Below are links to web sites with bibliographies,
texts and audio recordings of traditional tales, and background on oral traditions, to supplement
selections from oral traditions published in Crosscurrents of Children's Literature.
See also the page of Author and Illustrator Links for other web sites about
authors and artists who have collected, retold, adapted, and illustrated works
from oral traditions. In the Crosscurrents anthology, see the
Alternate Table of Contents by Genre for a list of works recorded and adapted
from oral traditions. Please send suggestions for improving this page to Tina L. Hanlon.
Aesop, retold by Joseph Jacobs, Harvard Classics, Bartleby.com
The Aesop for Children, Milo Winter, with illustrations, The Baldwin Online Children's Project
Aesop's Fables, John R. Long
Ananci Stories, Michael Auld
AppLit's Appalachian Folktales in Children's Literature and Collections, Tina L. Hanlon, Ferrum College
Beauty and the Beast, Rebecca Smallwood
Bluebeard and the Bloody Chamber, Terri Windling, The Endicott Studio
Richard Chase: Annotated Bibliography, Tina L. Hanlon, Ferrum College
Cinderella Project, University of Southern Mississippi
Digital Library of Appalachia, Appalachian College Association Central Library
Dragons in Art and on the Web, Tim Spalding
"Fakelore, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Children's Literature," essay by Eliot A. Singer
Feminist Collections of Folktales, Tina L. Hanlon, Ferrum College
Folk and Fairy Tales, Rick Walton
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
Grimm Brothers' Home Page, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
Museum of the Brothers Grimm, Kassel, Germany
Grimms' Fairy Tales, National Geographic web site
Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales, The Baldwin Online Children's Project
Internet Sacred Text Archive, John Bruno Hare
The Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project, University of Southern Mississippi
Joseph Jacobs, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Joseph Jacobs, tales reprinted in Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages
Joseph Jaccobs, The Baldwin Online Children's Project
Joseph Jacobs, Aesop, Harvard Classics, Bartleby.com
John Henry pages by Tina Hanlon and Tracy Roberts
Kemp Owyne in Mostly Medieval—Exploring the Middle Ages, Susan Wallace
The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea, another dragon transforamtion ballad in Mostly Medieval—Exploring the Middle Ages, Susan Wallace
LibriVox, public domain audio recordings of literature
Little Red Riding Hood Project, University of Southern Mississippi
The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales, NEH Edsitement lesson
Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Wayne State University
Mermaids on the Web, Tim Spalding
Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration, Rutgers University Eclipse program
Iona Opie at Candlewick Press (publisher web site)
Iona Opie at Walker Books (publisher web site)
Scholarly Snow White, Kay Vandergrift, Rutgers University
Anne Pellowski page, Minnesota Authors and Illustrators, Metronet library network
Anne Pellowski Papers, University of Minnesota
Charles Perrault's Mother Goose Tales, D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh
Gayle Ross, Cherokee Storyteller
Slavic and Eastern Europe European Legends and Sagas in Internet Sacred Text Archive
Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages, Heidi Anne Heiner
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