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From: Robin Gibson <gibsonr_at_denison.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:24:36 -0400
In our local elementary school (central Ohio) fairytales are the focus of a unit in second grade and in kindergarten. I presented booktalk earlier this year in second grade and the books I used are listed below.The teacher combined this unit with geography, so I introduced stories from each continent. (It is Europe-dominated and I always welcome suggestions and am looking for more/different/better books to include. This list is also not comprehensive at all, but focuses on the age level and other considerations.) I brought a map and referred to it at various times. We talked about how cultures often cross political boundary lines/don't correspond to the borders drawn on the map and so stories don't necessarily only come from one country or one place. I started with Paul Fleischman's /Glass Slipper/Golden Sandal /and encouraged the students to find the countries where each story is from on the map later (which I'm told some of them did.) Like Beth I read /Head, Body, Legs/ which the children absolutely loved
-- so silly that it has great child appeal.
In kindergarten the students spend several weeks studying nursery rhymes and fairy tales. They took a field trip a few weeks ago to the high school where the drama class performed two tales for them. Here is the description from the school newsletter: Mrs. S ---'s drama classes did a
unit on fairy tales and then presented their versions to the children. The 2 Pigs was funny with its pie ending! Sleeping Beauty captured the children's attention. This is a wonderful experience for the children. They sat in the theatre for productions that were perfect in length for their age. The children followed up with thank you letters and pictures that were sent to the drama classes. This descripton indicates that the high school students study Fairy Tales as well. In my son's kindergarten class, the teacher introduces the original tale first and then fractured fairy tale versions afterwards so that the children are familiar with the tale first (/The Three Little Pigs/ then The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, Cinderella before Dinorella, etc.) They also made their own fairy tale book using the SuperWhy Web site from PBS Kids. The success of the SuperWhy show (all episodes based on fairy tales and main characters are fairy tale characters -- Princess Pea, Red, from Little Red Riding Hood etc.)
also indicates the continuing popularity of fairy tales. So I'm not sure what's up with publishers???
happy reading, Robin
-----------------------------------------
Robin L. Gibson GSLIS Sharing Success Student, U of Illinois gibson17_at_illinois.edu
* All*
/Glass Slippers, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella/ by Paul Fleischman
*Europe***
/Little Mouse / (Belgium, Netherlands, Russia) by Lida Dijkstra
Austria
/Dragon Feathers /by Andrej Dugin and Olga Dugina
England
/St.// George & the Dragon/ by Margaret Hodges /Arthur & the Sword /by Robert Sabuda /The Loathsome Dragon/ by David Wiesner /Princess Furball/ by Charlotte Huck
France
/Cinderella/ by Barbara McClintock /Toads and Diamonds/ by Charlotte Huck /Puss in Boots/ retold by Steve Light
Germany (& France)
/Rapunzel/ by Paul O. Zelinsky /The Brave Little Seamstress /by Mary Pope Osborne
Ireland
/Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin/ by Jessica Souhami /Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk/ by Gerald McDermott
Italy
/Papa Gatto/ by Ruth Sanderson /Petrosinella/ (Naples) by Giambattista Basile
Norway
/East o’the Sun and West o’the Moon/ by P.J. Lynch
Russia
/Salt/ by Jane Langton /The Black Geese : A Baba Yaga Story from Russia/ retold by Alison Lurie /The Frog Princess /retold by Elizabeth Isele
Wales
/The Cow on the Roof/ by Eric Maddern
*Near/Middle East*
Turkey
/The Hungry Coat/ by Demi
Persia (Iran)
/Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves/ ill. By Margaret Early /The Tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp/ retold by Eric Kimmel
Armenia
/The Golden Bracelet/ retold by David Kherdian
*Africa*
Cameroon
/Sense// Pass// King/ by Katrin Tchana
Egypt
/The Egyptian Cinderella/ by Shirley Climo
Kenya (Masai)
/The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks/ by Verna Aardema
Liberia
/Head, Body, Legs/ by Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert
West Africa
/Too Much Talk / by Angel Shelf Medearis /Ananse and the Lizard/ by Pat Cummings (Ghana)
Zimbabwe
/Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters / by John Steptoe
*Asia**//*
China
/The Beggar’s Magic/ by Margaret & Raymond Chang /Mouse Match /by Ed Young
India
/Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat /by Meilo So
Indonesia
/The Gift of the Crocodile/: /A Cinderella Story/ by Judy Sierra
Japan
/Three Samurai Cats/ by Eric Kimmel /The Greatest of All /by Eric Kimmel /The Silver Charm /by Robert D. San Souci
Korea
/The Rabbit’s Escape/ by Suzanne Crowder Han
*Middle East*
Turkey
/The Hungry Coat/ by Demi
Persia (Iran)
/Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves/ ill. By Margaret Early /The Tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp/ retold by Eric Kimmel
Armenia
/The Golden Bracelet/ retold by David Kherdian
***United States*
/Jump On Over! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and his Family/ by Joel Chandler Harris adapted by Van Dyke Parks/ When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing/ (Alabama) by Virginia Hamilton /Gluskabe and the Four Wishes /retold by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki; Native Am of New England) /The Stolen Sun: A Story of Native Alaska /by Amanda Hall
* Central & South America, Carribean*
/Senor Cat’s Romance and other Stories from Latin America/ by Lucia M. Gonzalez
Martinique
/Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella/ by Robert D. SanSouci
Argentina/S. America
/The Cook and the King/ by Maria Cristina Brusca
Peru/Bolivia/Andes
/Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains /by Barbara Knutson
*Australia***
* */A Twist in the Tail: Animal Stories from Around the World /by Mary Hoffman includes “The Animal Who Couldn’t Make Up its Mind” /Tails Alive! /By Susan Milord includes “Lighting the Way”
Received on Sun 21 Mar 2010 09:24:36 PM CDT
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:24:36 -0400
In our local elementary school (central Ohio) fairytales are the focus of a unit in second grade and in kindergarten. I presented booktalk earlier this year in second grade and the books I used are listed below.The teacher combined this unit with geography, so I introduced stories from each continent. (It is Europe-dominated and I always welcome suggestions and am looking for more/different/better books to include. This list is also not comprehensive at all, but focuses on the age level and other considerations.) I brought a map and referred to it at various times. We talked about how cultures often cross political boundary lines/don't correspond to the borders drawn on the map and so stories don't necessarily only come from one country or one place. I started with Paul Fleischman's /Glass Slipper/Golden Sandal /and encouraged the students to find the countries where each story is from on the map later (which I'm told some of them did.) Like Beth I read /Head, Body, Legs/ which the children absolutely loved
-- so silly that it has great child appeal.
In kindergarten the students spend several weeks studying nursery rhymes and fairy tales. They took a field trip a few weeks ago to the high school where the drama class performed two tales for them. Here is the description from the school newsletter: Mrs. S ---'s drama classes did a
unit on fairy tales and then presented their versions to the children. The 2 Pigs was funny with its pie ending! Sleeping Beauty captured the children's attention. This is a wonderful experience for the children. They sat in the theatre for productions that were perfect in length for their age. The children followed up with thank you letters and pictures that were sent to the drama classes. This descripton indicates that the high school students study Fairy Tales as well. In my son's kindergarten class, the teacher introduces the original tale first and then fractured fairy tale versions afterwards so that the children are familiar with the tale first (/The Three Little Pigs/ then The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, Cinderella before Dinorella, etc.) They also made their own fairy tale book using the SuperWhy Web site from PBS Kids. The success of the SuperWhy show (all episodes based on fairy tales and main characters are fairy tale characters -- Princess Pea, Red, from Little Red Riding Hood etc.)
also indicates the continuing popularity of fairy tales. So I'm not sure what's up with publishers???
happy reading, Robin
-----------------------------------------
Robin L. Gibson GSLIS Sharing Success Student, U of Illinois gibson17_at_illinois.edu
* All*
/Glass Slippers, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella/ by Paul Fleischman
*Europe***
/Little Mouse / (Belgium, Netherlands, Russia) by Lida Dijkstra
Austria
/Dragon Feathers /by Andrej Dugin and Olga Dugina
England
/St.// George & the Dragon/ by Margaret Hodges /Arthur & the Sword /by Robert Sabuda /The Loathsome Dragon/ by David Wiesner /Princess Furball/ by Charlotte Huck
France
/Cinderella/ by Barbara McClintock /Toads and Diamonds/ by Charlotte Huck /Puss in Boots/ retold by Steve Light
Germany (& France)
/Rapunzel/ by Paul O. Zelinsky /The Brave Little Seamstress /by Mary Pope Osborne
Ireland
/Mrs. McCool and the Giant Cuhullin/ by Jessica Souhami /Tim O’Toole and the Wee Folk/ by Gerald McDermott
Italy
/Papa Gatto/ by Ruth Sanderson /Petrosinella/ (Naples) by Giambattista Basile
Norway
/East o’the Sun and West o’the Moon/ by P.J. Lynch
Russia
/Salt/ by Jane Langton /The Black Geese : A Baba Yaga Story from Russia/ retold by Alison Lurie /The Frog Princess /retold by Elizabeth Isele
Wales
/The Cow on the Roof/ by Eric Maddern
*Near/Middle East*
Turkey
/The Hungry Coat/ by Demi
Persia (Iran)
/Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves/ ill. By Margaret Early /The Tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp/ retold by Eric Kimmel
Armenia
/The Golden Bracelet/ retold by David Kherdian
*Africa*
Cameroon
/Sense// Pass// King/ by Katrin Tchana
Egypt
/The Egyptian Cinderella/ by Shirley Climo
Kenya (Masai)
/The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks/ by Verna Aardema
Liberia
/Head, Body, Legs/ by Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert
West Africa
/Too Much Talk / by Angel Shelf Medearis /Ananse and the Lizard/ by Pat Cummings (Ghana)
Zimbabwe
/Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters / by John Steptoe
*Asia**//*
China
/The Beggar’s Magic/ by Margaret & Raymond Chang /Mouse Match /by Ed Young
India
/Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat /by Meilo So
Indonesia
/The Gift of the Crocodile/: /A Cinderella Story/ by Judy Sierra
Japan
/Three Samurai Cats/ by Eric Kimmel /The Greatest of All /by Eric Kimmel /The Silver Charm /by Robert D. San Souci
Korea
/The Rabbit’s Escape/ by Suzanne Crowder Han
*Middle East*
Turkey
/The Hungry Coat/ by Demi
Persia (Iran)
/Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves/ ill. By Margaret Early /The Tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp/ retold by Eric Kimmel
Armenia
/The Golden Bracelet/ retold by David Kherdian
***United States*
/Jump On Over! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and his Family/ by Joel Chandler Harris adapted by Van Dyke Parks/ When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing/ (Alabama) by Virginia Hamilton /Gluskabe and the Four Wishes /retold by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki; Native Am of New England) /The Stolen Sun: A Story of Native Alaska /by Amanda Hall
* Central & South America, Carribean*
/Senor Cat’s Romance and other Stories from Latin America/ by Lucia M. Gonzalez
Martinique
/Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella/ by Robert D. SanSouci
Argentina/S. America
/The Cook and the King/ by Maria Cristina Brusca
Peru/Bolivia/Andes
/Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes Mountains /by Barbara Knutson
*Australia***
* */A Twist in the Tail: Animal Stories from Around the World /by Mary Hoffman includes “The Animal Who Couldn’t Make Up its Mind” /Tails Alive! /By Susan Milord includes “Lighting the Way”
Received on Sun 21 Mar 2010 09:24:36 PM CDT
