The Handbook for Storytellers - Softcover

Freeman, Judy; Feller Bauer, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838911005 ISBN 13: 9780838911006

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Ideal for both beginners and more experienced storytellers, this exhaustive primer includes everything adults need to start sharing the wonder of stories with children, from babies to tweens. The lively text imparts easy-to-follow guidelines and practical advice on how, when, where, and why to tell stories. Each chapter incorporates a wealth of delectable folktales to read and tell, plus the authors hand-selected, annotated lists containing hundreds of classic and cutting edge children s books, professional books, and relevant websites. Demonstrating the joy of stories and storytelling, this book

• Provides an overview of the history and types of storytelling
• Shows how to select, learn, prepare, and tell stories
• Begins with more than two dozen easy-to-learn stories that adults can read today and tell to children tomorrow
• Looks at the major types of folk and fairy tales, including many sample stories and booklists
• Offers a comprehensive list of stories reworked, reimagined, reinvented, parodied, satirized or recreated from folk and fairy tales
• Includes Favorite Stories to Tell, a compendium of more than 500 suggested tales, easily accessible by subject and theme, from which tellers can find the perfect stories to fit every occasion and begin to build their own repertoire of wonderful tales to tell
• Provides tips for publicizing and promoting storytelling programs

This handbook instructs, inspires, and entertains like no other resource of its kind.

About this title

About the Author:

Judy Freeman is a former school librarian; an adjunct professor at Pratt
Institute in New York City teaching courses in children s literature and storytelling; an international speaker and performer for children, teachers,
librarians, and parents; a children s book reviewer; and the author of more
than a dozen professional books about children s literature and storytelling.
She continues to work closely with librarians, teachers, and hundreds of students at several elementary schools to test out new books, ideas, and ways
to incorporate literature into children s lives.
Caroline Feller Bauer (1935 2013) was a public librarian, professor of children s literature, radio personality, international speaker and performer, author of nineteen children s books and professional books about children s
literature for adults, and a tireless cheerleader for literacy and storytelling.
Both have developed and performed thousands of programs and workshops
incorporating children s literature, storytelling, music, poetry, and drama to tens of thousands of children and adults across the United States and abroad.

Review:

"This handy how-to compendium is for seasoned storytellers or beginning tale tellers and is bound to become the most highlighted, tagged, bookmarked, post-it noted, and dog-eared well-loved volume on the book shelf." --Young Adult Books Blog

As a practicing storyteller for many years, The Handbook for Storytellers is the book I wished I had had when I first began telling stories. The authors, Judy Freeman and Caroline Feller Bauer, are experts in this field who provide the guidance and encouragement to practice the art and technique of storytelling at any level ... The book, an important go-to book for both experienced yarn spinners and beginning tellers, will be an important asset in children s literature collections, in public libraries, and in library school curricula." --Catholic Library World

Beginning storytellers will especially relish this title. Any questions will be answered in this extraordinary volume ... Highly recommended." --School Library Connection

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0838911005
• ISBN 13: 9780838911006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416