Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by Hannah B. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn why beauty matters, how beauty is akin to as power in many stories, and how, as these stories got retold and rewritten (by men), the roles men played became more heroic while the roles women played became designated to looking lovely. Using Grimm's "Snow White" as a lens to examine instruments of femininity, Dr. Harvey explains how these stories are often metaphors for life.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harvey jumps into the 20th century to demonstrate how Tall Tales reinforce the ideals of the cultures where they were born. After sharing the stories of "Pecos Bill," "Katy Goodgrit" and "Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox," Dr. Harvey delves into how ballads and folksongs served as a voice from those who couldn't speak. She presents "The Ballad of John Henry" and "The Ballad of Casey Jones."

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harvey reviews the fundamentals of storytelling and expands on common themes that can be found across tales that span time and location, such as protection of family, being resourceful, demonstrating bravery, overcoming entrapment, and more. She shares her favorite tale, "The Wonderful Pot" from Denmark, and concludes with a Scottish tale called "Death in a Nut."

Download or read book Wonder Tales from Around the World written by and published by august house. This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harvey looks at the power of numbers in folktales, specifically the magic of three and seven. She notes how even the story formats are broken into threes: Beginning, Middle, and End. She shares the stories of "The Three Little Goslings" (the Italian version of the German "Three Little Pigs") and "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs," which is also a Grimm story from Germany.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many versions of "Cinderella," and Dr. Harvey takes you through the Italian tale by Basile called "The Cat Cinderella" and Perrault's 1690's French version. She walks through the similarities in motifs, with both stories focusing on a "rags-to-riches theme" and an "if the shoe fits" conclusion, but notes not all versions of this story had the iconic glass slipper.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harvey introduces you to a Norse tale called "East of the Sun, West of the Moon." This story introduces us to the theme of transformation - a theme that is both scary and exciting, and is a common in folktales to help us understand how we grow and change, and to teach the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Thumb is grounded in oral folklore, meaning it was passed through the ages verbally as the storytellers could not read or write. Dr. Harvey shares J.O. Halliwell's poetic version of "Tom Thumb" as well as a Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina" and discusses the differences between traditionally defined folktales and stories written by literary authors.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like the lessons learned in the stories Dr. Harvey covers in this lecture, the stories themselves can be deceiving, too. Dr. Harvey first shares the Hans Christian Andersen story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" and then "The Happy Prince" by British playwright Oscar Wilde. Both stores are often mistaken for oral tradition folktales, yet were literary tales by one author.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive deeper into the use of transformation in stories as Dr. Harvey presents a version of "Beauty and the Beast." Compare that version to the German story by Ludwig Bechstein in 1847 called "Beauty's Stone Sisters." Dr. Harvey concludes this lesson with an Ancient Greek tale called "Cupid and Pysche," which demonstrates how bravery can be the root of transformations.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars believe that the beanstalk in "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a reference to the Tree of Life, which is one of our most iconic global images. Dr. Harvey presents religious and cultural insights and more through the telling of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and the Norse myth "Yggdrasil The World Tree."

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get introduced to folktales and the various classifications as Dr. Harvey introduces you to the wide world of folklore. You'll hear the 1697 Charles Perrault version of "Sleeping Beauty" and take a deep dive into the meaning behind the symbolism and the importance differences between this story and the Grimm version we are more familiar with.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing with the triad theme, Dr. Harvey uses this lecture to explore the role of the masculine hero, comparing the actions, motifs, and quests of King Arthur and Winnie the Pooh as she shares "Merlin, Arthur, and the Two Swords" and "Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole." Through this lecture, Dr. Harvey defines the category of legends.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklorists believe that stories like Hansel and Gretel may have begun during the Great Famine in Europe, during the late Medieval age, about 700 years ago. Dr. Harvey shows us how the Scottish version has something else living in the house in the woods as she shares both "Hansel and Gretel" and "Mollie Whuppie." Both stories introduce the themes of triumph and besting evil powers.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the French and Italian versions of "Cinderella," Dr. Harvey presented a classic "rise" tale, but "Cinderella" is the one of the world's oldest "magic tales" with many versions, interpretations, and morals. Vasilisa the Fair" follows the traditional "Cinderella" story, but with many twists and offers the idea that there can be ambiguity in folklore characters.

Download or read book A Children s Guide to Folklore and Wonder Tales written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repetition and patterned verse are often the backbone to some of our most beloved tales. Dr. Harvey presents a wide-range of formula tales including, "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" from Norway, Joseph Jacob's "Henny Penny" from Australia, "The Gingerbread Man," and "The Three Bears" which was written by English poet laureate Robert Southey and therefore lends itself to being a cante tale.