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OSI publishes book of local children’s folktales

June 22, 2023 Elaina Kersey

This week, the Ozarks Studies Institute has published Ozarks Tales for Children: A Storyteller’s Handbook. After many years of hard work, adapter Cherri Jones’ anthology of tall tales, animal tales, trickster tales, folktales, and historical tales (as well as Ozarks jokes and games) is now available! Complete with nearly 80 of the best illustrations done by students in Jennifer Grace-Duran’s art classes at the Greenwood Laboratory School, and family-friendly retellings of stories by legends like Vance Randolph, Douglas Mahnkey, Mary…

Greenwood Laboratory students illustrate forthcoming Ozarks children’s book

April 6, 2023 Elaina Kersey

This summer, the Ozarks Studies Institute, an ongoing initiative of the Missouri State Libraries, is publishing Ozarks Tales for Children: A Storyteller’s Handbook by former MSU librarian Cheryl “Cherri” Jones, and students at the Greenwood Laboratory School are illustrating it. Elaina Kersey, managing editor of the Ozarks Studies Institute, presented the project to art students in Jennifer Grace-Duran’s middle school and high school classes in late March. The K-12 Art teacher also gave a select few, highly talented elementary school…