Life, legends, history and fairytales come alive through the magic of storytelling.

April 12-20, 2008

A Guide to Storytelling Resources

Finding Storytelling Resources in the Library Catalog

Keyword Searches

• Folklore videorecording
• Tales folklore sound recording
• Storytelling videorecording
• Storytelling sound recording

Subject Searches

• Tales
• Storytelling
• Folklore

Suggested Titles in Washington County Libraries

Search the catalog for these titles:

Telling Family Stories

• Donald Davis - Telling Your Own Stories
• Lisa Lipkin - Bringing the Story Home: The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents
• Robin Moore - Awakening the Hidden Storyteller: How to Build a Storytelling Tradition in Your Family
• Anne Pellowski - The Family Storytelling Handbook

Storytelling in the Classroom

• Cathie Hilterbran Cooper - The Storyteller's Cornucopia
• Martha Hamilton - Children Tell Stories: A Teaching Guide
• Anne Pelowski - The Storytelling Handbook: A Young People's COllection of Unusual Tales and Helpful Hints on How to Tell Them
• Judy Sierra - Twice Upon a Time

Art & Craft Storytelling

• Augusta Baker - Storytelling: Art and Technique
• Caroline Feller Bauer - handbook for Storytellers
• Joseph Bruchac - Tell Me a Tale: A Book About Storytelling
• Doug Lipman - Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play
• Margaret Read MacDonald - The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales Including Twelve Tellable Tales
• Ruth Sawyer - The Way of the Storyteller
• Nancy Schimmel - Just Enough to Make a Story
• Marie L. Shedlock - The Art of the Story-Teller
• Jacki Torrance - Jackie Tales: The Magic of Creating Stories and the Art of Telling Them

Tales to Tell

• Heather Forest - Wisdom Tales from Around the World
• Martha Hamilton - Stories in My Pocket: Tales Kids Can Tell
• Margaret Read MacDonald - Look Back and See: Twenty Lively Tales for Gentle Tellers
• Anne Pellowski - The Story Vine: A Source Book of Unusual and Easy-to-Tell Stories from Around the World
• Cathy Spagnoli - Asian Tales and Tellers

Videos

• Coaching Storytellers: A Demonstration Workshop
• Folktales of Peace
• Jackie Torrance Presents (video series of stories told by Olga Loya)

CDs

• Anne Rutherford, On the Great Pacific Flyway
• Robert Rubinstein, Strange Tales From Biblical Times
• Dayton Edmonds, Grandmother Turtle & Co.
• Rick Huddle, Hello Muddah: stories and songs for all ages
• Alton Chung, Obake! Lafcadio Hearn’s Strange Tales From Japan
• Heather Forest, Tales Around the Hearth
• Sharon Kennedy, Irish Folktales for Children
• Christopher Leebrick, Critters, Kids & Cowboys: Good Stories Vol. II
• Julius Lester, Tales of Uncle Remus
• Margaret Read MacDonald, Tuck-Me-In Tales
• Bobby Norfolk, Anansi Time with Bobby Norfolk

Web Resources

Some of this year's tellers:

• Robert Rubinstein
• Anne Rutherford
• Olga Loya
• John Dashney
• Dayton Edmonds
• Rick Huddle

Local Storytelling

• Portland Storyteller's Guild http://www.portlandstorytellers.org/
• Portland Story Theater www.portlandstorytheater.com

Teacher Resources

• Teaching Storytelling (National Council of Teachers of English) www.ncte.org/about/over/Positions/category/curr/107637.htm
• By Word of Mouth: a Storytelling Guide for the Classroom (Pacific Resources for Education and Learning) www.prel.org/products/pr_/storytelling.htm
• StoryArts (includes curriculum ideas, articles, lesson plans, and activities) www.storyarts.org

Family Storytelling

• Oral History Questions http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/

Other Guides and Resources

• PBS's Circle of Stories: native American Stories (includes video & lesson plans) www.pbs.org/circleofstories/
• National Storytelling Network www.storynet.org
• Storytelling Resource List (American Library Association) www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/forlibrarians/StorytellingResources.htm
• Storyteller.net www.storyteller.net

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