Earth care : world folktales to talk about, [compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

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Earth care : world folktales to talk about, [compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

Title remainder

world folktales to talk about

Statement of responsibility

[compiled] by Margaret Read MacDonald

Instantiates

• Earth care : world folktales to talk about

Publication

• Little Rock, Ark., August House, 2005

Note

Originally published by Linnet Books in 1999

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Three green ladies / Derbyshire, England -- Treasure in the vineyard / Aesop -- The Farmer and his crops / Hmong -- Beast and tree / inspired by a fable by James Dillet Freeman -- Who is king of the world? / James Dillet Freeman -- Mikku and the trees / Estonia -- Hold tight and stick tight / Japan -- Spider and the palm-nut tree / Dan folktale from Liberia -- The Tiddy mun / England -- The New lake / China -- Fox rules the streams / Thailand -- Papa God's well / Haiti -- Two women hunt for ground squirrels / Tanaina Athabaskan tale -- Gluskabe traps the animals / Penobscot -- The Mountain goats of Temlahan / Tsimshian -- The Alligator and the hunter / Choctaw -- The Curupira / Brazil -- The Mosquito extermination project / India -- Gecko cannot sleep/ Bali -- The Golden plow / Rumania -- Botany in the rain forest / Liza Hobbs -- Finding the center / Ojibway -- Avvaiyar's rest / Tamil Nadu, South India -- Hidden divinity / India -- The Tailor's jacket / Jewish -- Love the weeds / Iran -- The Useless tree / China -- Too much sky / Bini folktale from Nigeria -- Just a little more / Portugal -- The Origin of Puget Sound and the Cascade Range / Quinault -- Chehalis -- Cowlitz tale -- Sharing the wine / China -- Don't throw stones from "Not Yours" to "Yours" / Jewish -- The Tamarind tree / Thailand -- Emptying the granary / European -- Planting for the next generation / Turkey -- The Past and the future / Mbaka folktale from Angola -- Plowing up the road / Rumania -- In your hands / India -- Frog and Locust / Pueblo -- The Magic garden of the poor / Kazakh -- The End of the owls / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- Tale collections with ecological themes -- More ecological tales to tell or read aloud -- Proverb sources -- Tale notes

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1449507

Dimensions

23 cm

Edition

First August House edition.

Extent

xi, 161 pages

Isbn

9780874837841

Lccn

99029785

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

u1449507

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• (Sirsi) i9780874837841
• (OCoLC)61452289