The Man Who Lived with a Giant presents traditional and personal stories told by Johnny Neyelle, a respected Dene storyteller and Elder from Déline, Northwest Territories. Johnny Neyelle used storytelling to teach Dene youth and others...
Myths and folk tales
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Author:Neyelle, JohnnySummary: - Author:Henry, ChristinaSummary:
From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be...
- Author:Pyle, HowardSummary:
Robin Hood follows one of our favorite heroes as he embarks on various adventures and antics, recruiting the Merry Men from what appears to be every corner of Europe and pursuing his quest to "steal from the rich and give to the poor."...
- Author:OvidSummary:
Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. "[An]...
- Author:Clavelle, KarenSummary:
The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme...
- Author:Grimm, Wilhelm, Grimm, JacobSummary:
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their 'Children's and Household Tales' in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as 'Rapunzel, ' 'Hansel and Gretel, ' and 'Cinderella' would become the most...
- Author:Qaunaq, SakiasiSummary:
An orphan who is left on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is adopted by a polar bear elder.
- Author:Bruce, Scott G.Summary:
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls. Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have...
- Author:Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:
An anthology of traditional American Black folktales retold by the African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.
- Author:Dodds, JeramySummary:
Gods, giants, violence, the undead, theft, trolls, dwarves, aphorisms, unrequited love, Valkyries, heroes, kidnapping, dragons, the creation of the cosmos and a giant wolf are just some of the elements dwelling within these Norse poetic...
- Author:Dolzani, MichaelSummary:
Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. It asserted the need to identify common, unifying patterns in literature, arts, and religion. Although it was...
- Author:Jones, AndySummary:
Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, not in your time, indeed not in my time, but in olden times, when quart bottles held half a gallon and houses were papered with pancakes and pigs run about with forks stuck in their backs...
- Author:Yakeleya, RaymondSummary:
The Rainbow, the Midwife & the Birds contains seven Dene stories, as told by Raymond Yakeleya. "Flight Through the Rainbow" is about flying through a rainbow in a small plane and experiencing multi-sensations of colour. It also...
- Author:VariousSummary:
The identity of Mother Goose may remain a mystery, but the timeless appeal of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes associated with this cherished imaginary author has lasted for generations of young readers. This collection includes more...
- Author:Baker, E. D.Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Grassina vies with her older sister, Chartreuse, to see who will inherit the family's talent for magic and become the Green Witch, while each ponders which prince will be at her side during her "happily ever after."...
- Author:Simpson, CarollSummary:
In her third book inspired by First Nations’ stories, children’s author and illustrator Caroll Simpson explains the significance of community values. She introduces readers to a world of creatures like Sea Lion, Killer Whale, Dogfish...
- Author:Esperon, Maria GarciaSummary:
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of...
- Author:Meuse, Theresa, Stevens, ArthurSummary:
Matthew loves to play games with his friends and share his toys with them. But most of all he loves to share the special treasures that remind him of his First Nations culture. Perhaps his favourite treasure is the medicine pouch that...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
It was the closest kingdom to the queen's, as the crow flies, but not even the crows flew it. You may think you know this story. There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarfs; a castle,...
- Author:Eastman, Charles A.Summary:
Eastman, a Sioux educated in white society, kept his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indian's relation to the natural world. These six essays, told in very personal terms and coupled with seven folk tales, illuminate the...
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