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Folk Tales/Mythology/Fairy Tales:
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's
Back: A Native American Year of Moons," by Joseph
Bruchac, Jonathan London and Thomas Locker
The Deetkatoo: Native
American Stories About Little People," by John Bierhorst
(Ed.) and Ron Hilbert Coy
Myth-o-Mania series, by
Kate McMullan
Jim Weiss stories on cd
Sherwood Smith--recommended fantasy books
"Favorite Medieval Tales" retold by Mary Pope Osborne
"Oxford Myths and Legends"--Oxford University Press series
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age Of Fable by Thomas
Bulfinch
With a
Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South
by Nancy Van Laan and Scott Cook
Literature:
Picture Books On
Shakespeare--
- Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
- Will's Quill, or,
How a Goose Saved Shakespeare by Don Freeman
- William Shakespeare
& the Globe by Aliki
- All the World's a
Stage, by Rebecca Piatt Davidson
Children's Illustrated
versions of Shakespeare--
- Stories from
Shakespeare: Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children" retold by Nicola
Baxter (Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet,
Twelfth Night, and Antony & Cleopatra)
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and
"The Tempest" both retold by Bruce Coville
- The Best of
Shakespeare" by E. Nesbit (The Merchant of Venice, Tempest, As You Like
It and seven others)\
Websites to find info and
recordings/movies about Shakespeare--
books by Edith Nesbit
SearchLIT (online texts)
Poetry:
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
A
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis
Stevenson and Tasha Tudor
Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear)
by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, and
X.J. Kennedy
Poetry Projects
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