Tales, tellers and texts
By: Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond and Morag Styles.
Contributors: Styles, Morag.; Drummond, Mary Jane.
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Children's literature, English -- History and criticism
Description: "Tales, Tellers and Texts explores the wide range of narratives currently available and what can happen when children engage with them. Stories from the literary canon - 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. Exciting and popular current multimedia texts are also discussed while older, more traditional narratives are given a new twist in the form of contemporary historical fiction and through work with museum artefacts and paintings."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction:; title: Trafficking in human possibilities -- Gabrielle Cliff Hodges -- I. Oral narratives. 1.; title: Different, but oh how like! -- Kevin Crossley-Holland ; -- 2.; title: Betsy Whyte and the Dreaming -- Hugh Lupton ; -- 3.; title: Developing teaching as storytelling -- Grant Bage -- II. Historical narratives. 4.; title: Storyseeds: creating curriculum stories -- Fiona Collins ; -- 5.; title: Venturesome ways: historical fiction and the novels of Henrietta Branford -- Judith Graham ; -- 6.; title: The long road to Canterbury: children's Chaucer -- David Whitley -- III. Visual narratives. 7.; title: The art and the dragon: intertextuality in the pictoral narratives of Dragon feathers -- Tina L. Hanlon ; -- 8.; title: Tell me a picture: stories in museums -- Frances Sword ; -- 9.; title: 'Beware beware': image, word and apprehension -- Jane Doonan -- IV. Literary narratives. 10.; title: 'Play out the play': approaching Shakespeare's plays with primary school children through active storytelling -- Sarah Gordon ; -- 11.; title: 'A light in the darkness': George Macdonald's stories for children -- Mary Jane Drummond ; -- 12.; title: Monologues and spiels: the 'I' of my poems -- Michael Rosen -- V. New narratives. 13.; title: Past perfect and future conditional: the challenge of new texts-- Eve Bearne-- Name index-- Subject index.