Secular CM: Literature

Folk Tales/Mythology/Fairy Tales:

• Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons,” by Joseph Bruchac, Jonathan London and Thomas Locker
• The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories About Little People,” by John Bierhorst (Ed.) and Ron Hilbert Coy
• Myth-o-Mania series, by Kate McMullan
• Jim Weiss stories on cd
• Sherwood Smith–recommended fantasy books
• “Favorite Medieval Tales” retold by Mary Pope Osborne
• “Oxford Myths and Legends”–Oxford University Press series
• Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age Of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
• With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South by Nancy Van Laan and Scott Cook

Literature:

• books by Edith Nesbit
• SearchLIT (online texts)

Picture Books On Shakespeare–

• Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
• Will’s Quill, or, How a Goose Saved Shakespeare by Don Freeman
• William Shakespeare & the Globe by Aliki
• All the World’s a Stage, by Rebecca Piatt Davidson

Children’s Illustrated versions of Shakespeare–

• Stories from Shakespeare: Six Dramatic Tales Retold for Children” retold by Nicola Baxter   (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and Antony & Cleopatra)
• “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest” both retold by Bruce Coville
• The Best of Shakespeare” by E. Nesbit (The Merchant of Venice, Tempest, As You Like It and seven others)\

Websites to find info and recordings/movies about Shakespeare–

• Bardolatry
• Ages of Man, by William Shakespeare (audio book)
• The Complete Archangel Shakespeare (audio book)
• Naxos Audio Books
• Fire the Imagination (put Shakespeare in the search box on the site)
• Macbeth DVD
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream DVD

Poetry:

• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson and Tasha Tudor
• Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (Read & Hear) by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, and X.J. Kennedy
• Poetry Projects

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