Introduction: Children and Folklore 1(6) Gloria T. Blatt PART I---Bringing Folklore and Children Together in School: A Beginning 7(54) Telling Stories: A Key to Reading and Writing 9(17) R. Craig Roney Try This 24(2) Celebration of Folklore 26(11) Bette Bosma Try This 36(1) Helping Children Find Their Personal and Community Folklore 37(13) Sheila Fitzgerald Try This 49(1) Finding Folklore 50(11) Margaret Read MacDonald Try This 60(1) PART II---Understanding the Folklore Process Introduction 61(68) Motifs: Making Fairy Tales Our Own 63(17) Donald Haase Try This 78(2) Folktale Variants: Links to the Never-Ending Chain 80(17) Patricia J. Cianciolo Try This 94(3) Creating Variants with Illustrations 97(13) Patricia J. Cianciolo Try This 109(1) Fairy Tales Belong in the Classroom 110(19) Bette Bosma Try This 127(2) PART III---Making Connections Between Folklore and Other Forms of Literature 129(64) Folklore and Literature 131(9) Mark Workman Try This 139(1) Nanabozhoo, Superman of the Great Lakes Indians 140(12) Alethea K. Helbig Try This 151(1) Anansi, A Hero for All Seasons 152(13) Naomi Barnett Gloria T. Blatt Try This 164(1) Notes from a Jewish Storyteller 165(16) Eric Kimmel Try This 178(3) High Fantasies: Secret Openings to the Ring of Myth 181(12) Gloria T. Blatt Try This 191(2) About the Contributors 193(4) Index 197
