Folk and Fairy Tales for Storytelling Selected Bibliography Selected by Rosemary Vohs for EDUC 309 – Western Washington University

Regional Anthologies Africa Abrahams, Roger D., reteller. African Folktales. New York: Random House, 1983. Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper. The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales. 1964. Carpenter, Frances. African Wonder Tales. Doubleday & Co., 1963. Courlander, Harold & Herzog, George. A Treasury of African Folklore. NY.: Crown Publishers, 1975. Courlander, Harold & Herzog, George. The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories. Holt, 1947. Courlander, Harold & Herzog, George. The King’s Drum and Other African Stories. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962. Greaves, Nick. When Hippo was Hairy and Other Tales from Africa. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 1988. Heady, Eleanor B. When the stones were soft; East African fireside tales, Illus. by Tom Feelings. New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1968 Ingpen, Robert & Hayes, Barbara. Folk Tales and Fables of the Middle East and Africa. Chelsea House, 1994. McIntosh, Gavin. Hausaland Tales from the Nigerian Marketplace. Northhaven, CT: Linnet Books / The Shoestring Press, Inc., 2002. Medlicott, Mary, ed. Tales from Africa.

NY: Kingfisher, 1995.

Walker, Barbara. The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folk Tales. Texas Tech U Press, 1990. Walker, Barbara. Watermelons, Walnuts and the Wisdom of Allah and Other Tales of the Hoca. Parents Magazine Press, 1967. Washington, Donna. A Pride of African Tales. HarperCollins Publishers. 2004.

America Battle, Kemp P. Great American Foklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads & Surperstitions from all across America. A Touchstrone Book / Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1986. Brusca, Maria Christina & Wilson, Tona. When Jaguars Ate the Moon and Other Stories About Animals and Plants of the Americas. Holt, 1995. Burrison, John A., ed. Storytellers - Folktales and Legends from the South. University of Georgia Press: Athens, Georgia, 1989.

Cohn, Amy L. , ed. From sea to shining sea : a treasury of American folklore and folk illustrated by Molly Bang ... et al. New York : Scholastic, 1993. Davis, Hubert. J. American Witch Stories. Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David Publishers, Inc. 1975/1990. Dockery-Young, Richard and Judy. Ozark Tall Tales. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1989. DeSpain, Pleasant. Sweet Land of Stories: Thirty-six American Tales to Tell. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 2000 Haley, Gail E. Mountain Jack Tales. New York: Dutton, 1992. Harris, Jowl Chandler. The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Harris, Jowl Chandler. More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others. Dial, 1988. Harris, Jowl Chandler. American Tall Tales. Knoph, 1991. Kimmel, Eric. A. The Lady in the Blue Cloak: Legends from the Texas Missions. New York: Holiday House, 2006. MacDonald, Margaret Read. Ghost Stories From the Pacific Northwest. Little Rock, Ark.: August House, 1995. Minard, Rosemary, ed. American Tall Tales. Knopf, 1991. Philip, Neil, ed. American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rutabaga Stories. NY.: Hyperion, 1996. San Souci, Robert D. Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale. Philomel, 1993. Saxbey, Maurice, reteller. The Great Deeds of Superheroes. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1989. Saxbey, Maurice, reteller. American Tall Tales. Penguin, 1976. Stoutenberg, Adrien. American Tall Tales. Penguin, 1976. Smith, Jimmy Neil, ed. Homespun: Tales from America’s Favorite Storytellers. NY: Crown, 1998. Sobol, Joseph Daniel. The House between Earth and Sky: Harvesting New American Folktales. NH: Libraries Unlimited, 2006 Stewart, Finley. Best Stories From the Texas Storytelling Festival. Little Rock Ark: August House Publishers, 1995. Wood, Nancy. The Girl Who Love Coyote: Stories of the Southwest. Morrow, 1995. Zeitlin, Steven J., Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker. A Celebration of American Family Folklore. Pantheon Books, 1982. Zipes, Jack, ed. Don’t Bet On the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America. NY: Methuen, 1986. African American Abrahams, Roger D. African American Folktales: Stories from the Black Traditions in the New World. Pantheon, 1985.

Hamiliton, Virginia. When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends. New York: The Blue Sky Press (Scholastic), 1996. Hamiliton, Virginia. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Stories. New York: The Blue Sky Press (Scholastic), 1995. Hamiliton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hamilton, Virginia. A ring of tricksters : animal tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa illustrated by Barry Moser. New York : Blue Sky Press, c1997. Lester, Julius. How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? and Other Tales. Scholastic, 1989. Lester, Julius. More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others. Dial, 1988. Lester, Julius. The Knee-High Man and Other Tales. Dial, 1972. Lester, Julius. The Last Tales of Uncle Remus. Dial, 1994. MacFarlan, Allen. ed. Native American Tales and Legends. New York. Dover Publishing New York. 1968 Parks, Van Dyke. Jump Again! More Adventures of Brer Rabbit. Harcourt Brace, 1987. Parks, Van Dyke. Jump on Over! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and His Family. Harcourt Brace, 1989. Parks, Van Dyke & Malcolm Jones. Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit. Harcourt Brace, 1986. Vernon, Hugh. African American Tales. New York. Dover Publishing. 1999 Native American and First Nations of Canada Bemister, Margaret, reteller. 30 Indian Legends of Canada. Vancouver B.C.: JJ Douglas LTD, 1973. Bruchac, Joseph. The Boy Who Lived with the Bears and Other Iroquois Stories. Harper Collins, 1995. Bruchac, Joseph, Native American animal stories / told by Joseph Bruchac ; foreword by Vine DeLoria, Jr. ; illustrations by John Kahionhes Fadden and David Kanietakeron Fadden. Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c1992 Curry, Jane. The Wonderful Sky Boat and Other Native American Tales of the Southwest. New York. M. K. McElderry Books, 2001 Erdoes, Richard and Alfons Ortiz. American Indian Myths and Legends. NY: Pantheon Books, 1984 Griffin, Trenholme J. (Collected by Judge Arthur Griffin). More Ah Mo: Indian Legends from the Northwest. Blaine, WA: Hancock House, 1993 Hamilton, Martha. Is My Friend Home: Pueblo Fireside Tales. New York. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001 Hausman, Gerald. Coyote Walks on Two Legs: A Book of Navajo Myths and Legends. Putman, 1994

Hausman, Gerald. How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet: Native American Animal Origin Stories. Harper Collins, 1995 Judson, Katharine Berry. Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest: Especially Washington and Oregon. Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2006. Martin, Eva. Tales of the Far North pictures by László Gál. New York : Dial Books, 1986, c1984. Mayo, Gretchen Will. Earthmaker’s Tales: North American Indian Stories from Earth Happenings. Wlker, 1989. Manitonquat. The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales. Macmillion, 1994. Monroe, Jean Guard & Ray A. Williamson. The Dance in the Sky: Native American Star Myths. Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Norman, Howard. How Glooscap Outwits the Ice Giants and Other Tales of the Maritime Indians. Little, Brown, 1989 Norman, Howard. Northern Tales: Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian People. NY: Pantheon Books, 1990. Running, Corinne. When Coyote walked the earth; Indian tales of the Pacific Northwest. Illus. by Richard Bennett. New York, H. Holt [1949] British Isles Briggs, Katherine M. British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler. London: Paladin, 1977. Croker, T. Crofton. Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland. Macmillan Co., 1973. Crossley-Holland. British Folk Tales: New Versions. London and New York: Orchard Books, 1987. Dorson, Richard. Folktales of England. 1965. Doyle, Malachy. Tales from Old Ireland. New York: Barefoot Books, 2000. Glassie, Henry, ed. Irish Folktales. NY: Pantheon Books, 1985. Killip, Kathleen. Twisting the Rope and other folktales from the Isle of Man. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1980. Jacobs, Joseph. British Folktales. McNek, Heather. The Celtic Breeze: Stories of the Otherworld from Scottland, Ireland and Wales. Colorado. Libraries Unlimited, 2001 Philip, Neil. The Penguin Book of English Foktales. Penguin Books, 1992. Rolleston, T.W. Celtic Myths and Legends. NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 1990. Ryhs, Ernest. Fairy Gold: A Book of Classic English Fairy Tales. NY: Hippocrene Books, Inc.,1906. Stewart, Sue, ed. A World of Folk Tales: from multi-cultural Scotland. Aberdeen: Scottish Cultural Press, 1996. Swinson, Cyril. Ed. Twenty Scottish Tales and Legends. New York. Hippocrene Books Inc. 1998 Wilson, Barbara Ker. Scottish Folk-Tales and Legends. Walck, 1954.

Yeats, W.B. ed. Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland. NY: Touchstone, 1973. Central and South America Brusca, María Cristina. When jaguars ate the moon : and other stories about animals and plants of the Americas / retold by María Cristina Brusca and Toña Wilson ; illustrated by María Cristina Brusca. New York : Holt, 1995 deAlmeida, Levia. Brazilian Folktales. Westport: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. Dorson, Mercedes, and Jeanne Wilmot, retellers. Tales from the Rain Forest: Myths and Legends from the Amazonian Indians of Brazil. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997. Finger, Charles. Tales from Silver Lands. Doubleday, 1924. Spence, Lewis. The Myths Of Mexico and Peru. NY: Dover Publications, Inc. 1994. Sherlock, Philip M. Anansi the Spider Man: Jamaican Folk Tales. Crowell/Harper & Collins, 1954. Virgil, Angel. The Eagle on the Cactus: Traditional Stories from Mexico. Colorado. Libraries Unlimited, 2001 Wolkstein, Diane. The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folk Tales. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. China and Central Asia Kendal, Carol. Sweet and Sour: Tales from China. New York: Seabury Press, 1979. Nianpei, Li. Old Tales of China: China's most well-known folklores, legends, myths & historical anecdotes. The Commercial Press, 1989. Major, John S. Three Boys and Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet. Honolulu: U. of Hawai’i Press, 2007. Yee, Paul. Tales from Gold Mountain. Macmillan, 1990. Yi, Ying, translator. Folktales and Legends of the Dai People: The Thai Lue in Yunnan, China. D D Brooks, 1992. Yuan, Haiwang. The Magic Lotus Lantern and other Tales from the Han Chinese. NH: Libraries Unlimited, 2006 Central and Eastern Europe Altman, Anne, E. The Seven Swabians, and Other German Folktales. NH: Libraries Unlimited, 2006 Cooper, David. Traditional Slovak Folktales. London: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. Philip, Neil. ed. Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe. England: Liber Press, 1991. Marshall, Bonnie C. Tales From The Heart Of The Balkans.I Libraries Unlimited, 2001. Suwyn, Barbara J. Reteller. The Magic Egg and Other Tales form Ukraine. Colorado, Libraries Unlimited. 1998

France Zipes, Jack ed. Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: Meridian / Penguin, 1989. Greek & Roman Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths: Complete Edition. NY: Penguin Books, 1960. Humphries, Rolfe, translator. Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Bloomington In.: Indiana University Press, 1973. Smith-McBride, Barbra. Greek Myths Western Style: Toga Tales with an Attitude. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 2001 India and Central Asia Beck, Brenda E. F., ed. Folktales of India. The University of Chicago Press, 1987. (from same series also: Chile, China Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, and Norway.) Crooke, William and Chaube, Pandit Ram Gharid. Folktales from Northern India. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Inc. 2002 Krishnaswami, Uma. The Broken Tusk: Sories of the Hindu God Ganesha. GA: August House Publishers, Inc., 1996. Narayan, Kirin. Mondays on the Dark Side of the Moon. NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. Ramanujan, A.K. ed. Folktales From India. NY: Pantheon Books, 1991. Italy Galvino, Italo. reteller. Italian Folktales. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1980. Malpezzi, Frances and Clements, William. Italian-American Folklore: Proverbs, Songs, Games, Folktales, Foodways, Superstitions, Folk Remedies and More. Little Rock, Ark.: August House. 2001 Martin, Rafe. Mysterious Tales of Japan. New York: G.P. Putman Sons, 1996. Romano, Lilia E. Italian Fairy Tales. NY: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 1999. Japan Tyler, Royall, ed & translator. Japanese Tales. NY: Pantheon Books, Fairytale and Folklore Library, 1987. Uchida, Yoshiko. The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Folk Tales. Harcourt Brace, 1949. Korea Curry, Lindy Soon. A Tiger By The Tail and Other Storiess From the Heart of Korea. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

Latin America Almeida, Livia de and Portella, Ana. Edited by MacDonald, Margaret Read. Brazilian Folktales. NH: Libraries Unlimited, 2006 Delacre, Lulu. Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America. NY: Scholastic Press, 1996. Madrigal, Antonio Hernandez. The Eagle and The Rainbow: Timeless Tales from Mexico. Golden, CO.: Fulcrum Kids, 1997 Mohr, Nicholasa. The Song of el Coqui and Other Tales of Puerto Rico. Viking, 1995. Russia Chandler, Robert, translator. Russian Folk Tales. New York: Random House, 1984. Riordan, James. Russian Folk-Tales. NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. Riordan, James. The Sun Maiden and The Crescent Moon: Siberian Folk Tales. New York: Interlink Books, 1989. Scandinavian Blecker, Lone Thygesen & Blecher, George, eds. Swedish Folktales and Legends. New York: Pantheon, 1993. Osborne, Mary Pope, reteller. Favorite Norse Myths. Scholastic, Inc., 1996.

South East Asia Garland, Sherry. Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales form Vietnam. SanDiego. Harcourt. Inc, 2001 Lindell, Kristina. Folk Tales from Kammu -V: A Young Storyteller’s Tales. Curzon Press, 1995. MacDonald, Margaret Read, ed. Thai Tales: Folktales of Thailand. Retold by Supaporn Vathanaprida. Libraries Unlimited, 1994. Vuong, Lynette Dyer. 1991.

The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales. Harper Collins

Vuong, Lynette Dyer, Sky legends of Vietnam illustrated by Vo-Dinh Mai. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1993