Rachel Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 My 10 year old daughter enjoys to read myths, fairytales, and folktales and wants to incorporate more into this year’s school year. She has read most of the Lang fairy books and enjoys Native American stories. I know D’Aularies has Norwegian and Norse tales in addition to the Greek myths (she’s read them). Any recommendations of tales from other continents? Anthologies or collections would be wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostintheCosmos Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Some of our favorites: Geraldine McCaughrean has a lot of mythology and folktales - ancient Greek and Roman stories, an Arabian Nights retelling, among others. Virginia Hamilton's three collections, The People Could Fly and Her Stories (Black American folktales) and In the Beginning (creation myths from around the world) - these are all beautifully illustrated, the first two by the Dillons and the last by Barry Moser Julius Lester's Brer Rabbit collection Padraic Colum's Children of Odin and The Golden Fleece Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of Ancient Egypt Sanjay Patel's Ramayana Ludmilla Zeman's Gilgamesh trilogy and her Sinbad retellings This collection organizes folktales geographically and this one, edited by Jane Yolen, by genre Edited August 4, 2020 by LostCove 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 hours ago, OKBud said: Dover has good collections. "African Folk Tales" etc. We once did a little thing where we checked out all the Cinderella retellings from around the world and contrasted them. That was fabulous! Thanks for the reminder 🙂 That sounds like something she would enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) Arabian NightsGolden Tales from the Arabian Nights -- my favorite version for illustrations 😄 Dover: Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights StoriesTales from the Arabian Nights (Napoli)Ballet talesTales From the Ballet (Untermeyer) -- my childhood favorite (now out-of-print); other collections of stories from the Ballet: The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories (Yolen) Usborne Illustrated Ballet Stories Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories (Newman)American Tall Tales / Native American talesCut From the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale (San Souci) -- this looks really cool!American Tall Tales (Osborne) -- larger-than-life American folktale heroesNative American Plant Stories (Bruchac)Native American Animal Stories (Bruchac)Myths and Legends: Native American Stories (Bruchac) Dover: Native American Indian Tales Animal talesNative American Animal Stories (Bruchac)Just So Stories (Kipling) -- "how ______ happened", or "why ________ is like this" type of storiesTrickster Tales: Forty Folk Stories From Around the World (Sherman) -- the trickster character shows up in stories all over the worldBarefoot Book of Trickster Tales (Walker) -- 9 stories from around the worldMythsStar Stories (Ganeri) -- 18 tales from around the world, each with a story to go with a star constellationTreasury of Norse Mythology (Napoli)Treasury of Egyptian Mythology (Napoli)Mayan and Aztec Mythology (Ollhoff)Roman Myths (McCaughrean) Dover: The Story of King Arthur, and, Robin Hood -- these are really well-known mythologies/talesFolktales / world and individual nations or peoplesA Year Full of Stories: 52 Classic Stories From All Around the World (McAllister) -- multiple countriesTales of India (Kohli) -- IndiaThe Ch'i-Lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories (Fang) -- ChinaKorean Children's Favorite Stories (Kim So-Un) -- KoreaTales from the African Plains (Gatti) -- various African tribesFavorite African Folktales (Mandela) -- various African nationsStories from the Billabong (Marshall) -- Australian AboriginalFairytale story collections all on one particular creature/beingMermaid Tales from Around the World (Osborne) A Book of _________ by Ruth Manning Sanders -- out-of-print, but over 20 books that are collections of 12-18 well-written stories from around the world, with each book a collection of stories featuring a different being: Giants; Dwarves; Dragons; Witches; Wizards; Mermaids; Ghosts & Goblins; Devils & Demons; Ogres & Trolls; Magic Horses...And finally, fun new spin on a traditional fairy taleThe Rumpelstiltskin Problem (Velde) -- 6 fun short stories of Rumpelstiltskin, all from different character perspectives, with different endings ________________________________ And if your DD likes collections/anthologies, you might consider investing in one of these lovely, out-of-print children's anthologies with a treasury of classic literature and stories:My Book House -- 12 volumesThe Children's Hour -- 16 volumesCollier's Junior Classics Young Folks Shelf of Books -- 10 volumesJourney Through Bookland -- 10 volumes These past threads will help you sort through what is in each, and which anthology set might be the best fit:My Book House vs. The Children's Hour?Anthologies vs. Young Folks Library vs. ?My Book House vs. Journeys Through Bookland - compareWhat vintage reference and anthology type sets do you recommend? And these past threads with ideas on using the various anthologies:- "How to use "My Book House Set"?"- "Junior Classics anthology -- what now?"- "Just wanted to share again how much I really like Journeys Through Bookland" Edited September 5, 2020 by Lori D. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted August 6, 2020 Author Share Posted August 6, 2020 Thank you all! I’ll be seeing what my library has and then doing some shopping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 On 8/4/2020 at 8:54 AM, Æthelthryth the Texan said: If you like beautiful illustrations, Gennady Spirin has some of the most gorgeously illustrated folktales and myths that exist, in my opinion. Unfortunately most you have to find used. But they are stunning and worth it. LOVE Gennady Spirin's illustrations. We own quite a few. Here are a couple of our favorites: Firebird Sea King's Daughter I also LOVE Kinuko Craft's illustrations: Beauty and the Beast Pegasus Cupid and Psyche Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Ditto the Gennady Spirin books. James Mayhew has a nice collection of Russian tales, Koshka's Tales. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 We have a lot of them, because dd loves folk tales, but this one is my favorite collection. It's so attractive and beautifully illustrated. I bought it used (not this expensive!). https://www.amazon.com/TALES-FABLES-WORLD-Barbara-Hayes/dp/1869536673 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 We loved Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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