Look back and see : twenty lively tales for gentle tellers / by Margaret Read MacDonald ; illustrations by Roxane Murphy.

Collection of 20 folktales from around the world with a gentle tone including many that include singing and audience participation.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-
Other Authors: Murphy, Roxane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • The snow bunting's lullaby : a Siberian tale
  • Look back and see : a Tanzanian tale
  • Kanji-jo, the nestlings : a Mende tale
  • Domingo Siete : an Argentinian tale
  • Turkey girl : a Zuni tale
  • Little Cricket's marriage : a Palestinian Arabic tale in two parts
  • Please all ... please none : a fable of Aesop retold
  • Why koala has not tail : an Australian aborigine tale
  • Katchi Katchi blue jay : a Nisqually tale
  • Biyera well : an Egyptian tale
  • The strawberrries of the little men : an English tale
  • The elk and the wren : a Makah tale
  • The bear child : an Inuit tale from Baffin Island
  • Two women hunt for ground squirrels : a Tanaina Athabaskan tale
  • Quail song : a Cahuilla tale
  • Grandfather bear is hungry : an Eiven tale
  • Tiny mouse goes traveling : a Khanti tale
  • The singing turtle : a Japanese tale
  • The teeny Weeny bop : based on a tale from Australia
  • A penny and a half : a cumulative rhyme from Chile.