In an innovative treasury of tales, music, and ideas, the renowned folksinger offers a complete guide to the art of storytelling, with new versions of familiar folktales, original stories, and tales based on songs, family histories, and the past, along with suggestions for retelling and personalizing the stories and tips on creating one's own storytelling tradition. 35,000 first printing.
Pete Seeger, a Grammy Award winner as well as the recipient of the N.E.A. National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors, has spent sixty years singing in peace rallies and civil rights marches, at schools and camps, and for unions. His internationally recognized songs include, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn." He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife of over fifty years, Toshi Seeger.
Paul DuBois Jacobs is a freelance writer and poet and is currently the Robert Francis Trust Poet-in-Residence. He earned an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia. Paul's grandfather co-wrote a number of songs with Pete Seeger which led to Paul collaborating with Pete on Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book.