LibGuides: EDU291: Children's Literature (Valdivia): Children's Myth & Legends

Mythology LibGuide

Mythology Research Guide
This guide was created for ENG251 (Mythology). It contains many resources and book recommendations that would be of interest to students in ENH/EDU291 too.

Resources on Children's Myths & Legends

American Folklore - U.S., Mexican and Canadian Folklore; Tall Tales; Myths & Legends; Ghost Stories; Fables & Fairy Tales.

Solar Folklore - Stanford Solar Center - These myths, legends and accounts represent their culture's worldview, a peoples' attempt to explain, understand, and come to grips with nature's phenomena. This site wasn't written for children.

Sample Myth and Legend Books at PC

American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne; Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ8.1.O813 AM 1991 - JUV
A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, and John Henry. - Description from Syndetics
In the Beginning by Virginia Hamilton; Barry Moser (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL226.H35 1988 - JUV
A thought-provoking collection of twenty-five stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the world and humankind. With commentary by the author. "A must for mythology shelves."-- Booklist - Description from Syndetics
Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America by David Leeming; Jake Page
Call Number: GR105 .L43 2000
This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. - Description from Syndetics