Celebrate the World: Twenty Tellable Folktales for Multicultural Festivals

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H.W. Wilson, 1994 - Fiction - 225 pages
Folktales build bridges to other cultures! Enrich the experience of sharing traditions for your students with this fun, easy, and practical sourcebook. Noted folklorist and storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald presents 20 of her favorite folktales celebrating worldwide holidays. Each is presented in an ethnopoetic format that helps the teller establish the story's rhythm and construct an exciting, dramatic delivery.

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Chinese Tradition
6
A CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
22
A CHARRO DAYS CELEBRATION
30
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