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Curriculum Collection at Lewis Library: Folktales

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Instructional Strategies

Compilations and General Folk Tales

Chicken Licken/Chicken Little Adaptations

African Folktales

American Folktales

Australian Folktales

Canadian Folktales

Caribbean Folktales

Central Asian/Middle Eastern Folktales

East Asian Folktales

European Folktales

Latin American Folktales

Native American Folktales

Russian Folktales

South Asian Folktales

Southeast Asian Folktales

South American Folktales

African Folktales

Anansi and the Sky Kingdom by Bobby Norfolk; Sherry Norfolk; Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.N766 Anq 2009
Anansi and the Tug O' War by Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Sherry Norfolk (As told by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.N766 Anc 2007
Anansi does the impossible! : an Ashanti tale by Verna Aardema
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .A213 Al 1997
Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby Norfolk; Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Sherry Norfolk
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.N766 Ang 2007
Anansi the Spider: a tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M159 An 1986
The Clever Monkey: a folktale from West Africa by Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Rob Cleveland
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.C5912 Cle 2006
The Clever Monkey Rides Again: a folktale from West Africa by Tom Wrenn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.C5912 Clh 2007
Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .F237 2004
The Magic Tree: a tale from the Congo by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .M159 M3 1973
The Matatu by Eric Walters; Eva Campbell (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .W17129 Mat 2012
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: an African tale by John Steptoe
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8 .S585 Mu 1987
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .N28 2007
Once upon a Time in Ghana. Traditional Ewe Stories Retold in English by Anna Cottrell; Agbotadua Togbi Kumassah
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) GR351.62.E83 C68 2013
Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson; San Artists of the Kuru Art Project in Botswana (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .N43557 Os 2012
Our Story Magic by Gcina Mhlophe
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 M58 Ou 2006
Sungura and Leopard: a Swahili trickster tale by Barbara Knutson
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .K728 Su 1993
Who's in Rabbit's House?: a Masai tale by Verna Aardema
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .A213 Wf 1977
Zomo the Rabbit: a trickster tale from West Africa by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M159 Zo 1992

American Folktales

The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales by Anne Shelby; Paula McArdle (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .S5388 Ad 2007
Coyote: a trickster tale from the American Southwest by Gerald McDermott (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E 78 .S7 M136 1994
The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch by Anne Isaacs; Dan Santat (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.I762 Gho 2008
Pig-Boy: a trickster tale from Hawaiʻi by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M159 Pig 2009
Raven: a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E99 .N77 M33 1993
Sister Tricksters: rollicking tales of clever females by Robert D. San Souci (Illustrator, Retold by); Daniel San Souci (Illustrator, Retold by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.S227 Skg 2006

Australian Folktales

Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail by Tom Wrenn (Illustrator); Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.H1535 Why 2008

Canadian Folktales

Spirited away : fairy stories of old Newfoundland by Tom Dawe
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.D3116 Spi 2017

Caribbean Folktales

Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach : a Cuban folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .D3782 Mar 2007
Raw Head, Bloody Bones: African-American tales of the supernatural by Mary E. Lyons (Selected by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .R226 1991
Rooster's Night Out by Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Mitch Weiss; Martha Hamilton
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.H1535 Roo 2007

Central Asian/Middle Eastern Folktales

A Donkey Reads: Adapted from a Turkish Folktale by Muriel Mandell (Adapted by); Andre Letria (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M29765 Don 2011
Elephant in the Dark: based on a poem by Mina Javaherbin; Jalal al-Din Rumi; Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.2.J38 El 2015
Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern tale by adapted by Eric A. Kimmel
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .K5648 Jo 2010
Nasreddine by Odile Weulersse; Rebecca Dautremer (Illustrator); Kathleen Merz
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .W5355 Nas 2013
Tiger and Turtle by James Rumford
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .R8878 Tig 2010
The Well of Truth: a folktale from Egypt by Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss; Tom Wrenn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.H1535 Wel 2009

East Asian Folktales

The Archer and the Sun: a folktale from China by Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Rob Cleveland
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.C5912 Ar 2008
The Magic Pot by Pleasant DeSpain; Tom Wrenn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.D453 Mag 2007

European Folktales

The Bremen Town Musicians and other animal tales from Grimm by Doris Orgel; Bert Kitchen (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .O59 Br 2004
Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm by Eric Carle; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Hans Christian Andersen (Based on a story by); Jacob Grimm (Based on a story by); Aesop (Based on a story by)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8 .C2214 Es 1988
Never Say a Mean Word Again: a tale from Medieval Spain by Jacqueline Jules; Durga Yael Bernhard (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.J92947 Nev 2014
The Ogre Bully by A. B. Hoffmire (As told by, Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.H7212 Ogr 2007
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by retold and illustrated by Tony Ross
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .R693 P5 1978
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: a Hispanic folktale collection by Alma Flor Ada; F. Isabel Campoy; Felipe Davalos (Illustrator); Susan Guevara (Illustrator); Leyla Torres (Illustrator); Vivi Escriva (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .A218 An 2006

Latin American Folktales

Birth of the Fifth Sun by Jo Harper; Irma Martinez Sizer (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F1219.3 F6 H37 2008
The Coyote under the Table = El Coyote debajo de la Mesa: Folktales told in Spanish and English by Antonio Castro L. (Illustrator); Joe Hayes
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ74.1 .H32 2011
Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ7 .M78819 Don 2005
The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez; Isabel Campoy (Introduction by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.7 .H465 Dr 2017
La Matadragones: Cuentos de Latinoamérica by Jaime Hernandez; Isabel Campoy (Introduction by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7.7 .H465 Dr 2017
La Gallinita de la Pradera by Jackie Mims Hopkins; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ74.1 .H68 2015
Martina, the Beautiful Cockroach : a Cuban folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .D3782 Mar 2007
The Monkey's Haircut by John Bierhorst; Robert A. Parker (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F1435.3 .F6 B53 1986
Musicians of the Sun by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) F1219.76 .F65 M34 1997
Once upon a time : traditional Latin American tales = Había una vez : cuentos tradicionales latinoamericanos by Rueben Martínez
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M3728 Onc 2010
Stories of Mexico's Independence Days and Other Bilingual Children's Fables by Eliseo "Cheo" Torres and Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr.
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ71 .S76 2005
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: a Hispanic folktale collection by Alma Flor Ada; F. Isabel Campoy; Felipe Davalos (Illustrator); Susan Guevara (Illustrator); Leyla Torres (Illustrator); Vivi Escriva (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .A218 An 2006
Whiskers, Tails and Wings: animal folktales from Mexico by Judy Goldman; Fabricio Vanden Broeck (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F1219.3.F6 G65 2013

Native American Folktales

Arrow to the Sun: a Pueblo Indian tale by Gerald McDermott (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .M159 A4 1974
The Girl who Lived with the Bears by retold by Barbara Diamond Goldin
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E 78 .N77 G64 1997
How the Stars Fell into the Sky: a Navajo legend by Jerrie Oughton; Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) E99 .N3 O88 1992
Raven: a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) E99 .N77 M33 1993

South Asian Folktales

Cloud Tea Monkeys by Mal Peet; Elspeth Graham; Juan Wijngaard (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ7 .P3564 Clo 2010
The Drum: a folktale from India by Tom Wrenn (Illustrator); Rob Cleveland
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.C5912 Dr 2006
Grandma and the Great Gourd: a Bengali folktale by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Susy Pilgrim Waters (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.D625 Gr 2013
Monkey: a trickster tale from India by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ8.1 .M159 Mon 2011
Sita's Ramayana by Samhita Arni; Moyna Chitrakar (Illustrator); Valmiki
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)PZ7.7 .A76 Sit 2011

Russian Folktales

A Tale of Two Frogs: inspired by a Russian folktale by Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss; Tom Wrenn (Illustrator)
Call Number: ewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.2.H2515 Tal 2006

Southeast Asian Folktales

The Girl Who Wore Too Much: A Folktale from Thailand by Retold by Margaret Read MacDonald with Thai text by Supaporn Vathanaprida
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .M15924 Gi 1998
Kao and the Golden Fish: A Folktale from Thailand by As remembered by Wilai Punpattanakul-Crouch retold by Cheryl Hamada
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 8.1 .H1485 Kao 1993
How Tiger Got His Stripes by Baird Hoffmire (Illustrator); Rob Cleveland (As told by)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.C5912 How 2006

South American Folktales

Jabuti the Tortoise: a trickster tale from the Amazon by Gerald McDermott (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F2519.1 .A6 M33 2001
Love and Roast Chicken: a trickster tale from the Andes Mountains by Barbara Knutson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) F2230.1 .F6 K58 2004
Papagayo: the mischief maker by Gerald McDermott
Call Number: Lewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor) PZ 7 .M139 P3 1980
The Stolen Smell by Martha Hamilton; Mitch Weiss; Tom Wrenn (Illustrator)
Call Number: Lewis Library Curriculum Collection (6th Floor) PZ8.1.H1535 Sto 2007