Uncle Remus - What Folk Tales Tell

KidReadz is actually a service for children of the picture book age. The KidReadz Teachers blog is to help teachers better serve those children and help them connect with books. Both of these services are created and managed by Jacki Kellum.

If you are interested in learning more about Folk Tales, Jacki Kellum has prepared an audio-visual overview of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. Parts of this presentation are appropriate for children of the picture book age; but other parts of the presentation deal with the racial controversy that has consumed Uncle Remus. Young children are not actually able to comprehend all that is part of that controversy.

Ideally, children would be exposed to both Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus. Virginia Hamilton and Julius Lester have created some modern versions of Brer Rabbit. Hamilton's Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl is especially appropriate for children of the picture book age.

As teachers, you might want to look at the audio-visual overview of Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus, to more fully understand the history behind the Uncle Remus phenomenon.