How Turtle's Back was Cracked

How Turtle's Back was Cracked
Author:
Publisher: Dial
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Cherokee Indians
ISBN: 9780803717282

Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

How the Turtle Cracked Its Shell

How the Turtle Cracked Its Shell
Author: Alison Adams
Publisher: Benchmark Education Company
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1936258587

Did you ever wonder why a turtle's shell isn't one smooth piece? Read this pourquoi tale to find out!

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

How the Turtle Got Its Shell
Author: Justine Fontes
Publisher: Golden Books
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780307960078

Delightful retellings of turtle tales from around the world, plus fun facts about turtles, are sure to please all turtle fans.

When Turtle Grew Feathers

When Turtle Grew Feathers
Author: Tim Tingle
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780874837773

Choctaw variant of Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, in which Turkey assists Turtle in defeating Rabbit.

Many Peoples, One Land

Many Peoples, One Land
Author: Alethea K. Helbig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2000-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313064997

Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States. Each of these genres is considered in turn for the literature dealing with African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-American Indians. Taking up where their earlier volume This Land is Our Land left off, Helbig and Perkins have teamed up once again to identify and expertly evaluate more than 500 multicultural books published from 1994 through 1999. Both considered authorities in the field of children's literature, the two of them personally selected, read, and evaluated all the books included here. Their insightful annotations help readers carefully consider both literary standards such as plot development, characterization, and style, as well as cultural values as they are represented in these cited works. Each entry also indicates the suggested age and grade level appropriateness of the work. With the proliferation and ever increasing popularity of multicultural literature for children and young adults, this sensitively written volume will serve as an invaluable collection development tool. Teachers, as well as librarians, will find the comprehensiveness and organization of this bibliography helpful as a guide in selecting appropriate materials for classroom use. Even students will find this book easy to use, with its five indexes identifying works by title, writer, illustrator, grade level, and subject. Public libraries and school media centers will find much use for Many Peoples, One Land.

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 3583
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Folktales Volume 1: All About Tortoise

Folktales Volume 1: All About Tortoise
Author: Emma Umana Clasberry
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984552864

This book contains sixty-five old-time bedtime stories! Two opposite faces of Tortoise’s character are revealed here: the good and the bad. Tortoise, once loved and respected for his kindness, hard work, persistence, patience, wisdom, and super intelligence to dig out and solve the toughest puzzles or the most difficult and mysterious problems, is the same Tortoise who lost all that to lying, tricking, selfishness, revengefulness, greed, stealing, jealousy, and exploiting others’ weaknesses under the pretense of helping when he is actually out to hurt those he claims to help so as to achieve his goals. Parents, teachers, or others who use these stories for moral and life skills education should emphasize genuine moral values or virtues and also point out that how one gets to one’s goal should be as morally sound as the goal itself. So their discretion is crucial when addressing moral relativism, if any is obvious.