites in Jewish folklore. Newcomer Richard Ungar captures the joyous spirit of these folktales in his words and pictures. The people of Chelm were crazy about the moon and the ... [... more]
Random House |
Folktales of the Jews: Tales from the Sephardic Dispersion
Highly recommended.: In 1909 the Jewish Publication Society published the first volume of Ginzberg's LEGENDS OF THE JEWS, a collection of rabbinic stories still a foundation pick today - here is a gathering of the folktales of ordinary Jewish people - [... more]
$75.00
Amazon.com |
Solomon And the Ant: And Other Jewish Folktales
SOLOMON AND THE ANT: AND OTHER JEWISH FOLKTALES: Much heart has gone into the creation of this handsome book, where 43 gently humorous, Jewish teaching folktales call to be shared aloud. Selections include religious stories, fables, and wisdom, trickster, [... more]
$19.95
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African Folktales (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks, 200.)
Tales from Africa: Here are several dozen folktales from Africa. What's so nice about this book, is that it explores fairytales unknown to most Westerners. However, they are just as complex and as wonderous as those European fairytales we are familiar [... more]
$14.95
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