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Famous folktale examples12/29/2023 To present their cultural knowledge and interpretations as meaningful aspects of the reading experience places value on them as students and as human beings. “Not only does this prevent monolithic and simplistic understandings of stories (and the cultures they are said to represent),” she explains, “it also offers children opportunities to potentially diversify their cultural knowledge in the exchange with other children.” And this can be huge for minority students, who so often fail to see any of their own cultural capital depicted in the classroom. However, according to research conducted by Annette de Bruijn, “Approaching folktales as representative of the social, cultural, or literary heritage of ‘different’ cultures can, however, promote stereotypical or outdated understandings of other cultures which undercut intercultural educational aims.” Instead, she argues, reading folktales should be an interactive experience, with children sharing their connections with the tales and exploring meaning with other interpretations, particularly from minority groups. Folktales for young readers have been used as entertainment, education, moral guides, warnings, and more recently as cultural landmarks and a way to introduce children to diverse perspectives. Now Corinne, with the help of her friends and even some of her enemies, must race against time to find out what has angered Huracan and try to fix it before her island home is destroyed forever.Ĭhildren and folktales have always gone together. She discovers the storms weren’t caused by a jumbie, but by the angry god Huracan. When a ferocious out-of-season hurricane wrecks Corinne’s seaside village, Corinne knows it’s not a typical storm. In book three of the popular Jumbies series, Corinne must use her emerging supernatural powers to battle the angry god who would destroy her Caribbean island home. This roundup of folktales for young readers from around the world is sponsored by The Jumbie God’s Revenge by Tracey Baptiste, new from Algonquin Young Readers.
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