The exploits of tricksters, traditional fairy tales, and how-and-why stories offer many exciting opportunities for learning. Kraus's bibliographic and activity guides help you design dynamic story times and projects to excite students' imaginations. Activity pages (e.g., Venn diagrams, shadow puppets, multimedia projects), teaching ideas, and other materials can be used to prepare story hours, art and drama projects, literature reading units, cultural explorations, and science.

People have been telling stories since the beginning of time--sharing them from one generation to the next. In Pourquoi Stories, readers will read four different tales that try to explain the hows and whys in the natural world. Readers will recognize some of their favorite stories growing up and discover new ones. Books include mature, complex themes at a low readability to engage struggling readers. Includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities.

"In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. "Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece." -Booklist, starred review. Winner of Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977.

This lyrically told, lushly illustrated book collects ten imaginative tales from diverse cultures to create a provocative portrait of the origins of our earth. A sumptuous, thought-provoking book, When the World Was Young is a beautiful gift for young and old alike. Full color.

This collection of humorous folktales from around the world share one common feature: the character of a fool.

Anansi the Spider's plan to trick his friend Turtle into doing all the work while he teaches Anansi to catch fish somehow gets turned around. While Anansi doesn't learn his lesson, he does learn the invaluable skill of weaving.

How the camel got his lump, how the leopard got his spots, and 10 other stories are told.

"Terheyden's narration makes the characters come alive. A truly delightful addition to any collection." - School Library Journal

Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.