FROM FOLKTALE TO "FACT-TALE":  Teaching Science in the Shape of a Story  by Fran Stallings

 article appeared in May/June 2002 issue of Storytelling Magazine

STORIES CITED

 "The Bitter End: Enticing agricultural pests to their last repast" by Janet Raloff in Science News Vol. 156 (July 10, 1999) pp 24-26 (http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/7_10_99/bob1.htm)

"The Tailor's Jacket" p 94 in Margaret Read MacDonald, Earth Care: World Folktales to Talk About, North Haven CT: Linnet, 1999. ISBN 0-208-02426-3.

"A Kingdom Lost for A Drop of Honey" in Maung Htin Aung & Helen G Trager, A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey & Other Burmese Folktales. NY: Parents Magazine Press, 1968.

Rachel Carson  Silent Spring. Econo-Clad Books, 1999; ISBN: 0808505165

Thomas Dunlap. DDT, Scientists, Citizens and the Public. Princeton Univ Pr 1981.

"The Fisherman and His  Wife" # 19 in The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales such as Pantheon 1972,  ISBN 0-394-70930-6 p 103.

Verna Aardema Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: a West African Tale. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1984; ISBN: 0803760892

"Once a Stonecutter"  p 50 in Sheila Dailey, Putting the World in a Nutshell: The Art of the Formula Tale.Bronx NY: H. W. Wilson, 1994.  ISBN 0-8242-0860-9.

 "The Mouse Bride" p 54 in Sheila Dailey, Putting the World in a Nutshell: The Art of the Formula Tale.  Bronx NY: H. W. Wilson, 1994.  ISBN 0-8242-0860-9.

Desiree Morrison Webber. The Buffalo Train Ride  Austin TX: Eakin Press, 1999. ISBN 1-57168-275-9 True story of the loss & return of bison to Oklahoma.

Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind NY: Harper & Row, 1985. ISBN 0-06-091440-8.

"Fortunately, Unfortunately"  p 114 in Sheila Dailey, Putting the World in a Nutshell: The Art of the Formula Tale.  Bronx NY: H. W. Wilson, 1994.  ISBN 0-8242-0860-9.