This collection of stories, from the oral tradition, are designed as a resource for teachers looking for material to fulfil the requirement of the National Curriculum in English and History. It is one of a series of anthologies that put poems, stories, songs, plays and imaginative ideas at the fingertips of the busy primary school teacher. The book is designed to promote quality storytelling in language that is accessible to children while celebrating the wealth of material to be found in the oral tradition of cultures all over the world. Each story has brief notes on country of origin, age of story, source of story, context, age range appeal and time it takes to read aloud.

 

This book is part of a book series called Scholastic Collections .

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1993 by Scholastic .

Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.