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Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb
The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald

23 stories of thumblings from many cultures. Suggested activities for a unit on thumblings. Some of the stories are fun to tell, others designed to read aloud. Good for cross-cultural folktale comparison.


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Type Year Publisher Price Length   ISBN
Paperback  1993  Oryx Press  $29.50  184 pages  0897747283 

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"eminently useful for professional, storytelling, and comparative folklore collections"  ...Booklist


"can be used as an effective and essential teaching tool that can be used to address cultural diversity"  ...Emergency Librarian


"suggestions for presenters is right on the mark"  ...Territorial Tattler


"MacDonald’s book takes storytelling one step farther by involving the listener, thus making storytelling a shared experience"  ...Emergency Librarian


"MacDonald offers many suggestions for increasing the joy of storytelling and reducing the stress the beginning teller often encounters"  ...School Library Journal





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