Storyteller's Start-Up Book by MacDonald, Margaret Read

Storyteller's Start-Up Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874833041)

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Storyteller's Start-Up Book by MacDonald, Margaret Read

Storyteller's Start-Up Book

$26.95
Storyteller's Start-Up Book by MacDonald, Margaret Read

Storyteller's Start-Up Book

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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Finding, learning, performing, and using folktales.


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. Margaret Read MacDonald, an award-winning folklorist and children's librarian who is also a touring storyteller, offers basic start-up information on finding stories, looking at them critically, starting a "story bank," networking with other storytellers, and creating a storytelling event.

In chapters on learning and performing folktales, MacDonald offers the reader suggestions for finding his or her own performance style. Most importantly, MacDonald presents twelve fool-proof tales that will work for the first-time storyteller. Arranged in ethnopoetic style to relay a sense of rhythm, the stories encourage audience participation and feature enough repetition to make them easy to remember.

These multicultural tales selected from the folklore of Angola, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Siberia, Wales, and Zaire will delight any audience. Includes excellent bibliographies to help the new teller continue to explore the world of storytelling.



Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
ISBN-10: 0874833043
ISBN-13: 9780874833041
Publisher: August House Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2005
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.32w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/1993 pg. 1928
Library Journal 07/01/1993
By Margaret Read MacDonald
By Margaret Read MacDonald
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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.

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