Folklore
• Poems and stories passed along by word of mouth.
• So old that no one knows who first told them.
• Commonly known by many people in a specific culture.
• Useful in helping people feel like they belong together.
• Often found in various versions around the world.
Fables
– short stories featuring animals that teach a lesson about life
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Fairy Tales
– short stories about magical places and creatures
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Folktales
– short stories, retold many times by various people, that have become part of a culture
Legends
– short stories featuring the exploits of a hero, sometimes based on an historical person
Myths
– short stories explaining how things came to be on this earth or telling the early history of a group of people
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Nursery Rhymes
– short poems or songs for young children
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A Few Favourites
Codell,Esmé Raji.  Maybe Mother Goose. New York: Aladdin Books, 2016.
McDermott, Gerald. Jabutà the Tortoise: a Trickster Tale from the Amazon. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001.
Murray, Alison. Hare and Tortoise. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2016, c2015.
Opie, Iona, ed. My Very First Mother Goose. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2016, c1996. Illustrated by Rosemary Wells. [Nursery Rhymes]
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