[CALIBK12] Weeding the 398.2's

[Megan Fuller]

I recently set myself a task.  After checking out Debbie Reese's site, I became curious about the state of my folk tales.  Jan James, the woman who was the credentialed library media specialist before I came, truly loved folk tales, so I have a large collection.  But as we all know times change and we have to eye some things in new ways.  With Debbie's advise I weeded several Native American retellings, but overall was happy with what I have.  So now I am looking at the rest of the 398.2s. I have come across two Joel Chandler Harris books, Tales of Uncle Remus, and The stories of Brer Rabbit, copyright 1941.
 
I am in a quandry, while trying to explain trickster tales to the 8th grade I talked about Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, and my students do not know these stories.  They have heard of Anansi, but not Brer Rabbit.  The forward in the Uncle Remus is by Margaret Wise Brown, talkes about the Gulluh dialect of the S. Carolina, Georgia coast.  These stories are very much told in the "Dis, Dem, Dos." vernacular style.  I  love these stories and do not own any modern retellings, nor after looking around have have I been able to find a modern anthology.  Lots of single picture books, but not a collection.
 
So, do they stay or do they go? Does anyone have a vendor they would suggest for replacement?
Megan Fuller Aptos Junior High http://www.aptosjr.pvusd.net/library/ Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun 
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