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SOS: SEARCHING OUT STORIES AND INFORMATION FOR AND ABOUT ETIQUETTE AND POLITENESS
Advice, Comments and References from Storytellers, Teachers and Librarians
(excerpts from Storytell posts plus original research)

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1) "Anasi and the Pot of Beans" found in The Moral of the Story by Bobby and Sherry Norfolk.


2) The Talking Eggs by San Souci.


3) Another version of The Talking Eggs can be found in B. A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People.


4) Sleeping Ugly by Jane Yolen.


5) There is also the story of Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner (Story Cove: a World of Stories). After they get food, Anansi makes Turtle go wash his hands and feet and by the time he gets back Anansi has eaten all the food.


6) "Ladies First" is a spoof on some unladylike behavior. (Free to Be...You and Me (The 35th Anniversary Edition, Hardcover)).


7) Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Picture Puffin Books) is a good one if you bring in the modern-day consequences of breaking and entering and destroying property.
http://www.id.uscourts.gov/goldilocks.htm

The above is the site that explains how this story is used to teach students about the law. Fifth and sixth graders in many states go into a courtroom with real judges to try this case. The students play the lawyers and the jury part. And the whole thing happened because of bad manners and ignorance of proper etiquette!


8) The good girl-bad girl stories--like Toads and Diamonds - which demonstrate the rewards of being polite and nice to people (and the dangers of being impolite).


9) Almost any story in the Tale Type 480 Kind and Unkind Girl would work. These are the tales in which two characters have the same experience/opportunity. One is kind and considerate meets with a good end; the other is rude and horrid and meets with a bad end.
Examples include:
"Gallymanders" from Richard Chase, Grandfather Tales.
Mother Holle (Classic Folktales Series) from the Grimm brothers.
as well as Toads and Diamonds and The Talking Eggs, mentioned above.


10) Ruth Stotter has created an entire book of stories in this Tale Type. The Golden Axe and Other Folk Tales of Compassion and Greed.


11) Also, Sleeping Beauty (Little Golden Book). If the king and queen had just shown the good sense to have another plate made instead of not inviting one of the fairies to their daughter's christening, problems could have been avoided.


12) Saki's story "The Story-Teller" from Beasts and Super-Beasts.

Created 2003; last update 9/12/09