The Storyteller's Start-up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales Including Twelve Tellable Tales - Hardcover

Macdonald, Margaret Read

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874833043 ISBN 13: 9780874833041

Publisher: August House Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

For those who want to begin storytelling but don't know where to start, The Storyteller's Start-Up Book offers everything one could ask for. MacDonald presents twelve fool-proof tales that will work for the first-time storyteller arranged in ethnopoetic style. These multicultural tales will delight any audience.

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About the Author

Margaret Read MacDonald Bio:

Margaret Read MacDonald is a professional storyteller, award winning author and highly respected consultant who travels the world telling stories and conducting workshops for educators. Her most popular workshop "Playing with Stories" has been offered in over 70 countries. She has been invited to storytelling and literary festivals in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and Singapore. In addition, Dr. MacDonald teaches storytelling to classroom teachers for the Lesley University Creative Education through the Arts program. For years, she also taught storytelling as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Washington Information School.Dr. MacDonald is the author of over 60 books on folklore and storytelling topics, including many award winning folktale picture books. She has been telling stories since 1964 in her work as a children's librarian, and she holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University along with an M.Ed.EC. (Educational Communications Masters) from the University of Hawaii and a Master's of Library Science (MLS) from the University of Washington. She is well known for her ability to create texts that delight the ear and are easy for teachers to share. Teaching with Story contains 20 of these useful stories that can be used by teachers with their students.

Edition details

• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0874833043
• ISBN 13: 9780874833041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 215