Drawing Stories from around the World and a Sampling of European Handkerchief Stories

273 Pages·2005·1.3 MB·English

by  Anne Pellowski

Drawing Stories
from Around the World
and a Sampling
of European
Handkerchief Stories
Anne Pellowski
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Drawing Sto ries from Around the World
and a Sam pling of Eu ropean Hand kerchief Sto ries

Draw ing Sto ries
from Around the World
and a Sam pling of European
Hand kerchief Sto ries
Anne Pellowski
Westport, Connecticut(cid:1) Lon don
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ISBN: 1-59158-222-9
First publ ished in 2005
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The pa per used in this book com plies with the
Permanent Pap er Stand ard is sued by the Na tional
In for ma tionStan dardsOr ga ni za tion(Z39.48–1984).
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Con tents
Ac knowl edg ments .....................................vii
Ab bre vi a tions..........................................ix
Drawing Stories from Around the World..........................1
In tro duc tion........................................1
A Note on Drawi ng..................................7
For Those Who Feel They Cann ot Draw ................8
The Black Cat—Nineteenth-Century American ..............9
The Wolves, the Goats and the Kids—Nineteenth-Century
Amer i can,Eu ro pean,Mong o lian........................19
TheSmartShop per—Ro ma nian, Greek,Arme nian ..........25
The Smart Shopper—Swiss ..............................31
What Do You Think You Are?—German, Swiss .............37
The Key—Dani sh ...................................... 43
Per’sTrou sers—Swed ish ................................49
Light Bulb—Swedish, American..........................57
How to Get Rid of Mosquitos—Paraguayan ................63
Lit tleCir cle, BigCir cle—In do ne sian.......................69
GoodNight!—Ma lay sian................................75
RightAn swer,WrongAn swer—Ma lay sian ................ 81
RightAn swer,WrongAn swer(Sec ondVer sion)—Ma lay sian ....84
TheDohBird—Ben gali ..................................87
How Man and Woman Found Their Place in the
World—Chinese .....................................91
The Abs ent-Minded Judge—Korean.......................95
EKAKI UTA—Jap a nese..................................98
The Caref ree Girls..................................99
Is It Grandf ather? .................................103
Shall I Draw Your Portrait? .........................107
To Help You Feel Better............................111
TheOc to pus......................................115
The One That Got Away ...........................119
The Duck.........................................125
What Happ ened aft er the Rain ......................129
Panda............................................135
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vi Con tents
The Cheerl eader...................................139
Ci cada...........................................145
Watch Out! You’ll Turn into a Frog!..................149
Cat er pil lar........................................153
Santa Claus.......................................157
The Badger.......................................163
SAND STORIES—Aus tra lian Ab orig ine ..................167
TheRain bowSnake—Aus tra lian Ab orig ine...........169
Little Boy and Emu—Nunggubuyu(Aus tra lian Ab orig ine)185
The Litt le Girl and Her Grandm other—Napaskiak,
Yuk (Esk imo) .......................................193
What Can Happen If You Fall into a Hole—South Afr ica.....203
Hand ker chiefSto riesfromEu ro peanTraditions...............207
In tro duc tion......................................207
ThePuz zledPro fes sors—Dutch .........................211
Rab bit Story—Eu ro pean................................213
TheJump ing Mouse—Eu ro pean.........................219
TheBabySur prise—Eu ro pean...........................227
ThePeas ant’s CleverDaugh ter—Eu ro pean................233
Sources of the Drawi ng Stor ies..............................243
The Black Cat.....................................243
The Wolves, the Goats and the Kids..................243
The Smart Shopp er ................................243
The Smart Shopp er—Swiss and Germ an Vers ions .....244
What Do You Think You Are?.......................244
The Key..........................................244
Per’s Trou sers; Light Bulb ..........................244
How to Get Rid of Mosquitos .......................245
Little Circle, Big Cir cle .............................245
Good Night!; Right Answer, Wrong Ans wer .............246
TheDoh Bird......................................246
How Man and Woman Found Their Place in the World ...246
The Abs ent-Minded Judge..........................247
Ekaki Uta .........................................247
The Rainbow Snake................................247
Little Boy and Emu................................248
The Litt le Girl and Her Grandm other ................248
What Can Happen If You Fall into a Hole.............248
Sources of the Handkerchief Stories ......................249
Bib li og ra phy forDraw ing Sto ries ........................251
Bib li og ra phy forHand ker chiefSto ries....................255
In dex ................................................257
Ac knowl edg ments
My warme st thanks to Shigeo Watanable, Sachiko Saionji
Watanabe, Kiyoko Matsuoka, Tadashi Matsui, and the late Kazue
Ishitake, all of Ja pan. They have been su premely helpful in di recting
me to many of my drawing stor ies and giving me good clues so that I
could transl ate the stor ies into Engl ish witho ut distorting them too
much. All er rors of interpretation are mine.
Grateful thanks are also due to Devon Harle and Robin
Youngerman,ref er enceli brar i ansattheWinona Pub lic Li brary (Min-
nesota), for their help in getting items for me on interlibrary loans. I
had first read many of these items at the New York Publ ic Lib rary.
They were rare and oft en hard to loc ate, but I needed to check them
again firsthand, for the bibliography. What other author has had the
delightful mom ent of hearing on the an swering mac hine, “We have
“Hanky Panky” for you at the library”?
I also wish to thank the following, whom I list in alphabetical or-
der, by coun try:
Mrs. Shpresa Vreto of Albania; the late Jack Dav is and the late
Ena Noel and all my IBBY friends in Australia; AngelaEvdoxiadis and
Ruth Brown of Toronto, Cana da; Knud-Eigil Hauberg-Tychssen of
Denm ark; Genevieve Patte of France; the Baumann Family, Barbara
Scharioth, Klaus Doderer, and the late Hans Halbey, all of Ger many;
Bandana Sen of New Delhi, Ind ia;Murti Bunanta, ToetyMaklis, and
Ika Sri Mustika of In do nes ia; Nouchine Ansari and all my friends at
the Child ren’s Book Council of Iran; the staff at the Folklore Section,
Se oul Uni ver sity, Ko rea; Julinda Abu-Nasr of Lebanon; Ahmed
GhulamJamaludin,AsmiahAbd.Ghani,Hasniahbt.Husin,Shamsul
Khamariah and all my friends at the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,
Kuala Lumpur, Mal aysia; Joke Thiel-Schoonebeck, Cec ile Beijk van
Daal, and Rian van de Sande of the Nethe rlands; Irene Kulman of Par -
aguay; Sra. Lilly de Cueto of Peru; Kiran Shah, Sheila Wee and mem-
bers of the Stor ytelling Group, and memb ers of the Book
De vel op ment Coun cil, Sin ga pore; Eva Eriksson, Ulla Lundberg, and
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PerGustavsson of Swed en;SusanneStocklin-Meier and the late Elisa-
bethWaldmann of Switz erland;SomboonSingkamanen of Thailand;
Virg iniaBetancourt, Carmen DianaDearden, and many other friends
in Vene zuela who looked in vain for drawing stories.
In the United States: Ginny Moore Kruse, Kathleen Horning, and
NancyGloe of Madison, Wisconsin; Cara Olson Kolb and Sam Kolb of
Minnesota and California (for their help while with the Peace Corps in
Para guay);Mari lyn Iarusso of New York; Nancy D. Munn of Chi cago,
Il li nois; Vic tor Mair, Uni ver sity of Penn syl va nia; and Mar ga ret Read
MacDonald of Seattle, Washington.
Ab bre vi a tions
IBBY—The Int ernational Board on Books for Young People.
This is the org anization through which I have made
many of my best cont acts in the field of stor ytelling. It
has nat ional sect ions in more than sixty countries and
has its secretariat in Basel, Switzerland.
USBBY—The U.S. Board on Books for Young Peo ple, the of -
fi cial na tionalsec tionofIBBY.
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