A World of Stories: Traditional Tales for Children

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A World of Stories is a collection of myths, hero tales, folk tales, and fables adapted for children . The approximately 130 selections provide students with essential multicultural texts. The wide range of important selections are drawn from around the world, offering students in today's ethnically diverse classrooms a more balanced picture of children's literature than is offered by existing collections, which tend to focus solely on the Western tradition.

FEATURES:
- Offers a multicultural perspective with stories from around the world
- Includes 130 stories, arranged topically to facilitate comparisons across different traditions
- Provides students with helpful background material through section introductions and headnotes for each story
- Editors have strived to achieve a balance of male and female central characters
- Provides a balance between the traditional tales and their literary adaptations that helps students to understand the tenacity of certain stories across different cultures and different historical periods
- Includes section introductions, headnotes for each selection, footnotes, and appendices that provide important background information without imposing specific critical or theoretical points of view