I received a lot of suggestions to use inter-library loan (which we did).
What I was seeking was if others have seen enough usage at this level to
justify owning 10-20 titles of our own. Some of you gave me great ideas of
titles to buy.
Perhaps most importantly, I posed this same question to the English &
Special Ed. Departments. There was enough positive response that it's time
to start shopping.
Cindy Rogers, Librarian
Weslaco East High School
Weslaco, TX
crogers@wisd.us
Here's what others had to say:
I have a small collection of books with collections of fairy tales, such as
English Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, Treasury of..., Blue Fairy Book, Hans
Christian Anderson, Grimm Bros., Scandinavian Fairy Tales, Russian Fairy
Tales, etc. For special projects (in the classroom, NOT to check out to
students), I often supplement my collection with picture books through
interlibrary loan from the elementary school campuses.
Betty Potter, Librarian
Midland Freshman H.S.
Midland, Texas
Why don't you get Moss Gown by Hooks. It is a Cinderella story but also has
elements of King Lear.
Cindy: You can locate the entire set of Lang's fairy tales, Perrault, Grimm
and Hans Christian Anderson
at http://store.doverpublications.com. The titles are all under $ 10. so you
can afford multiple copies.
There are many good versions of the oringinal tales plus variations
Cinderella, Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood on the Internet, many are in
public domain.
Linda A. Sears Harris County Carver Middle School, sears-l@harris.k12.ga.us
I don't know about your curriculum but the fairy tales I've purchased were
bought to support English classes. I bought the Arabian Nights and Aesops
Fables to support the English curriculum. Now German classes are researching
the Brother's Grimm so we need those fairy tales. They may only be used once
or twice a year but I feel they're worth it. Also we get requests from the
elementary buildings in the district when they're doing a large unit and
need extra books.
Jeanne Carpenter
Media Specialist
Strongsville High School Phone: 440.572.7100
20025 Lunn Road Fax Number: 440.572.7117
Strongsville, OH 44149
Email: carpenterj@strongnet.org
I think I would be inclined to purchase some general collections of fairy
tales - books with mutiple stories in them - perhaps 25-30 or so.
And then, when the teacher assigns the project contact the elementary
libraries in the district and ask to borrow a selection of 25 or 30 fairy
tale picture books - the kind that are beautifully illustrated and have just
one story per book. Perhaps you can go over the first year and select the
ones that you think would work. that way you could make a list of titles
that you could borrow on a yearly basis. Most elem libraries have large
fairy tale collections and would not find it a hardship to loan a group of
them for a month to 6 weeks.
Jacquie
We have several collections of various fairy tales. They don't get used
often...perhaps twice a year.
Pamela McGhee
Librarian/District Coordinator
Brownwood High School
Brownwood, TX 76801
325-646-9549
325-643-1965 FAX
pamela.mcghee@netxv.net
I think fairy tales are essential when studying world cultures. I have a
friend who uses children's literature with her high school geography
classes. If you are going to put more books into the 398.2 section, you
might want to get fairy tales and folk tales from different countries.
I do an around-the-world unit with some of my students and these are some
examples which might work for you:
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave (Russia) Ye Shen (Chinese Cinderella) Lon
Po Po (Chinese Little Red Riding Hood) The Dragon Prince (Chinese Beauty &
the Beast) Tam Lin (Scotland) Latin American Folktale series by Melinda
Lilly (Song of the Sun, The Snake's Toothache, Mira and the Stone Tortoise
etc.) Tales of Uncle Remus American Tall Tales
I especially love the Cinderella stories from other cultures. I do a unit
on those as well. A great source for folktales and fairy tales from other
cultures is Shen's books. www.shens.com I have more but don't have time to
run to the shelves. I know I am in an elementary school but these are all
appropriate for secondary.
Hope this helps,
Lynn
Lynn Butler, LMS
Lamar Elementary Library
San Angelo, Texas
"Reading is a Window to the World!"
We have a teacher who uses them to teach, for example, parody,e.g., The true
story of the three little pigs by A. Wolf. We don't have very many, but the
few we have are used occasionally.
Lindy
Lindy Hutchison, Librarian
Sweeny HS Library
Sweeny, TX
lhutchison@mail.sweeny.isd.esc4.net
If you have an early childhood development class, they might also use folk
and fairy tales.
The art department might like to see the newest illustrated children's
literature (a good justification for all the Caldecott winners)
--
Kate Stirk, Librarian
North Metro Technical College; Acworth, GA, USA
17 years a Media Specialist in Central Florida
KateStirk@comcast.net
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