Tales, Tellers and Texts
- ISBN-10
- 0756774837
- ISBN-13
- 9780756774837
- Pages
- 162
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04-01
- Authors
- Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Morag Styles, Mary Jane Drummond
Description
Explores the wide range of narratives in children's experience currently available and what can happen when children engage with them. Stories by Chaucer, Shakespeare and George Macdonald, for example, are considered alongside other genres such as first person poetry, oral storytelling from different cultures and the visual narratives of picture books. Popular multimedia texts are discussed while more traditional narratives are given a new twist in the form of contemp'y. historical fiction. Contributors include: Eve Bearne, Jane Doonan and Judith Graham. Three British storytellers -- Kevin Crossley Holland, Hugh Lupton and Michael Rosen -- reveal their thoughts on the creative processes that lie behind the narratives that our children experience. Illustrated.
