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Celebrate International Children's Book Day

 

Saturday, 31 March 2012

11:00 a.m. to Noon

Blagg Huey Library

Denton Campus

Texas Woman's University

 

To celebrate International Children's Book Day, graduate students in LS5633: The Art of Storytelling are sharing traditional stories from ancient China, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain. In addition, we are providing contemporary international novels to browse. We used the Outstanding International Books (OIB) Lists from the U.S. Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) and the WOW (Worlds of Words) International Collection of Children's and Adolescent Literature database to identify some of the contemporary novels.

 

8th-grade students in the Calhoun Middle School International Book Club, sponsored by English language arts teacher Ragina Shearer, and their parents will be among our audience. Ms. Shearer and Dr. Moreillon, assistant professor TWU, are Texas Ambassadors for USBBY.

 

Storyteller: Judi Moreillon

 Story Title: "Rama and Hanuman: A Story from the Ramayana"


Resources:

Monkey Business: Stories from Around the World by Shirley Climo, illustrated by Erik Brooks (Henry Holt 2005) 

Shower of Gold: Girls and Women in Stories of India by Um Krishnaswami,
illustrated by Maniam Selven (Linnet 1999) 

Sita's Ramayana by Samhira Arni & Moyna Chitrakar (Groundwood 2011)

A World Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Folktales: Stories from Six
Continents by Renata Bini, illustrated by Mikhail Fiodorov (Abrams 2000)


Contemporary International Novels to Browse:

Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Tr. by Lucia Graves. (Little Brown 2011 )

Saraswati's Way by Monika Schroeder (Farrar, Straus Giroux 2010)

Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis. Tr. by Anthea Bell. (Amulet 2006/2008)


 

Storyteller: Anne Huser Story Title: "Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure"
Resources:
Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci (Simon & Schuster, 1999)

Contemporary International Books to Browse:

Bog Children by Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling 2010)

Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson (Roaring Brook 2009)

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson (HarperCollins 2008)

 

 

Storyteller: Dani Conroy
Story Title: "The Little Old Lady and the Leprechaun"
Resources: The Little Old Lady and the Leprechaun retold by Elizabeth McKinnon

Contemporary International Novels to Browse:

Bog Children by Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling 2010)

Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson (Roaring Brook 2009)

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson (HarperCollins 2008)

 

Storyteller: Leslie Wesson

Story Title: "The Elegant Rooster"

This folktale has been found in the oral tradition of Spain and Hispanic America

Resources: Multicultural Folktales Stories to Tell Young Children

by Judy Sierra & Robert Kaminski

Two picture books that retell similar "chain reaction" folktales are the English

tale, Old Woman and Her Pig, illustrated by Paul Galdone (Whittlesey 1960) 

and the Irish tale, Munachar and Manachar! illustrated by Anne Rockwell (Crowell 1970)

Additional International Novels to Browse:

Incantation by Alice Hoffman (Little, Brown 2007) 

 

Storyteller: Judi Moreillon
Story Title: "El diamante de corazon"

Resources:

"El diamante de corazon" by Mara from Storytelling World magazine (Summer/Fall 1994)

Contemporary International Novels to Browse:

La línea by Ann Jaramillo (Square Fish 2008)

Mexican High by Liza Monroy (Spiegel & Grau 2009)

Red Glass by Laura Resau (Delacourt 2009)

Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by Malin Alegria (Simon & Schuster 2008)

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Lee & Low 2011)

 

 

Storyteller: Judi Moreillon
Story Title: "The Great Deed of Li Ji"

Resources:

Sweet and Sour Tales by Carol Kendall and Yao-wen Li (Clarion 2006)

Favorite Folktales from Around the World edited by Jane Yolen (Pantheon 1988)

Contemporary International Novels to Browse:

The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl by Yan Ma. Trans. by Lisa   Appignanesi (HarperCollins 2009)

Legend of the Chinese Dragon by Marie Sellier. Trans. by Sibylle Kazeroid. Illus. by Catherine Louis. Calligraphy and chop marks by Wang Fei (NorthSouth 2007)

Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age during the Chinese Revolution by Moying Li (Square Fish 2010) 

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little, Brown 2009 ) 

 

Photograph of the Tellers

 

Left to right: Judi Moreillon, Leslie Wesson, Dani Conroy, and Anne Huser

 

LS5633: The Art of Storytelling - Course Modules

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