Soft cover STEP BY STEP oversized (15 X 15 inches) book, published by Macmillan McGraw-Hill, with a copyright date of 1994. This is the type of book that can be easily seen and read from the back of the room. It is approximately first grade reading level, but could be read and enjoyed by students in other grade levels as well. There are full color illustrations on each of the pages.

Step By Step Oversized Book Macmillan McGraw-Hill

Diane Wolkstein

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer

With the long-awaited publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital and important of ancient myths—that of Inanna, the world’s first goddess of recorded history and the beloved deity of the ancient Sumerians. The stories and hymns of Inanna (known to the Semites as Ishtar) are inscribed on clay tablets which date back to 2,000 B.C. Over the past forty years, these cuneiform tablets have gradually been restored and deciphered by a small group of international scholars. In this groundbreaking book, Samuel Noah Kramer, the preeminent living expert on Sumer, and Diane Wolkstein, a gifted storyteller and folklorist, have retranslated, ordered, and combined the fragmented pieces of the Cycle of Inanna into a unified whole that presents for the first time an authentic portrait of the goddess from her adolescence to her completed womanhood and “godship.” We see Inanna in all her aspects—as girl, lover, wife, seeker, decision maker, ruler; we witness the Queen of Heaven and Earth as the voluptuous center and source of all fertile power and the unequaled goddess of love. Illustrated throughout with cylinder seals and other artifacts of the period, the beautifully rendered images guide the reader through Inanna’s realm on a journey parallel to the one evoked by the text. And the carefully wrought commentaries providing an historical overview, textual interpretations, and aannotations on the art at once explicate and amplify the power, wonder, and mystery embedded in these ancient tales. Inanna-- the world’f first love story, two thousand years older than the Bible—is tender, erotic, frightening, and compassionate. It is a compelling myth that is timely in its rediscovery.

Inanna, queen of heaven and earth: Her stories and hymns from Sumer

Harper&Row

A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade

Arts & Photography

Samuel Noah Kramer

History & Criticism

Harper-perennial

A strange event occurs across the land when a little Chinese goose girl sprinkles her shoulders with water and begins to wave her arms, believing that she will sprout wings, fly, and enjoy all the beautiful flowers of spring.

The Magic Wings: A Tale from China (Picture Puffin)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

In this Haitian folktale, the greedy and plotting Malice asks the fat, awkward Bouki to dance the complicated Kokioko for the King so that he can win the prize money, in a story that includes actual sheet music for dance.

Bouki Dances the Kokioko: A Comical Tale from Haiti

Harcourt

8,000 Stones: A Chinese Folktale.

DOUBLEDAY

A collection of folktales gathered by the author in Haiti with comments on Haitian folklore.

The Magic Orange Tree, and Other Haitian Folktales

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

KNOPF

Magic Orange Tree

Rebound by Sagebrush

At the beginning of the world, it was dark and silent and nothing stirred anywhere, until a voice roused the sleeping Sun Mother in the sky, telling her it was time to wake up all the creatures of the earth. The indigenous people of Australia believe that their first ancestors created the world and its laws. They also believe that the world is still being created in a continual process they call The Dreamtime. Renowned storyteller Diane Wolkstein has crafted a powerful retelling of an Australian creation story, illuminated by illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft's authentic, beautifully realized paintings.

Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story

Bronwyn Bancroft

Harpercollins

The Glass Mountain

A king builds a glass mountain which any man who wants to marry his daughter must climb, but when Princess Raina tries to help one suitor climb it, she falls through a deep crack and is trapped in a deep cave.

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

HarperCollins, Publishers

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