The Gift of the Unicorn and Other Animal Helper Tales for Storytellers, Educators, and Librarians

Engage young readers in stories they love while teaching important content with this fun book that features more than 50 folktales from around the world celebrating the animal-human bond.

‧ Encourages reading with rich vocabulary, engaging narrative, and vivid imagery

‧ Includes cross-curricular content with information about domestic and wild animals and their habitats

‧ Features stories drawn from a variety of sources, including folktale collections, oral histories, and science and sociology books

‧ Showcases the theme of cooperation to help promote teamwork and anti-bullying

‧ Contains exercises, questions, and suggestions for further study

Dan Keding serves as adjunct lecturer at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and performs as a storyteller, author, and folk musician.

Kathleen A. Brinkmann produces and hosts UPTV's The Stories We Tell, a program of recorded concerts, interviews with authors, and storytellers. She is also a spoken word artist, writer, and scholar of folktales.