Myths and Hero Tales: A Cross-Cultural Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults

by Alethea K. Helbig and Agnes Regan Perkins

Book Overview

This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313299358
• ISBN13: 9780313299353
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"