This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings
of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable
teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths
and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is
on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East,
Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains
extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths
and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world
published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories
suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high
school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain
complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative
annotations. Seven indexes--title, author, illustrator, culture,
story type, name, and grade level--make searching easy. The story
type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and
tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and
hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human
beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals,
natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior,
searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are
fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers,
important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and
spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of
retellings published earlier that have come to be considered
standard works.
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