Eleven Turtle Tales: Adventure Tales from Around the World by Pleasant DeSpain
	List Price:   $12.95 Unit Price:   $10.36 You Save:   $2.59 (20%) ISBN-10:   0874833884 ISBN-13:   9780874833881 Publisher:   NBN; August House Publishers Category:   Folklore/Fairy Tales Pub. Date:   March 1995 Pages:   106 Format:   Trade Cloth Ages:   7 and UP Grades:   4 to 7
Subjects
ANIMALS_FOLKLORE
Description/Notes
Turtle carries the world on her back: this story has been told by different cultures around the world for generations. Like Mother Nature, Turtle is unhurried, wise, and enduring. She walks on land, swims in water, and breathes the air and so embodies three of the four elements of creation. We have much to learn from Turtle. Multicultural folktales for young readers-selected specifically for retelling, their cultural variety, and the array of roles Turtle plays-from trickster to advisor. Selected especially for retelling, their cultural variety, and the array of roles Turtle plays--from trickster to advisor--these folktales illustrate the 'many masks Turtle so effortlessly wears'. Included are tales from Africa, Japan, India, the Americas, and an ancient Aboriginal story.