Past Stories featured on Tell Us A Tale
Some of my favorite stories are animal tales from around the world. I generally try to get one such story in each week; although I must admit that I just like the image Frank Riccio created.
To listen to any of the stories, just click on the appropriate segment.
Week of 7 March 2010 – European Tales…
Heckedy Peg, an English tale
Author: Audrey Wood (retold by)
Illustrator: Don Wood
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; ISBN 0-152-33678-8
Song: Marie Laveau
Artists: Nickeltown (live on Tell Us A Tale)
The Rabbi and the Twenty-Nine Witches, a talmudic legend
Author: Marilyn Hirsh (retold by)
Illustrator: Marilyn Hirsh
Publisher: Holiday House; ISBN 0-823-40270-3
Song: Our Next-Door Neighbor, The Moon
Artist: Tom Chapin
CD: In My Hometown
Rumpelstiltskin, a Brothers Grimm tale
Author: Paul O. Zelinsky (retold by)
Illustrator: Paul O. Zelinsky
Publisher: Dutton; ISBN 0-525-44265-0
Musical Bed: John Bullard, Bach on the Banjo
The Bremen Town Musicians, a Brothers Grimm tale
Author: Janet Stevens (retold by)
Illustrator: Janet Stevens
Publisher: Holiday House; ISBN 0-823-40939-2
Song: Side By Side
Artist: Maria Muldaur
CD: On the Sunny Side
Look There Is A Turtle flying, a Polish legend
Author: Janina Domanska (retold by)
Illustrator: Janina Domanska
Publisher: MacMillan; ISBN N/A
Musical Bed: Margot Leverett, The Art of Klezmer Clarinet
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Days of the Blackbird, a tale of Northern Italy
Author: Tomie DePaola (retold by)
Illustrator: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; ISBN 0-399-22929-9
Musical Bed: J. Rodrigo, Concierto de Aruenjez
Music: Raven
Artists: Reeltime Travelers
CD: Reeltime Travelers
The Gingerbread Man, a classic tale
Author: Jim Aylesworth (retold by)
Illustrator: Barbara McClintock
Publisher: Scholastic Press; ISBN 0-590-97219-7
Song: I’m a Little Cookie (Mail Myself to You)
Artist: John McCutcheon
CD: Mail Myself to You
Jack and the Beanstalk
Author: John Howe (retold by)
Illustrator: John Howe
Publisher: Little Brown; ISBN 0-316-37579-9
Song: Hey Jack, What’s in the Sack?
Artist: Barry Louis Polisar
CD: Naughty Songs for Boys and Girls
Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water, a Mpongwe tale
Author: Verna Aardema (retold by)
Illustrator: Victoria Chess
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers; ISBN 0-803-70412-7
Song: The Monkey’s Uncle (Walt Disney)
Artist: Annette Funicello
Rainbow Bird, an Aboriginal Folktale from Northern Australia
Author: Eric Maddern (retold by)
Illustrator: Adrienne Kennaway
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; ISBN 0-316-54314-4
Musical Bed: Stephen Kent, Landings
Music: Free Little Bird (Jan Smith Band live performance)
Shingebiss, an Ojibwe legend
Author: Nancy Van Laan (retold by)
Illustrator: Betsy Bowen
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; ISBN 0-316-89627-6
Musical Bed: R. Carlos Nakai, Desert Dance
The Toll-Bridge Troll
Author: Patricia Rae Wolff
Illustrator: Kimberly Bulcken Root
Publisher: Harcourt Brace; ISBN 0-152-77665-6
Song: The Riddle Song
Artist: Burl Ives
Where the Wild Things Are
Author: Maurice Sendak
Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Harper Collins; ISBN 0-060-25492-0
Song/Album: Wild Thing
Artist: Sugar Beats
