[CALIBK12] CALIBK12 Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47

[Emily Milla]

Why, I was born and raised on Brer Rabbit. Your students may actually be a little more familiar with the Disneyfied version than they realize. If any of them have ever been on the Splash Mountain ride at Disneyland, it is based on the Brer Rabbit story. Personally, I grew up in Georgia with both the Joel Chandler Harris and the Disney "Giant Golden book" [http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Uncle-Remus-stories-golden/dp/B0007HB2V2] version (which I still have and adore) in my childhood library, and I have fond memories of my family visiting "Uncle Remus' cabin" in Eatonton, Georgia.
 
Julius Lester's Uncle Remus : the complete tales is worth a look. Jerry Pinkney's illustrations are very nice. The ISBN is 0-8037-2451-9, and it is available on Follett Titlewave and on Amazon.
 
I also see The complete tales of Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris under ISBN 0-618-15429-9 on both sites. 
 
Take care,
Emily Milla
 
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:35:04 -0800
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Subject: [CALIBK12] Weeding the 398.2's
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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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