Reviews for Creativity and tradition in folklore

The average rating for Creativity and tradition in folklore based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-16 00:00:00 Richard Converse Read for Newbery, would not have picked it up otherwise, would have missed a fun & enlightening read. Concise, a fast and enjoyable read, with lovely pictures. The notes and the vibe make it feel authentic and respectful, and I have seen some of the stories in more modern books, so I trust this as appropriate. The K-word just shows up in the notes as an alternate term for the 'corn' in the story, so I see that as no problem. I will keep and reread this book. I would love to teach it in conjunction with a collection of Aesop's fables, probably to children age 8-10. I wonder if Sansa memory chips were named after the WA'n musical instrument?

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-17 00:00:00 Kameron Duncan 3 stars. This is a collection of tales - I hesitate to use the term "fables" since there is usually no clear lesson - that the anthropologist/folklorist collected in West Africa. All in all it was a quick, pleasant read. I think my favorite was the story of the man and the musical tortoise. Courlander was a Caucasian novelist and scholar who specialized in Haitian/Caribbean, African, and Native American cultures and story telling, but he's most "famous" as the author of "The African" - the novel that Alex Haley copied extensively for his own novel "Roots". I read this for my 2019 Reading Challenge and my Newbery Challenge (Honor Book, 1948).