TY - BOOK AU - Schmidt,Gary D. AU - Hettinga,Donald R. TI - Sitting at the feet of the past: retelling the North American folktale for children AV - GR101 .S588 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Greenwood Pub. Group KW - Tales KW - North America N1 - 2; The Native American folktale. On beaded dresses and the blazing sun; Paul Goble --; Trying to see through their eyes; Nancy Van Laan --; Retelling the told tales of Kah-ge-gah-ge-bowh and Arthur C. Parker; Barbara Juster Esbensen --; California Indian tales retold; Jane L. Curry --; My Cinderella : an autobiographical essay; Ann M. Trousdale --; Refocusing the image of the Native Canadian through children's books; James H. Gellert --; The African-American folktale. That's why I write; Patricia C. McKissack --; Across cultures : stories that say L'Chaim; Steve Sanfield --; Folktale decisions; Priscilla Jaquith --; Joel Chandler Harris and the legitimacy of the reteller of folktales; Hugh T. Keenan --; Br'er Rabbit redux; Anthony L. Manna --; The retold Western European folktale. Retelling folk and fairy tales : one author's approach; William H. Hooks --; Decision-making for retelling folktales; Maggie Duff --; The day after it snowed tortillas; Joe Hayes; (cont.) The Day It Snowed Tortillas and the Hispanic fairy tale in New Mexico; Ruth K. MacDonald --; Repetitions : oral and written story; Roderick McGillis --; The interlinking of text and pictures : a study of "The Three Pigs" / John Warren Stewig --; Mary Mapes Dodge and the recasting of Saint Nicholas; Susan R. Gannon and Ruth Anne Thompson --; The American tall tale. The heritage of the American tall tale; Steven Kellogg --; Comic tragedies/Tragic comedies : American tall tales; Ariane Dewey --; The Western voice of the tall tale; E.J. Bird --; Tales of humor and exaggeration; Bette Bosma --; North American tall tales as children's literature; Jan Susina; 2 ER -