Bibliographies on the Web - Folktales, Fairytales, Myths and More

Légende Dorée, Armand Point, c. 1899

Books, books and more books! They are the tools of our trade and we never seem to have enough. I know my shelves are bursting but in the words of the old folktale, there is always room for one more. My car should sport a bumper sticker that reads, "I brake for book sales!"

Whether you are a storyteller, librarian or educator, and the time comes to put together a new program or lesson plan,  it is always helpful to have bibliographies at our fingertips. Here are a few to help you scratch the research itch!

A Bibliography of Feminist Folktales
http://thslone.tripod.com/Feminist-folktales.html

A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, for K-2 http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/Indbibl/index.html

Annotated Bibliography of Jewish Story Collections - An extensive PDF file of resources compiled by Penninah Schram. http://caje33.wikispaces.com/file/view/Schram_Biblio.pdf

Annotated Bibliography of Trolls
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/biblio_trolls.html

Applit - Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults
http://www2.ferrum.edu/applit/

CanTeach - Folktales/Mythology Bibliography of books from various cultures.
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/theme17.html

The Center for Children’s Book – Storytelling Resources – Birds, monsters, fools and more!
http://ccb.lis.illinois.edu/storytellingbib.html

Children’s Literature Bibliography http://faculty.mville.edu/gangij/ecl_bibliography.pdf

Digital Storytelling Bibliography http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~jevogel2/lis506/bibliography.html

Environmental Education Resources Library -  “To assist Wisconsin teachers in integrating environmental education into their classroom curricula…The bibliographies contain teaching activity guides, videos, books for youth, and reference materials. All materials included in the bibliographies can be found at the Resources Library.”
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/wcee/library/bibs.htm

FEAST – Folklore, Education and Storytelling for Teachers – Family lore, children’s games, folktale collections and more.
http://bankstreet.edu/professional-development/projects/feast/bibliography/

Folk and Fairy Tales for Storytelling - Animal, environmental, Pourquoi, trickster tales and more.
http://www.wwu.edu/storytelling/documents/FolktaleAnthologiesTopical-Biblio.pdf

Fractured Fairy Tales
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/fft.html

Hmong Folktales and Folklore complied by Mark E. Pfeifer, PHD – You will not only find references to folktales but also to legends, music, myth and song. http://www.hmongstudies.org/HmongFolktalesandFolklore.html

Jewish Storytelling Coalition – Selected and annotated bibliography of current Jewish story collections.
http://www.jewishstorytelling.org/biblio.html

Sisters Choice ~ Active Heroines in Folktales - An index of books with annotations on strong women in folktales; a perfect place to start if you are developing a program around this theme. http://www.sisterschoice.com/heroines.html

Storytelling Bibliography – Story collections, flannel boards, puppetry, etc.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/t2l/bibl-s01.htm

Western Washington University – Bibliography Folk and Fairy Tales – From Africa to Southeast Asia, a wealth of resources from around the world. http://www.wwu.edu/storytelling/biblifolk.shtml

Storybug.net - You will find an additional list of annotated bibliographies on my Teacher’s Page at
http://www.storybug.net/teacher-webbiblio.html .

Karen Chace 2011  ©

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