Title How to tell a myth / Robert Walker.

Publication Info.	New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., [2012]
	©2012

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Location	Call No.	Status
Plainville Public Library - Children's Department	J BOOKS & LITERATURE 808.8015 WAL	Check Shelf

Description	32 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series	Text styles
	Text styles.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Introduces myths and describes how to identify a myth by its writing style, content, and setting, and includes selected famous myths and explains how to critically and creatively analyze each one.
Contents	What is a myth? -- "Old Man Coyote makes the world" -- Characters in a native myth -- Dialogue & dialect: What and how it is said -- Setting: Time and place -- The plot of a myth -- Theme: What the myth means -- Creative response to the myth -- The first superhero -- "The twelve labors of Hercules" -- Heroes and villains -- Dialogue: Mind reading -- In ancient Greece -- A great adventure -- Life lessons -- Creative response to the myth -- Writing a myth -- Glossary.
Audience	Guided reading: P.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.0 1.0 149132.
Subject	Mythology -- Juvenile literature.
	Authorship -- Juvenile literature.
	Storytelling -- Juvenile literature.
	Creative writing (Elementary education)
	Mythology.
	Authorship.
	Storytelling.
	Creative writing.
	Mythology.
	Authorship.
ISBN	9780778716334 library binding
	0778716333 library binding
	9780778716389 paperback
	0778716384 paperback
	9781427188137 ebook
	1427188130 ebook
	9781427196927 ebook
	1427196923 ebook

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