Book description
Highlight the environment with these thought-provoking stories and activities!
Our relationship to the planet earth is at the heart of the single largest problem we face today. We have a choice: hurt mother earth and we hurt ourselves; care for the earth and we reap its bounty. People from ancient…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Earth Care as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book has over forty traditional folktales from thirty-one countries that speak of our relationship to the Earth.
This was my first Eco-Storytelling book, which I often return to because the stories are brilliantly retold. MacDonald is an American folklorist and storyteller who structures tales skilfully for oral telling - she also includes great tips for telling to live audiences.
Researchers, folklorists, and storytellers will appreciate the amazing detail and professionalism of the Bibliography and 'Tale Notes'.
I discovered my all-time favourite environmental folk story in this book, Mikku, and the Trees, a tale from Estonia that tells why trees…
From Allison's list on environmental storytelling for folklore freaks.
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