Provides addresses for contacting storytellers, production companies, and organizations, lists educational opportunities and storytelling events, and includes essays on the use of storytelling

Product Description: Use the suggestions in this ABC Literacy Storytimes book to create varied and exciting storytime programs that lead to early literacy development and future academic success for your young audiences. Each of the themed chapters is dedicated to a letter of the alphabet and an animal or object that begins with that letter...read more

A collection of international folktales about storytelling and the role of stories in transmitting information, history, and values

A collection of international folktales about storytelling and the role of stories in transmitting information, history, and values

Product Description: Storytelling is a common form of communication that people engage in nearly every day. When elevated to an art, however, a talented storyteller has a spell-binding ability to bring a story to life. Now you too can learn the art and weave your own magic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it into something that is relatable on a personal level. In The Art of Storytelling: Telling Truths Through Telling Stories, Amy E. Spaulding enables the reader to learn how to develop this skill, while also discovering the tradition of storytelling...read more

Examines the imaginative oral storytelling of pre-school children who have had an extensive experience of hearing stories read aloud. The children tell rich and complex stories, and the author's analyses show that early interactions with literature can have great linguistic and cognitive effects.

Suggest ways for families to engage in the systematic practice of the art of storytelling, and provides examples of traditional tales and how they can be utilized

Product Description: In this practical and inspiring book, author Alison Davies shows how to use fairy tales to gain confidence, find romance, and discover your own personal yellow brick road. From Sleeping Beauty, symbol of transformation, to the 'rescuer' Prince Charming, to the scary, shapeshifting wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, the characters in these fabulous stories are embedded deep in our imagination and conjure up feelings that we can all identify with on some level...read more

"Wonderful!” (Grace Paley). “Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written” (Detroit Free Press). “Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie” (the Dallas Morning News). “Altogether original” (Dr. Laura Schlessinger). “This story will speak to the humanity of the reader” (Jewish Book World). The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness is that rare, magical book—a book that tells a good story but also shows us how the tales we learned when we were children shed light on our adult lives. Joel ben Izzy had the unusual opportunity to relive those lessons when he lost his voice and reconnected with his old teacher, Lenny, a retired storyteller. Through his meetings with Lenny, Joel rediscovers the wisdom of ancient tales and takes us on a journey into a world of beggars and kings, monks and tigers, lost horses and buried treasures—and in the end tells us the secret of happiness.

A professional storyteller journeys inside the world of stories to examine the lessons that they offer through their timeless wisdom, chronicling the events of his own life against the backdrop of some of the folktales, fables, riddles, and stories that he has collected around the world--including 'The Lost Horse,' 'The Beggar King,' and 'The Secret of Happiness.'

Product Description: Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan began swapping funny Down East stories when they were students at Yale in the 1950s. Their fascination and appreciation for Maine and its people triggered the production of several “Bert and I” records, from which 14 stories were selected for the first edition of this book...read more

Product Description: These stories about plain people sympathetically caricatured are universally enjoyed, although they just wouldn't work as well set anywhere else than in Maine. The unmistakable Down East Maine accent enhances the stories on the companion CDs and audiocassettes, while the book contains Mark Andres's wonderful pencil sketches...read more

A collection of thirty-seven traditional and adapted folk and fairy tales, original tales, true narratives, and ghost stories, told at the annual National Storytelling Festival from 1973 to 1990. Includes information about the storytellers, the tales, and the background of the festival.

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Product Description: Classroom teachers are just beginning to discover what art specialists have always known: storytelling and other expressive arts fire students' imagination and generate innovative, creative thinking. When the arts are integrated across the curriculum, content becomes meaningful to children and they are motivated to learn...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The murder of Buck Simpson leaves Vivian--ruthless, unscrupulous, and a pathological liar--a wealthy widow free to indulge her whims and make life brutal for the son she cares nothing about and the stepdaughter who has always been her rival

Product Description: Ghost Stories (Regional Wisconsin/Folklore/Storytelling). For ages 8 and up. A delightful selection of 18 spooky Wisconsin tales for reading or telling aloud, collected and retold by two experience storytellers. Pleasantly blood-curdling tales of things that go bump in the night: from helpful stangers who disappear to mysterious library patrons to tales of the famous Ridgeway ghost...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work explains the boundary element technique with diagrams and with listings of computer programmes for three methods. The authors use a system of highlighting key words and the book is designed for anyone in rock mechanics and mining sciences who has some grounding in the theory of elasticity...read more

Product Description: Book by Lehrer, Warren