Tales, Tellers and Texts

Explores the wide range of narratives in children's experience currently available & what can happen when children engage with them. Stories by Chaucer, Shakespeare & George Macdonald, for example, are considered alongside other genres such as first person poetry, oral storytelling from different cultures & the visual narratives of picture books. Popular multimedia texts are discussed while more traditional narratives are given a new twist in the form of contemp'y. historical fiction. Contributors include: Eve Bearne, Jane Doonan & Judith Graham. Three British storytellers -- Kevin Crossley Holland, Hugh Lupton & Michael Rosen -- reveal their thoughts on the creative processes that lie behind the narratives that our children experience. Illustrated.Hodges, Gabrielle Cliff is the author of 'Tales, Tellers and Texts', published 2000 under ISBN 9780756774837 and ISBN 0756774837.