The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales
Book Details
Author(s)
Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher
August House Publishers
ISBN / ASIN
0874833051
ISBN-13
9780874833058
Availability
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Sales Rank
#455,569
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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, a 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.
