[LM_NET] HIT: stories about the origin of stories and storytelling

[Ann Marie Gordon <agordon@LIVONIACSD.ORG>]

Thanks for all the help!

My original request was for stories which explain the origins of stories or 
storytelling, the way that one of the Anansi tales (in which he does three 
“impossible” tasks in order to win a box full of stories) does.  

Individual tales: 
Apples from Heaven by Naomi Baltuck is a great book with stories about storytelling.

The Snake's Tales by Marguerite Davol

Mirra Ginsburg's CLAY BOY doesn't explain the origin, but at the end it pictures a 
grandmother telling the story and how it has been passed down.  Also, JACK AND THE 
BEAN-TREE, by Gail Haley, shows a storytelling session on a front porch.

There's a Korean one in which a man collects stories in a sack, from which they are 
eventually spread to the world.  (Can be found in Korean Children’s Favorite 
Stories, by Kim So-un, and online as well.  URL below.)

Kipling’s Just So Stories include How the First Letter was Written and How the 
Alphabet Was Made. 

The Seneca story about the storytelling stone is found in a few places, in these 
books and also online (the URL is below.)
The World Before This One / by Rafe Martin
 “The Storytelling Stone” by Joseph Bruchac in Return of the Sun: Native American 
Tales from the Northeast Woodlands.
The Storytelling Stone” by Susan Feldmann in The Storytelling Stone, Traditional 
Native American Myths and Tales.
 “The Storytelling Stone” by Jeremiah Curtin in Seneca Indian Myths.
“The Talking Stone,” by Caroline Cunningham in “The Talking Stone.”

Weblinks:
http://www.callofstory.org/index.html

The Story Bag: http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/060.html 

Seneca story of The Storytelling Stone: 
http://www.planetozkids.com/oban/legends/storytelling-stone-legend.htm

Pourquoi tales/stories (French)is a good search term, but don't
use the Spanish, por que because it gets results that are vulgar...

http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/pourquoitales.htm 

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001005.shtml 

http://ccb.lis.uiuc.edu/pourquoi_2006.html 


Anne-Marie Gordon, Librarian
Livonia Primary School
Livonia, NY
agordon@livoniacsd.org
http://www.livoniacsd.org/primaryschool/gordon/index.htm

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, 
Go throw your TV set away, 
And in its place you can install, 
A lovely bookshelf on the wall." 

* Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 

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