Fables From Africa

Author : Timothy Knapman,Brian Gray,Elizabeth Laird,Fiona MacDonald,Michaela Morgan,Narinder Dhami
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198469500

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Fables from Africa by Timothy Knapman,Brian Gray,Elizabeth Laird,Fiona MacDonald,Michaela Morgan,Narinder Dhami Pdf

These exciting new TreeTops Myths and Legends are guaranteed to appeal to all your junior readers - whatever their cultural background, gender or enthusiasms. These are the oldest and most enduring stories in the world, retold by leading contemporary children's authors to bring out all of theaction, drama, humour and depth of the original stories in a way that makes them as exciting and meaningful today as ever.The strand is comprised of 24 books, telling a total of around 65 traditional stories from around the world. All of the stories are fully illustrated with stunning, vibrant images. The stories are carefully levelled, making them accessible to the average 7-11 year old reader. A thought-provokingletter from the author explains something about the background of the stories and the process of writing or retelling them. The letter also encourages the reader to make links between stories in a collection - prompting a fascinating investigation of the similarities and differences between storiesthat have evolved from different cultures around the world.Free teaching notes with each pack offer suggestions on how to develop higher order comprehension and writing skills. They also provide short introductions to many of the stories and discussion points to promote meaningful speaking and listening, and reflective reading. The stories are ideal formaking strong links to other areas of curriculum.

Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486149813

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West African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson Pdf

Collection of traditional folk tales introduces a host of interesting people and unusual animals — among them "The Cricket and the Toad," "The Tortoise and His Broken Shell," and "The Boy in the Drum."

Author : Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486110028

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African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson Pdf

Entertaining stories handed down from generation to generation among tribal cultures include "The Magic Crocodile," "The Hare and the Crownbird," "The Boy in the Drum," 15 others. 19 illustrations.

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780871407566

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The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar Pdf

Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images

Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0299130649

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Parables and Fables by V. Y. Mudimbe Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye The word tyrant carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the nature of tyranny in all of its forms political, cultural, familial, and erotic. Poems about Stalin, Lenin, and Castro appear beside poems about deeply personal histories. The result is a powerful exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated and informed by larger, more despotic forces. Winner, Midwest Book Award for Poetry, Midwest Independent Publishers Association"

Author : James Albert Honey
Publisher : Earle Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408692646

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South-African Folk-Tales by James Albert Honey Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : African tales - Anthologies
ISBN : 023750670X

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Fables from Africa by Jan Knappert Pdf

Author : Winifred Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996488227

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African Fables by Winifred Pearce Pdf

As a young woman in the 1920s, Winifred Pearce left the safety and comfort of her home in England to follow her husband to Rhodesia, the country now known as Zimbabwe. While Winifred's husband worked on the family's farm, she raised the couple's two young children. While Winifred was in Africa, an old Rhodesian man named M'Dala shared with her a handful of fables that had been passed down by word of mouth in his village. Winifred wrote down these stories and tucked them away for decades. Today, Winifred's daughter and great-granddaughters share these stories with young and old readers alike, pairing each fable alongside beautiful and original illustrations. The underlying themes of these simple stories tackle such universal topics as love and sacrifice, greed and suspicion, sickness, and questions of our origins and survival. Appealing to children and anyone interested in Africa, this collection is a valuable addition to any family's home library.

Author : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395539633

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Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell Pdf

Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

Author : Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947350064

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The Hare and Baboon and Other Stories by Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo Pdf

The Hare and Baboon and other Stories is a collection of 7 fables from 7 different countries on the African continent: Nigeria, Togo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Cameroon, and Cote d'Ivoire. These tales are filled with the warmth of Africa and offer a glimpse into the cultures they are set in. They are filled with talking animals and adventurous quests. They generally include morals that teach us to be better people. Among other things, the stories explain how the tortoise's shell became cracked, and how fire came to earth. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration painted by the artist Thamba Tabvuma.

Author : Dylan Pritchett
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684440276

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The First Music by Dylan Pritchett Pdf

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When the animals get together in the jungle, they discover that the noise that they have been making is indeed music. Celebrated author and master storyteller, Dylan Pritchett weaves a tale that helps us discover that we all have music inside just waiting to come out when the time is right. This original award winning story is based on the model of traditional African folktales.

Author : Gcina Mhlophe
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000095298208

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Stories of Africa by Gcina Mhlophe Pdf

Mhlophe tells stories from African folklore.

Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155751

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South-African Folk-Tales by James A. Honey Pdf

This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000078222043

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The Orphan Girl and Other Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Orphan Girl includes a fascinating introduction exploring the roots of the storytelling tradition in the history and culture of West Africa. Each country is represented by several stories, a map and brief information. To compile these tales, Kent State professor and storyteller Buchi Offodile searched villages for elders who remembered the old stories. These 41 tales are culled from a lifetime of listening, reading, and researching.

Author : Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947350056

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The Hare and Baboon and Other Stories by Kandie Oriade,Hamissou Samari,Sipho Ndlela,Thamba Tabvuma,Yuri Santos,Nina Taka,Ousmane Diallo Pdf

The Hare and Baboon and other Stories is a collection of 7 fables from 7 different countries on the African continent: Nigeria, Togo, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Cameroon, and Cote d'Ivoire. These tales are filled with the warmth of Africa and offer a glimpse into the cultures they are set in. They are filled with talking animals and adventurous quests. They generally include morals that teach us to be better people. Among other things, the stories explain how the tortoise's shell became cracked, and how fire came to earth. Each story is accompanied by an original illustration painted by the artist Thamba Tabvuma.