Recommended Books
THE ART OF STORYTELLING BOOKS
And None of It Was Nonsense: The Power of Storytelling in School, Betty Rosen
*Children Tell Stories: A Teaching Guide, Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss (contains extensive bibliographies & includes 25 stories to tell)
Creative Storytelling: Choosing, Inventing, and Sharing Tales for Children, Jack Maguire
Curtains Up! Theatre Games & Storytelling, Robert Rubinstein
Fairy Tales, Fables, Legends, and Myths: Using Folk Literature in Your Classroom, Bette Bosma
Flannelboards, Kathleen Cubley, Totline Publications
Improvisation for the Theater, Viola Spolin Viola is the originator of theater games; a handbook of teaching & directing techniques. A must-read for educators & theatre performance majors.
Just Enough to Make a Story: A Sourcebook for Storytelling, Nancy Schimmel
Literature and the Child, Lee Galda & Bernice E. Cullinan
Storytelling in Emergent Literacy: Fostering Multiple Intelligences, Susan Trostle Brand & Jeanne M. Donato
Storytelling Activities, Norma Livo & Sandra Rietz
Student Story Fest: How to Organize a Storytelling Festival, Barbara Budge Griffin
Tell Me Another: Storytelling and Reading Aloud at Home, at School and in the Community, Bob Barton
The Read-aloud Handbook, Jim Trelease
The Storytelling Coach: How to Listen, Praise, & Bring Out People's Best, Doug Lipman
The Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children, Margaret Read MacDonald
The Way of the Storyteller, Ruth Sawyer
What to do After You Turn Off the TV, Frances Moore Lappi, (includes games)
*Highly recommended
FOLKLORE
All Around the Year, Jack Santino, University of Illinois Press, 1994
Children's Folklore: A Source Book, Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, & Felicia R. McMahon
LITERACY BOOKS
Early Literacy Instruction: Teaching Reading and Writing in Today's Primary Grades, John A. Smith and Sylvia Read
Storytelling Magazine, National Storytelling Network, (bi-monthly)
Aesop's Fables
African Myths & Legends, O. B. Duane
Brother Grimm's Fairy Tales
Eleven Nature Tales: A Multicultural Journey, Pleasant DeSpain
Fables For Our Times, James Thurber
Fair is Fair: World Folktales of Justice, Sharon Creeden
Grandfather Tales, Richard Chase
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories & Environmental Activities for Children, Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
The Long-tailed Bear & Other Indian Legends, Natalia Beltings
Rootabaga Stories, Carl Sandburg
Science & Why Stories, Shirley Climo
Tales of Thunder & Lighting, Harry Devlin
The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
The Children's Book of Heroes, William J. Bennett
The Children's Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
The Everything Mother Goose Book, June Rifkin
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury, Janet Schulman
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
Nature Tales, Roger Caras
One Hundred and One Read-Aloud Stories, Susan Kantor, Series include African-American, Asian, Celtic, Jewish, Latino & other tales
Shel Silverstein Books
Sherlock Holmes Books, A. Conan Doyle
Tales from Heaven: About God and the World, Folke Tegetthoff, (written both in English & German)
Tales of Wisdom, Howard Schwartz
Talkies: Ghost Stories of Hawaii, Roland Roy
Thirty-Three Multicultural Tales to Tell, Pleasant DeSpain
Uncle Remus Stories
Wisdom Tales from Around the World, Heather Forest
Wonder Tales from Around the World, Heather Forest
You can also easily access thousands of stories online through a Google search.
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