Users and Uses

Our collection consists of many different fairy tales, nursery rhymes, tall tales, fables, and many different types of stories.

How Should the Collection Be Used?

We have many different people who can use this collection:

Teachers, Parents, Storytellers, and Kids!

Teachers:

Our collection is at a teacher’s fingertips. Not only do we have thousands of picture books that follow more traditional fairy tales, but also we have the same story from many different cultures.  We also house fractured fairy tales and many other stories from this genre. Teachers can use our collection while teaching many different reading skills lessons (such as teaching plot and comparing and contrasting the different versions of the same story), but can also lead to social studies lessons about other cultures and customs.

We also have many other resources available for teachers for lesson plans and activities to go along with these stories. This will help teachers use supplemental texts while also having insightful and interesting lessons for students.

Parents:

Parents will love having so many different versions of their children’s favorite stories at their disposal. Reading these stories to ones children is a wonderful way to build connections as a family, as well as a way to learn about other cultures and story lines.

The many different versions of these stories, the continued reading of them with parents will help foster a life-long love of reading and learning about others.

Having access to many different versions of fairy tales, folk tales, and myths will also open children’s eyes to how stories may be told in different ways. This will encourage children to think creatively and to write their own versions of the stories as well.

Storytellers:

Storytellers are a unique group of people who would be interested in this collection because of the many different ways they could use this collection.

Storytellers may use this collection in story hours or literature studies at community activities. Storytellers often tell stories from memory, but need some sort of visual to help them to tell the story properly or to help them learn the story itself. 

As storytellers are also very creative, they may combine different fairy tales into one story for a group of people, and having access to many different fairy tales would be beneficial to that process. It may also encourage them to write their own versions of the fairy tales.

Which leads to…

The Secondary Users

Although our collection is geared towards teachers, parents and storytellers, many other groups of people may use our collection as well.

Writers:

Storytellers and writers may be interested in writing their own versions of fairy tales. This collection would be incredibly helpful for those who wish to put pen to paper and write their own fairy tales because it would be very easy for them to do research about the fairy tales, and find angles that have not yet been written for the fairy tales. This would allow them to write creative, fresh stories, or be inspiration for the traditional stories they grew up with.

Children:

Of course, we cannot forget the children in which the stories were written for. These stories have lasted the test of time because people continue to read them and still find them fascinating and inspirational. To ensure that these timeless tales continue in our culture, and others, the younger generation needs to fall in love with these tales all over again. Therefore, children will also be targeted by this collection, not only by the nature of the stories, but also by the organization of the collection and passion of the staff.