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The storyteller's start-up book : finding, learning, performing, and using folktales / Margaret Read MacDonald.

MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940- (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0874833051
ISBN: 9780874833058
ISBN: 0874833043
ISBN: 9780874833041
Physical Description: 215 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : August House Publishers, Inc., 1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

An invitation to storytell -- Your place in tradition -- Learning the story in one hour -- Performing the story -- Thinking of story as an event -- Playing with story -- Teaching with story -- Teaching others to tell -- Telling it everywhere -- Finding the story -- Looking at stories critically -- Defending the story -- Accepting the role of storyteller -- Networking with other tellers -- Why tell? Examining the values of storytelling -- Belonging to the story -- Stories audiences have loved -- Turtle of Koka (Ki-Mbundu/Angola) -- Little old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle (Wales) -- Puchika churika (Selkup/Siberia) -- Marsh hawk (Athabaskan) -- Gecko (Lango/Acoli) -- Kudu break! (Basotho) -- What are their names! (Ki-Mbundu/Angola) -- Aayoga with many excuses (Nanai/Siberia) -- Kanu above and kanu below (Limba) -- Ko Kóngole (Nkundo/Zaire) -- Ningun (Nigeria) -- Yonjwa seeks a bride (Nkundo/Zaire) -- Works cited -- Index.