READING WITHOUT WALLS CHALLENGE
Folktale and Fairy Tales Suggestions
All titles can be found in South School Library
398.2 AARAardema, Verna. Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale. New York : Dial Press, [1975].
Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
E 398.2 AARAardema, Verna. Who's in Rabbit's house? : a Masai tale. New York : Dial Press, c1977.
Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.
E 398.2 AYLAylesworth, Jim. My grandfather's coat. 1st ed., November 2014. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014.
"A tailor's very old overcoat is recycled numerous times over the years into a variety of garments and other uses"--Provided by publisher.
E 398.2 BRUBruchac, James. Rabbit's snow dance : a traditional Iroquois story. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2012.
A long-tailed rabbit who wants a nibble of the highest, tastiest leaves uses his special snow song in the summertime, despite the protests of the other animals.
E 398.2 CHIChin, Charlie. China's bravest girl : the legend of Hua Mu Lan = [Chin kuo ying hsiung Hua Mu-lan]. Emeryville, CA : Children's Book Press, 1993.
Legend of Hua Mu Lan who goes to war disguised as a man to save the family honor and becomes a great general.
E 398.2 DALDaly, Niki. Pretty Salma : a Little Red Riding Hood story from Africa. 1st American ed. New York : Clarion Books, 2007.
In this version of "Little Red Riding Hood," set in Ghana, a young girl fails to heed Granny's warning about the dangers of talking to strangers.
E 398.2 DEEDeedy, Carmen Agra. Martina the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale. 1st ed. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree, c2007.
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
E 398.2 DEMDEMI. The Empty Pot. New York : Henry Holt and Co, 1990.
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
E 398.2 DEPDe Paola, Tomie. Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002.
After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta.
E 398.2 DEPDePaola, Tomie, 1934-. The legend of the poinsettia. New York : Putnam, c1994.
When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.
E 398.2 FLEFleischman, Paul. Glass slipper, gold sandal : a worldwide Cinderella. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2007.
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more.
E 398.2 HALHaley, Gail E. A story, a story; : an African tale,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Atheneum, [1970].
Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories.".
E 398.2 HONHong, Lily Toy. Two of everything. A. Whitman, 1993.
A poor old Chinese farmer finds a magic brass pot that doubles or duplicates whatever is placed inside it, but his efforts to make himself wealthy lead to unexpected complications.
E 398.2 HULHuling, Jan. Ol' Bloo's boogie-woogie band and blues ensemble. Atlanta : Peachtree, c2010.
Set in Louisiana, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.
E 398.2 ISAIsadora, Rachel. The princess and the pea. New York : Putnam's, c2007.
Only by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds can a girl prove she is a real princess.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the magic stick. 1st ed. Holiday House, c2001.
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the moss-covered rock. 1st ed. Holiday House, c1988.
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the talking melon. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1994.
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Baba Yaga : A Russian Folktale. New York : Holiday House.
When a terribvle witch vows to eat her for supper a little girl excaes with the help of atowel and comb given to her by the witch's cat.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. The runaway tortilla. 1st ed. Winslow Press, c2000.
In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.
E 398.2 LEELee, H. Chuku. Beauty and the beast : a retelling. First edition.
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
E 398.2 LESLester, Julius. The knee-high man, and other tales. New York, : Dial Press, [1972].
Retells six tales from American black folk literature: "Why the Waves Have Whitecaps," "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear," "Why Dogs Hate Cats," "The Farmer and the Snake," "What is Trouble?" and "The Knee-High Man.".
E 398.2 LEWLewis, Paul Owen. Storm boy. Emeryville, Calif. : Beyond Words Pub. ;, c1995.
A story drawn from Haida Indian literary tradition in which a boy falls from his canoe into a world of eighteen-foot tall humanlike creatures who welcome him and eventually return him to his village.
E 398.2 LOUSoldier and tsar in the forest; : a Russian tale. [1st ed.]. New York, : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1972].
Not knowing the man he meets in the forest is the tsar, a young soldier discloses that he has deserted.
E 398.2 MACMacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-. How many donkeys? : an Arabic counting tale. Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2009.
When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation, in a tale which includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration.
E 398.2 MAHMahy, Margaret. The seven Chinese brothers. New York : Scholastic, c1990.
Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities.
E 398.2 MARMartin, Francesca. Clever Tortoise : a traditional African tale. 1st U.S. ed. Candlewick Press, c2000.
Clever Tortoise leads the other jungle animals in teaching bullying Elephant and Hippopotamus a lesson by tricking them into engaging in a tug of war with each other.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1972.
In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Arrow to the sun; : a Pueblo Indian tale. 1st ed. New York, : Viking Press, [1974].
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Jabutí the tortoise : a trickster tale from the Amazon. Harcourt, c2001.
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Zomo the Rabbit : a trickster tale from West Africa. 1st ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
E 398.2 MORMorales, Yuyi. Just a minute : a trickster tale and counting book. Chronicle Books, c2003.
In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
E 398.2 OLIOliviero, Jamie. The fish skin. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 1993.
A small Cree boy saves his people from dying of thirst when the Great Spirit gives his a magical fish skin.
E 398.2 PINPinkney, Jerry. Little Red Riding Hood. 1st ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2007.
A sweet little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.
E 398.2 RANRansome, Arthur, 1884-1967. The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
E 398.2 SEESeeger, Pete, 1919-. Abiyoyo returns. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
E 398.2 STEStevens, Janet. Old bag of bones: a coyote tale. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, 1996.
E 398.2 ZEMZemach, Margot. It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale. 1st ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.
E 398.22 YOLYolen, Jane. The emperor and the kite. Philomel Books, 1993, c1967.
When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
E PB 398.2 ATWAtwater, Barbara J., author. How raven got his crooked nose : an Alaskan Dena'ina fable.
"Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way."--Provided by publisher.
Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
E 398.2 AARAardema, Verna. Who's in Rabbit's house? : a Masai tale. New York : Dial Press, c1977.
Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.
E 398.2 AYLAylesworth, Jim. My grandfather's coat. 1st ed., November 2014. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014.
"A tailor's very old overcoat is recycled numerous times over the years into a variety of garments and other uses"--Provided by publisher.
E 398.2 BRUBruchac, James. Rabbit's snow dance : a traditional Iroquois story. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2012.
A long-tailed rabbit who wants a nibble of the highest, tastiest leaves uses his special snow song in the summertime, despite the protests of the other animals.
E 398.2 CHIChin, Charlie. China's bravest girl : the legend of Hua Mu Lan = [Chin kuo ying hsiung Hua Mu-lan]. Emeryville, CA : Children's Book Press, 1993.
Legend of Hua Mu Lan who goes to war disguised as a man to save the family honor and becomes a great general.
E 398.2 DALDaly, Niki. Pretty Salma : a Little Red Riding Hood story from Africa. 1st American ed. New York : Clarion Books, 2007.
In this version of "Little Red Riding Hood," set in Ghana, a young girl fails to heed Granny's warning about the dangers of talking to strangers.
E 398.2 DEEDeedy, Carmen Agra. Martina the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale. 1st ed. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree, c2007.
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
E 398.2 DEMDEMI. The Empty Pot. New York : Henry Holt and Co, 1990.
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
E 398.2 DEPDe Paola, Tomie. Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2002.
After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta.
E 398.2 DEPDePaola, Tomie, 1934-. The legend of the poinsettia. New York : Putnam, c1994.
When Lucida is unable to finish her gift for the Baby Jesus in time for the Christmas procession, a miracle enables her to offer the beautiful flower we now call the poinsettia.
E 398.2 FLEFleischman, Paul. Glass slipper, gold sandal : a worldwide Cinderella. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2007.
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more.
E 398.2 HALHaley, Gail E. A story, a story; : an African tale,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Atheneum, [1970].
Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories.".
E 398.2 HONHong, Lily Toy. Two of everything. A. Whitman, 1993.
A poor old Chinese farmer finds a magic brass pot that doubles or duplicates whatever is placed inside it, but his efforts to make himself wealthy lead to unexpected complications.
E 398.2 HULHuling, Jan. Ol' Bloo's boogie-woogie band and blues ensemble. Atlanta : Peachtree, c2010.
Set in Louisiana, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.
E 398.2 ISAIsadora, Rachel. The princess and the pea. New York : Putnam's, c2007.
Only by feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds can a girl prove she is a real princess.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the magic stick. 1st ed. Holiday House, c2001.
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the moss-covered rock. 1st ed. Holiday House, c1988.
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the talking melon. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, c1994.
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. Baba Yaga : A Russian Folktale. New York : Holiday House.
When a terribvle witch vows to eat her for supper a little girl excaes with the help of atowel and comb given to her by the witch's cat.
E 398.2 KIMKimmel, Eric A. The runaway tortilla. 1st ed. Winslow Press, c2000.
In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him.
E 398.2 LEELee, H. Chuku. Beauty and the beast : a retelling. First edition.
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
E 398.2 LESLester, Julius. The knee-high man, and other tales. New York, : Dial Press, [1972].
Retells six tales from American black folk literature: "Why the Waves Have Whitecaps," "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear," "Why Dogs Hate Cats," "The Farmer and the Snake," "What is Trouble?" and "The Knee-High Man.".
E 398.2 LEWLewis, Paul Owen. Storm boy. Emeryville, Calif. : Beyond Words Pub. ;, c1995.
A story drawn from Haida Indian literary tradition in which a boy falls from his canoe into a world of eighteen-foot tall humanlike creatures who welcome him and eventually return him to his village.
E 398.2 LOUSoldier and tsar in the forest; : a Russian tale. [1st ed.]. New York, : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1972].
Not knowing the man he meets in the forest is the tsar, a young soldier discloses that he has deserted.
E 398.2 MACMacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-. How many donkeys? : an Arabic counting tale. Morton Grove, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2009.
When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation, in a tale which includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration.
E 398.2 MAHMahy, Margaret. The seven Chinese brothers. New York : Scholastic, c1990.
Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities.
E 398.2 MARMartin, Francesca. Clever Tortoise : a traditional African tale. 1st U.S. ed. Candlewick Press, c2000.
Clever Tortoise leads the other jungle animals in teaching bullying Elephant and Hippopotamus a lesson by tricking them into engaging in a tug of war with each other.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1972.
In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Arrow to the sun; : a Pueblo Indian tale. 1st ed. New York, : Viking Press, [1974].
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Jabutí the tortoise : a trickster tale from the Amazon. Harcourt, c2001.
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.
E 398.2 MCDMcDermott, Gerald. Zomo the Rabbit : a trickster tale from West Africa. 1st ed. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.
Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.
E 398.2 MORMorales, Yuyi. Just a minute : a trickster tale and counting book. Chronicle Books, c2003.
In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
E 398.2 OLIOliviero, Jamie. The fish skin. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 1993.
A small Cree boy saves his people from dying of thirst when the Great Spirit gives his a magical fish skin.
E 398.2 PINPinkney, Jerry. Little Red Riding Hood. 1st ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2007.
A sweet little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.
E 398.2 RANRansome, Arthur, 1884-1967. The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.
E 398.2 SEESeeger, Pete, 1919-. Abiyoyo returns. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001.
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
E 398.2 STEStevens, Janet. Old bag of bones: a coyote tale. 1st ed. New York : Holiday House, 1996.
E 398.2 ZEMZemach, Margot. It could always be worse : a Yiddish folk tale. 1st ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.
Unable to stand his overcrowded and noisy home any longer, a poor man goes to the Rabbi for advice.
E 398.22 YOLYolen, Jane. The emperor and the kite. Philomel Books, 1993, c1967.
When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
E PB 398.2 ATWAtwater, Barbara J., author. How raven got his crooked nose : an Alaskan Dena'ina fable.
"Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back. With the help of magic powers, Chulyen devises a caper to retrieve his missing nose, and learns an important lesson along the way."--Provided by publisher.