AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FOLKTALES

 

Folk Art Facts

Just Folk. By: Stewart, Doug. Smithsonian, Jan2002, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p54, 8p, 16c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1320; (AN 5749848)

From Trash to Treasures. Time for Kids, 11/20/98, Vol. 4 Issue 11, p7, 1p; Reading Level (Lexile): 920; (AN 1329377)

American folk art's informal delight and humor. By: Andreae, Christopher. Christian Science Monitor, 3/11/96, Vol. 88 Issue 72, p16, 2c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1170; (AN 9607081889)

10 great places to admire American folk art By: Shawn Sell. USA Today, 10/24/2003; (AN J0E178199340203)

American Folk Art Museum website

Metropolitan Museum of Art Folk Art website

Museum of International Folk Art -- North America website

Book -- Folk arts and crafts by Sherry Bonnice (2002)

African-American Folk

Talking with Virginia Hamilton. By: Coles, Yolanda Robinso. American Visions, Dec95/Jan96, Vol. 10 Issue 6, p31, 2p, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 790; (AN 9603200071)

African American Museum Folk Art website

Books -- Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton (1995)
The People could fly by Virginia Hamilton (1993)
A Ring of tricksters by Virginia Hamilton (1997)
When birds could talk and bats could sing by Virginia Hamilton (1996)
Flossie and the fox by Patricia McKissack (1986)
Jump by Van Dyke Parks (1986)
Jump again by Van Dyke Parks (1987)
Jump on over by Van Dyke Parks (1989)

Appalachian Folk

Folk Art Jubilee. By: Noyes, Brian. Smithsonian, Oct2003, Vol. 34 Issue 7, p78, 6p, 13c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1180; (AN 10945049)

Appalachian Traveller folk art website

Kentucky Folk Art Center website

Books - Soap, soap, don't forget the soap by Tom Birdseye (1993)
Grandfather tales by Richard Chase (1948)
Sody Sallyratus retold by Joanne Compton (1995)
Old Dry Frye by Paul Brett Johnson (1999)
Epossumondas by Coleen Salley (2002)
Tops & bottoms by Janet Stevens (1994)

New England Folk

Abby Aldrick Rockefeller Folk Art Museum website

Traditional Folk Art website

Old Sturbridge Village (MA) website

Shelburne Museum (VT) website

Library of Congress American Memory Quilting website

Books - From sea to shining sea by Amy Cohn (1993)
The Baker's dozen by Heather Forest (1988)
Ox cart man by Donald Hall (1979)
Whirligigs and weathervanes by David Schoonmaker and Bruce Woods (1992)

Ohio folk

Ohio Memory website

Books - Johnny Appleseed by Kathy Jacobsen Hallquist (1993)
American tall tales by Mary Pope Osborne (1991)
Ripsnorting whoppers by Rick Sowash (1994)
Steamboat Annie and the thousand-pound catfish by Catherine Wright (2001)

Southwest Folk

Heard Museum (AZ) website

Museum of New Mexico website

Books - Jackalope by Susan Stevens Crummel (2003)
Alice Nizzy Nazzy by Tony Johnston (1995)
The Three little Javelinas by Susan Lowell (2003)
Coyote by Gerald McDermott (1994)

Teacher folk (storytelling, folklore, and general educator resources)

Caught on the Web. By: Isakson, Carol. Education Digest, Jan2003, Vol. 68 Issue 5, p79, 2p; (AN 8841612)

THE ART OF STORYTELLING: A COLLEGIATE CONNECTION TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS. By: McGRATH SPEAKER, KATHRYNE. Education, Fall2000, Vol. 121 Issue 1, p184, 4p, 1 chart; (AN 3726908)

What's the story? By: Towell, Janet. Reading Today, Feb/Mar98, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p7, 1p, 1 chart, 1bw; (AN 246944)

Storytelling molas. By: Clark, Sylvia T.. Arts & Activities, Jan98, Vol. 122 Issue 5, p38, 3p, 3c; (AN 86777)

Language arts: A success story. By: Hook, Mitzi Minnick; Kirkpatrick, Joyce. Reading Teacher, Sep94, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p94, 3p; (AN 9410261076)

Storytelling, myths, and folk tales: Strategies for multicultural inclusion. By: Zabel, Mary Kay. Preventing School Failure, Fall91, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p32, 3p; (AN 9604140467)

World Book Online website (CCS subscription database)

Virtual IMC - CCS school libraries website

KinderArt folk art lessons website

KidsClick directory - art and folklore websites

American Folklore website

American Folklore Society website

Storytelling in the Classroom website

Books - The Arts as Meaning Makers: Integrating Literature and the Arts Throughout the Curriculum by Claudia E. Cornett (1998)
American folklore: an encyclopedia by Jan H Brunvand (1998)
How to get your child to love reading by Esme Raji Codell (2003)
Noodlehead stories retold by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss (2000)
Collaborating to meet standards : Teacher/librarian partnerships for K-6 by Toni Buzzeo (2002)
Super simple storytelling : a can-do guide for every classroom, Every Day by Kendall Haven (2000)