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WWU MOTley Bibliography 2008: "Hero Tales"

We love it when some of your students are familiar with the literature we dramatize! We will have a few more stories, poems and songs than this by tour time, but this is what we have so far:

All the Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet, by Barbara Helen Berger.
ISBN: 0-399-23387-3.

The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale, retold by Mary Casanova.
ISBN: 0-689-82906-X.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, by Jeanette Winter.
ISBN-13: 978-0152054458

Peppe The Lamplighter, Elisa Bartone.
ISBN: 0-688-10268-9.

“Rosha and the Sun,” from Fiesta Feminina: Celebrating Women in Mexican Folktale, retold by Mary-Joan Gerson. ISBN: 1-84148-365-6.

Seven Blind Mice, by Ed Young.
ISBN-13: 978-0698118959

Subira Subira, by Tololwa M. Mollel.
ISBN: 0-395-91809-X

The Warrior Maiden: A Hopi Legend, by Ellen Schecter.
ISBN: 0-8368-1696-X.