STORY COLLECTIONS

Catlore: Tales from Around the World by Marjorie Zaum. This is a collection of thirteen folk tales about cats from all parts of the world.

Dog People: Native Dog Stories by Joseph Bruchac. Illustrated by Murv Jacob. This is a series of five stories about the Abenaki people and the dogs who were their faithful friends.

Dog Tales by Jennifer Rae. Tricycle Press, 2003. 1582460116. 32 p. K-3. Six fractured fairy tales are told using dogs as characters.

The Kingfisher Treasury of Pet Stories by Suzanne Carnell. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 160 p. 0753456680. This is a delightful collection of previously published stories about pets by well-known authors including Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Betsy Byars. Combine this with Michael J. Rosen’s Purr…Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Cats and Speak! Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Dogs.

Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou by Sharon Arms Doucet. Illustrated by Scott Cook. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. 0374343284. 64 p. In a series of incidents, the rascal Lapin finds many different ways to outwit Compáere Bouki.

Look Back and See: Twenty Lively Tales for Gentle Tellers by Margaret Read MacDonald. H. W. Wilson, 1991. 0824208102. Stories to tell include “Tiny Mouse Goes Traveling” and “The Singing Turtle.”

Pig Tales by Kate Tym. Element Books, 1999. Paperback. 1902618505. 128 p.

Purr…Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Cats edited by Michael J. Rosen. Harcourt, 1996. 0152008373. 42 p. A collection of anecdotes about cat by forty-two children’s book illustrators including David Diaz, Janell Cannon, Steven Kellogg, and Diane Stanley.

A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies and Africa by Virginia Hamilton. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Scholastic, Inc., 1997. 059047343.

111 p. Eleven animal trickster tales including “Bruh Wolk and Bruh Rabbit Join Together,” and “The Cat and the Rat.”

Speak! Children’s Book Illustrators Brag About Their Dogs edited by Michael J. Rosen. Harcourt, 1993. 0152778489. 42 p. A collection of anecdotes about dogs by forty-two well-known children’s book illustrators including Symour Chwast, Alice Provensen, and Trina Schart Hyman.

Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit by Julius Lester. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Penguin Group (USA) (Dial), 1987. 080370271X. 176 p. Originally told by Southern slaves, these animal tales were collected by Joel Chandler Harris and published between 1896 and 1918. Lester has selected and rewritten forty-eight of the stories featuring Brer Rabbit, adapting the language and setting for modern-day audiences.

When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren and Their Friends by Virginia Hamilton. Illustrated by Barry Moser. 72 p.

This is a collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards and bats, based on African-American tales.

When the Lights Go Out: Twenty Scary Tales to Tell by Margaret Read MacDonald. . W. Wilson, 1988. 082420770X. Stories to tell include “The Cat with the Beckoning Paw” and “The Tale of a Black Cat.”

Why Lapin’s Ears Are Long and Other Tales from the Louisiana Bayou by Sharon Arms Doucet. Illustrated by David Catrow. Scholastic (Orchard), 1997. 0531330419.

64 p. Three tales of Compáere Lapin who practices his tricks on the Louisiana Bayou.