Through the Grapevine

World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell

By: Martha Hamilton, Mitch Weiss

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Paperback | 2 March 2006

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Winner of the Storytelling World Award

Have you ever played the game "Telephone" (or "Gossip"), where one person whispers a sentence to another and that person whispers it to the next? If you have, you know that by the time the sentence gets around a circle of people, it has almost always changed, sometimes drastically. In the same way, stories are passed "through the grapevine," they grow and change and take on many forms.

The stories in this book show just how powerful the grapevine can be. Most of them have been making rounds for hundreds of years. Many of them are found in slightly (or very) different forms in countries thousands of miles apart. All of them are fun to read out loud, and especially fun to tell. Each story has tips for telling the story without the book, and the authors encourage budding tellers to "take these stories and make them your own." These multicultural stories will teach readers the importance of caring, fairness and respect.

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Kids & Children's Books Children, Teenagers & Young Adults (YA) Fiction Traditional Stories for Children Short Stories for Children & Teenagers

Where the Stories Come From (Map)	p. 10
Introduction	p. 13
Stories
The Bell That Knew the Truth (China)	p. 19
The Boy Who Battled the Troublesome Troll (Norway)	p. 22
The Tail Trade (Canada (Maliseet))	p. 25
The Woodcutter and the River Demon (Russia)	p. 27
Taking the Bad with the Good (Congo)	p. 30
The Baker's Daughter (England)	p. 33
One Good Trick Deserves Another (Tibet)	p. 36
Sweet or Sour? (Greece (Aesop))	p. 39
The Fearsome Monster in Hare's House (Kenya/Tanzania (Masai))	p. 41
The Argument Between the Sea and the Sky (Philippines)	p. 45
Scrambled Eggs (Denmark)	p. 47
The Thief Who Aimed to Please (Eastern Europe (Jewish))	p. 50
The Big, Wide-Mouth Frog (United States)	p. 52
Watermelons and Walnuts (Turkey)	p. 54
It's About to Fall! (Mexico)	p. 57
King of the Birds (Wales)	p. 60
The Hero of Holland (Holland)	p. 62
The Knee-High Man Grows Up (United States (African-American))	p. 65
Rabbit's Riding Horse (Puerto Rico)	p. 68
The King and the Wrestler (India)	p. 71
The Blazing Rice Fields (Japan)	p. 73
Ah-Choo! (Malaysia)	p. 76
The Silent Witness (Iran)	p. 79
Turtle Returns a Favor (Ghana (Ashanti))	p. 82
Just a Drop of Honey (Burma/Thailand)	p. 86
Monkey Gets the Last Laugh (Brazil)	p. 89
Why Sun and Moon Live in the Sky (Nigeria (Efik))	p. 92
The Gorilla That Escaped (United States)	p. 95
The Jester's Last Trick (Poland)	p. 98
The Seal Woman (Iceland)	p. 102
The Emperor's Secret (Serbia)	p. 105
General Tips for Telling Stories	p. 109
Follow-Up Activities	p. 117
Story Sources	p. 123
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