storytelling

Mary Louise gradually gets to know and love her elderly neighbor lady who tells wonderful stories as she walks around the block of her Virginia home.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel.

Provides an introduction to participation stories for teachers, librarians, and other storytellers, discusses types of audience participation, describes audience management skills, features twenty-five adapted stories from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Norway, Spain, and West Africa appropriate for children from kindergarten through sixth grade, each with a list of tell-along techniques, and includes warm-up and settle-down activities.

Contains twenty-five spooky, supernatural stories suitable for storytelling activities for first through fifth grade students, and includes stage notes and suggestions on how to present each tale.

In 1869, seventeen-year-old Maisie Thomas comes to her family's old Maine hotel for their annual summer stay, and, as Maisie tries to learn what she wants from life--love or something else--the secrets of the house, her family, and the strange, storytelling Miss Grange begin to reveal themselves, as corpses and ghosts appear on the grounds.

On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection.

Concerned about their daughter's imagination, Molly Doogan's parents have stopped the family storytelling about the magical kingdom of Rairarubia, but Molly continues to travel to the story kingdom as she writes about it.

To harm the magical real of Rairarubia, evil Zenu creates clones of Queen Romey and her consort, Sam, to replace the rightful rulers. To save Rairarubia, Molly and Netty must rewrite the realm's history in just one night.

A collection of stories that includes age level and audience recommendations, performance tips, background information on the stories, an index of cultural sources, and thematic section groupings for easy reference.