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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this story from West Africa, Anansi the spider uses his wits, his trickster skills, and the help of his friends to bring light to the world.

Perform this tale from Africa about a sky king's fee for his stories.

Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.

The all new essays in this book discuss Black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The representation of Black protagonists in such tales helps to shape children's ideas about themselves and the world beyond their limited experiences. Allowing them to see themselves in traditional tales strengthens connections with the world and can ignite a will to read books representing diverse ethnic and cultural characters. Also discussed is the need for a multicultural text set which includes the multiplicity of cultures within the Black Diaspora.The tales referenced in the text are rich and diverse in perspective, illuminating stories such as Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Readers will see that stories from Black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while steeped in literary traditions that can be traced back to Africa or the diaspora.

‘A handbook for these troubled times’ Psychologies Magazine ’Engaging and informative ... highlights our common humanity’ Kofi Annan ‘A passionately written polemic’ You Magazine The truth is, INCLUSION is better for EVERYONE.

Results of a four-year hospitalized children's media project carried out by the Media Center for Children.

A comprehensive anthology of myths, legends, epics, tales, poems, and other unwritten literary forms of the peoples of the Sudan, the Guinea Coast, Central Africa, the eastern grasslands, southern Africa, and the northeastern Horn

Explains, in graphic novel format, the African myth of the spider, Anansi.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, e, p, t.

Of all the many teaching tools technology has brought to the classroom, the motion picture and its companion, videotape, remain the best method for extending the classroom and for providing programming ideas for teachers and librarians.

A sourcebook of techniques designed to develop improvisional skills in young actors.

The Storyteller's Sourcebook is the first reference tool to bring together from children's collections variants of each folktale, and to supply descriptions of them. It is specifically designed for quick and easy access by the teacher or librarian who wants to locate (1) tales about a given subject, (2) the location of a specific tale title in collections, (3) tales from an ethnic or geographical area, (4) variants of a specific tale. - p. ix.

Surveys a wide range of fiction and nonfiction children's books dealing with the various ethnic and racial groups in the United States

The histories behind the fairy tale characters in New York Times best-selling author Bill Willingham's series FABLES are uncovered here in the FABLES ENCYCLOPEDIA. Exhaustively researched by author Jess Nevins, these annotations fill in details hailing down from ancient myth and forgotten civilizations of the timeless figures that compose the world of Fabletown, including Snow White, Bigby Wolf, Boy Blue and many more. This new compendium is a must-have addition to any FABLES afficianado's library as well as any fan of modern folk lore and fairy tales.

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