One Hundred Favorite Folkt

by Stith Thompson (Editor)

A distinguished folklorist has selected the version that best represents each type of tale in this collection of well-known stories from all over the world.

Genres: Fiction

439 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 13, 1976) was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system, which indexes certain folktales by their structure and assigns them AT numbers. He also developed an alpha-decimal motif-index system (A~Z followed by numeral) for cataloging individual motifs.

Reviews

[HoneyBakedAmbs · Rating 3 out of 5]

One hundred would be a rich and diverse selection if you weren’t solely drawing from Eurocentric mythology! These got boring and repetitive real quick. So many wives beating their husbands and making unrealistic demands! It’s almost like these stories were mostly told/documented to justify treating women and non-Europeans like garbage. But I’m sure that could not be the case.

[Brianna Rice]

This book held many diverse folktales from different cultures. I would use this book with 4th-5th at any time to get interesting stores to use for story time.

[Nita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining collection of folktales mostly, with a splash of casual anti-Semitism smack dab in the middle of the book. It's titled "The Magic Bird" if you want to avoid it.

[Lisa Kucharski · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of folktales/fairytales... some familiar others are similar to the ones we all become familiar. Didn't read the entire book, so many of the tales were practically the same to another at times. Also many of the tales were very simple in their telling. A good reference book though.

[Kaye · Rating 3 out of 5]

The fairy tales in this book don't all have a happy ending. I would use a couple stories from this book to teach the students that not all endings are happy. They would then write a short story that did not have a happy ending.