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A Storytelling Bookshelf for Teachers

Essential Books About Storytelling in the Classroom
World Folktale Anthologies For Storytellers
Books About Collecting Family Stories

This basic book collection for teachers on the art of storytelling and the supporting anthologies of world folktales provides easy-to-use materials to explore storytelling in the classroom. Storytelling is an enjoyable way to enhance students' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Essential Books about Storytelling in the Classroom

Beyond The Beanstalk
Interdisciplinary Learning Through Storytelling
by Lynn Rubright (ISBN 0-435-07028-2)
Heinemann Publisher
361 Hanover Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
$21

Storyteller Storyteacher
Discovering the Power of Storytelling for Teaching and Living
by Marni Gillard (ISBN 1-57110-014-8)
Stenhouse Publishers
226 York Street
York, ME 03909
$19.50

Tales As Tools
The Power of Storytelling in the Classroom
Edited by The National Storytelling Association (ISBN 1-879991-15-2)
The National Storytelling Press
PO Box 309
Jonesborough, TN 37659
$19.95

The Storyteller's Start-Up Book
Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales
by Margaret Read MacDonald (ISBN 0-87483-305-1)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$14.95

Children Tell Stories
A Teaching Guide
by Martha and Mitch Weiss (ISBN
Richard C. Owen Publishers, Inc.
PO Box 585
Katonah, NY 10536
$21.95

The Storytelling Coach
How to Listen, Praise, and Bring Out People's Best
by Doug Lipman (ISBN 0-87483-434-1)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$14.95

Storytellers' Research Guide
Folktales Myths and Legends
by Judy Sierra (ISBN 0-9636089-4-0)
Folkprint
Box 450
Eugene, OR 97440
$14.95

Creative Storytelling
Choosing, Inventing, and Sharing Tales For Children
by Jack Maguire (ISBN: 0-938756-35-4)
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 1316
Cambridge, MA 02238
$10.95

World Folktale Anthologies for the Storyteller

This collection of world folktale anthologies offers a multitude of multicultural stories which were orally transmitted long ago. Student storytellers can use the anthologies to locate plots they would like to retell with their own descriptive language, dialogue, and detail. Each of the many folktales in these collections is an opportunity to further investigate the culture from which the story comes. Further folktales and folktale collections can be found in the 398.2 section of the public library.

Best-Loved Folktales Of The World
Selected by Joanna Cole (ISBN 0-385-18949-4)
Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
666 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10103
$11.95

Favorite Folktales From Around The World
edited by Jane Yolen (ISBN 0-394-75188-4)
Pantheon Books
201 E. 50th St.
New York, NY 10022
$14.95

Ready-To-Tell Tales
Sure-fire Stories from America's Favorite Storytellers
Edited by David Holt and Bill Mooney (ISBN 0-87483-381-7)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$19.95

Joining In
An Anthology of Audience Participation Stories and How to Tell Them
Compiled by Teresa Miller, Edited by Norma Livo (ISBN 0-938756-21-4)
Yellow Moon Press
PO Box 1316
Cambridge, MA 02238
$11.95

Thirty Three Multicultural Tales To Tell
by Pleasant DeSpain (ISBN 0-87483-266-7)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$15

Wisdom Tales From Around The World
by Heather Forest (ISBN 0-87483-479-1)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$17.95

Wonder Tales From Around The World
by Heather Forest (ISBN 0-87483-422-8)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$16.95

Peace Tales
World Tales to Talk About
by Margaret Read MacDonald (ISBN 0208-02329-1)
The Shoestring Press
2 Linsley St.
North Haven, CT 06473
$15.95

Wise Women
Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
by Suzanne Barchers ISBN 1-56308-592-5
Libraries Unlimited, Inc.
PO Box 6633
Englewood, CO 80155

Apples From Heaven
Multicultural Folktales About Stories and Storytellers
by Naomi Baltuck (ISBN 0208-02434-4)
The Shoestring Press
2 Linsley St.
North Haven, CT 06473
$17.50

Books about Collecting Family Stories

Family stories are tales about people, places, objects, and events related to the members of the immediate family or their ancestors. These stories are important because they contribute to a sense of family heritage, personal identity, and self esteem.

Telling Your Own Stories
For Family and Classroom Storytelling, Public Speaking and Personal Journaling
by Donald Davis (ISBN 0-87483-235-7)
August House
PO Box 3223
Little Rock, AR 72203
$10

Keeping Family Stories Alive
A Creative Guide To Taping Your Family Life and Lore
By Vera Rosenbluth (ISBN 0-88179-149-0)
Hartly & Marks, Inc.
Box 147
Point Roberts, WA 98281
$19.95

Storytelling Books and Tapes