Irish Folktales and Fairy Tales for St. Patrick's Day
Wednesday March 11, 2009
Get ready for St. Patrick's Day with the 10 recommended picture books, picture storybooks, and anthologies of Irish Folktales and Fairy Tales on my Top Picks list. One of the books, The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh, is a picture storybook about the importance of preserving family stories and traditions and passing them on from one generation to the next. Do you have a favorite children's book of Irish tales? Click on "Comments" below and share your recommendations.
(Cover art courtesy of Barefoot Books)
Comments
Please try “A Fine St. Patrick’s Day” by Susan Wojciechowski. The Irish brogue is already built into the text and the moral of the story is to do what is right (help someone in need).
My family loves Jamie O’ Roarke and the Big Potato, a retelling of an Irish foltale, written and illustrated by Tomie Dapoala.