From: Karen Wendt <bewendt>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:04:00 -0600

I will be doing a family storytime on Monday evening. It does not have a theme as I usually do. I will be using whatever picture books and poems I want to share. I will be using several of the recent Award winning books including The Hunterman and the Cro codile. I look forward to getting the reactions of those attending. There is usually a a group that spans the ages in attendance.


I was considering finding a way to act out the story in addition to reading it and sharing the illustrations-hoping to find a way to involve the group. Have not yet decided what to do.


I do appreciate the moral applied at the end of the story that from that time forward Donso remembers the lessons he learned from the cow, the horse, the chicken, etc. The importance of living in harmony with nature. We do alot of wilderness canoe campin g and backpacking and find it extremely refreshing, living so close to the earth and so near the life of the woods and water and sky. One thing that I need to get past with The Hunterman story is my difficulty in placing the principal of "return evil for evil to no one" and "as far as it depends upon you, be peaceable with all men" along side the animals refusal to help Donso. Is it a matter of one lesson at a time?

Karen

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Received on Wed 25 Feb 1998 11:04:00 AM CST