HIT: stars & moon folklore

[Johanna Halbeisen Woodland ES <jhalbei@k12.oit.umass.edu>]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list and apologies for taking so
long to put it together:

Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
Arrow to the sun by Gerlad McDermott
Calendar Moon-Belting
Coyote places the stars is by Harriet Peck Taylor, pub. by Bradbury Press,
    1993
The Dancing Stars, a Seneca or Iroquois legend., by Anne Rockwell
East 'O the Sun, West 'O the Moon -- Candlewidk Press
The Falling Stars by the Brothers Grimm
Fire Came to the earth people-Roth,
Folklore and Legends of the Universe" by Asimov, Isaac.  Gareth Stevens
    ISBN # 0-8368-1234-4.
The girl who married the moon, Bruchac, J (in collection by the same title)
The heavenly zoo: legends and tales of the stars is retold by Alison Lurie,
    ill. by Monika Beisner, pub. by Farrar, Straus, c1979.  ISBN 0-374-
    32910-9
Her Seven Brothers_  Paul Goble (Bradbury, 1988) - a Cheyenne legend
How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun
How the Raven became Black"  native American tale
How the Stars Fell into the Sky by Jerrie Oughton
How the sun was brought back to the sky by Mirra Ginsburg
The Legend of the Milky Way". Chinese folk tale by Lee, Jeanne M
Keepers of the Earth_ by Caduto includes "How Coyote Was the Moon",
"How Fisher Went to the Skyland : Origin of the Big Dipper
Legend of the Milky Way  by Jeanne M. Lee
Legends of the Sun and Moon_ by Eric and Tessa Hadley
Little Peep by Jack Kent
Many Moons_ by James Thurber.
Meteor! by Patricia Polacco
The Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands-Dayrell,
The Moon in Fact and Fancy-Slote,
MOON MOTHER by Ed Young
Moon Rope: A Peruvian folk tale -- Lois Ehlert
Moon Trouble-Heldorfer.
MOON'S REVENGE by Don Freeman
Moontellers: myths of the moon from around the world by Lynn Moroney
    and Greg Shed
Mrs. Mooley by Jack Kent
The Prince of the Dolomites-dePaola,
The Prince Who Wanted the Moon   in _Tales from the Story Hat_, Verna
    Aardema, comp.  African folktale
Sky Legends of Vietnam, by Lynette Dyer Vuong.  (HarperCollins, 1993).
Someone is eating the sun by Ruth Sonneborn
The star maiden by Barbara Juster Esbensen, Native American legend
    which explains how stars came to be in the sky.
Star thief, DiNoto, A.
The Stars are Silver Reindeer-Belting.
Stars   The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet-Bruchac,
The Sun is a Golden Earring by Natalia M. Belting--
Sun Flight by Gerald McDermott
Swamp Angel is by Anne Isaacs (ill. by Paul Zelinsky) pub. by Dutton
    Children's Books, c1994.
Tales of the Shimmering Sky:  Ten Global folktales with activities retold
    by Susan Milord.  lore of the sky
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote-Johnston,
They dance in the sky : Native American star myths_ by Jean Guard
    Monroe and Ray A. Williamson, Houghton Mifflin, 1987. a collection of
    star myths from several Native American cultures.
Wake up, sun by David Harrison
West African story of Feegbah the giant pumpkin explains how the sun,
Why The Sun And Moon Live In The Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell.
Why the Sky is Far Away, A Nigerian Folktale by Gerson
Why the sun and moon live in the sky by Elphinstone Dayrell
Why the sun was late by Benjamin Elkin

Is It Dark?  Is It Light?" by Mary D. Lankford is "a book about the moon--
a guessing game of opposites--in teasing text and glowing  pictures."
Knopf, 1991.  (0394233816).  The book is about moon magic around the
world.

Look for creation tales - all cultures have them.  Some that come to mind
are the creation of the Pleiades Constellation, a Native American Myth,
"Evening Star weds Morning Star"  from So Say the Indians, by L.T.Jones
ands several from Virginia Hamilton's lovely book, In the Beginning.

Keepers of the night" by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac have
wonderful Native American stories about the stars.  There are also
activities to go along with each story.  It is available from permabound.
ISBN is 1-55591-177-3 for the paperback edition.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

July 1996 issue of Storytelling Magazine is dedicated to "Stories Inspired
by Stars"


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Johanna Halbeisen
Woodland Elementary School(K-4)
Southwick, Mass
jhalbei@k12.oit.umass.edu