Picturebooks, Fables & Fairytales (Reading Reflections Week 1)
-Once Upon a Time History Storytelling has a rich and beautiful history, from tribal chants set to rhythm that help along with tasks such as paddling a canoe or grinding corn or the tales of the bards from long ago, who used words and song, and music to pass news of the time. This is one of the first thoughts that come to mind when reflecting on Greene and Del Negro’s (2010) Storytelling Art and Technique . And learning about the first written story called the Westcar Papyrus, found on an Egyptian papyrus found between 2000 and 1300 B.C.E. How awesome is that! But storytelling was not only used to relay current news and recount heroic deeds, it was also used as a way to teach moral and social values and continues to do that even today. The fables from our childhood, where there is always a lesson learned in the end. I remember the tortoise and the hare in which the slow and plodding tortoise wins the race or the lion and the mouse, where you learn that even someone in...