For young school children, teens, adults ... who proposed the idea of a digital Ghanaian folktale archive. The digital versions of the stories have been co-edited by Dr. Laura Shackelford, Professor ...

An excerpt from ‘Folk Tales from Meghalaya’, by Sobhona Bhattacharjee, translated from the Bengali by Utsa Bose.

It might look like child's play, but writing picture books is an exact science. Mem Fox — who has just published her 49th ...

Jason Treat, NGM STAFF. art: SAM FALCONER. Sources: Sara Graça da Silva, Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT), New University of Lisbon, Portugal; Jamie Tehrani, Durham ...

I asked them if they would share the folktales of their youth with me, and within a couple of hours, I had recorded a dozen stories, or rather, fragments of stories. Around us, children pressed ...

African folktales teach important lessons about using water positively for the environment. The Enchanted Drop of African ...

Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103.

The B Street Theater is getting into the holiday spirit by holding a series of plays called “‘Tis the Season: Folktales and ...

English was always one of my favorite subjects. But when it came to learning literary terms, I lost interest quickly.

Nonny Hogrogian, an artist and book illustrator whose sturdy woodcut images and dreamy watercolor washes have entranced children since the 1950s in stories that included folk tales from her ...