Catch the Reading Bug SRC Workshop 2008
Storytelling Sources and Ideas
Kathy Maron-Wood, CLP, Main Children’s Dept.
Ian Eberhardt, CLP, Hill District
Stories in collections
“The Mosquito” pg 5 The Story Vine/Pellowski
“How Anansi Got the Stories” pg 75 Joining In/Miller
“Lulu Ladybird Beetle” pg 21 More Tell and Draw Stories/Oldfield
“The Elephants and the Bees” pg 134 Shake-It-Up Tales!/MacDonald
“Paca and Beetle” pg 131 Wisdom Tales from Around the World/Forest
“Brer Rabbit and the Mosquitoes” pg 23 Jump Again!/Parks
“Firefly and the Apes” pg 19 More Stories to Solve/Shannon
“Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle” pg 201 The Laugh Book/Cole
“Butterfly Robe” pg 16 Three Minute Tales/MacDonald
“Which Flower” pg 20 Stories to Solve/Shannon
“Why the Flea Jumps” pg 103
“Why Ants Live Everywhere” pg 105
“Why Ants carry Large Bundles” pg 107
“Why Fly Rubs His Hands Together” pg 108
“Why Grasshopper Spits Tobacco Juice” pg 109
How the People Sang the Mountain Up/Leach
“The Grasshopper and the Ant” pg 12
“The Ant and the Dove” pg 76
Aesop’s Fables/Pinkney
“Why Ananse Lives on the Ceiling” pg 7
“Ananse and the Feeding Pot” pg 13
“Ananse Becomes the Owner of Stories” pg 21
“Ananse the Even-Handed Judge” pg 27
“Ananse the Forgetful Guest” pg 33
“The Mat Confidences” pg 39
“Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom” pg 45
“Ananse and the Singing Cloak” pg 51
“Why Pig Has a Short Snout” pg 57
“Ananse and the Birds” pg 61
The Pot of Wisdom/Badoe
“The Ants that Pushed on the Sky” pg 43 The Child’s Fairy Tale Book/Chorao
“Why Ants are Found Everywhere” pg 28
“How Brazilian Beetles Got Their Gorgeous Coats” pg 59
How and Why Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read and Tell/Hamilton
“What Makes Brer Wasp Have a Short Patience” pg 119
“Being Greedy Chokes Anansi” pg 122
“The Cunning Cockroach” pg 163
“Why They Name the Stories for Anansi” pg 182
“Anansi Plays Dead” pg 207
“Anansi Climbs the Wall” pg 210
“’Trouble’ Coming Down the Road” pg 214
African American Folktales/Abrahams
“The Flea” pg 101
“Brother Rabbit and the Mosquitoes” pg 143
“The Conceited elephant and the Very Lively Mosquito” pg 163
Big Music or Twenty Merry Tales to Tell/Bleecker
“Grandmother Spider Brings the Light” pg 105
“Little Frog and Centipede” pg 116
“The Praying Mantis” pg 139
More Ready-to-Tell Tales from Around the World/Holt
“Where Butterflies Come From” pg 143
“Why Ants are Everywhere” pg 149
“Who has the Sweetest Blood?” pg 151
“Mosquitoes and the Night Monster” pg 152
“Bees Get Their Sting” pg 158
“Why Wasp has a Small Waist” pg 159
Tales With Tails: Storytelling the Wonders of the Natural World/Strauss
“Anansi’s Fishing Expedition” pg 1 A Pride of African Tales/Washington
“Poule and Roach” pg 32 Celebrate the World: Twenty Tellable Folktales for Multicultural Festivals/MacDonald
“All Stories are Anansi’s” pg 3
“Anansi, the Oldest of Animals” pg 9
“Anansi’s Hat-Shaking Dance” pg 13
“Two Feasts for Anansi” pg 18
“Anansi Plays Dead” pg 20
“The Liars’ Contest” pg 25
“Anansi and the Elephant Go Hunting” pg 38
“The Planting Party” pg 46
“Anansi Borrows Money” pg 55
“Anansi’s Rescue from the River” pg 59
“Anansi and the Elephant Exchange Knocks” pg 63
“How the Lizard Lost and Regained His Farm” pg 70
“Anansi Steals the Palm Wine” pg 77
The Hat-Shaking Dance and other Tales from the Gold Coast/Courlander
Folk/Fairy Tales in Picture Book Format
Ananse and the Lizard/Cummings
Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock/Kimmel
Anansi and the Talking Melon/Kimmel
Anansi Goes Fishing/Kimmel
Anansi Does the Impossible/Aardema
Anansi Goes to Lunch/Norfolk
Anansi the Spider/McDermott
Ant and the Grasshopper/Poole
Beautiful Butterfly/Sierra
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears/Aardema
Zzzng! Zzzng! Zzzng!/Gershator
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach/Deedy
La Cucaracha Martina/Moreton
Anansi’s Narrow Waist/Cabral
Anansi Finds a Fool/Aardema
La Cucaracha Martina/Moreton
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach/Deedy
The Windigo’s Return/Wood
Poetry
When It Comes to Bugs/Fisher
Insectlopedia/Florian
Flit, Flutter, Fly!/Hopkins
Little Buggers/Lewis
Insect Soup/Polisar
itsy-bitsy Beasties/Rosen
Fireflies at Midnight/Singer
Joyful Noise/Fleischman
A-V
CD—Cockroach Party!: Stories for Dancing, Drumming and Moving All About!
CD—Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears/Norfolk
Plus, Anansi and the Whipping Cord
CD—World Fiesta/de Las Casas—Cockroach fete; Anansi’s Hat Shaking Dance
Playaway—Anansi Time with Bobby Norfolk
Playaway—Norfolk Tales—How the Spider Got a Bald Head; Anansi the Spider and His Six Sons
Playaway—Rabbit Ears World Tales—Anansi
Miscellaneous
A Readers Theatre Treasury of Stories/Braun—The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Honeybee and the Robber/Carle—toy/moveable book
There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly/Adams—traditional song done in sign language
Crawdads, Doodlebugs and Creasy Greens: songs, stories and lore celebrating the natural world/Elliott