Books you may find
useful
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with suggestions.
Thanks
About
folktales:
Bettleheim,
Bruno, The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. Knopf, 1977. This
is the classic on using unaltered fairy tales with children.
MacDonald,
Margaret Read, The
Storyteller's Sourcebook. Gale, 1982.
Ireland,
Index to Fairytales. (several volumes covering different years through
2001.)
Use
these to find a folktale about almost any subject. MacDonald also contains
geographical and ethnic indexes.
Storytelling:
Baker,
Augusta and Ellin Greene, Storytelling Art and Technique. Bowker, 1987.
Bauer,
Carolyn F., Handbook for
Storytellers. ALA, 1977.
Champlin,
Connie and Renfro, Nancy, Storytelling
With Puppets. ALA, 1985.
Mallet,
Jerry J., Stories to Draw.
Freline, 1982.
MacDonald,
Margaret Read, Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience participation stories for
the beginning storyteller. Wilson, 1987.
MacDonald,
Margaret Read, When the Lights Go Out: 20 Scary tales to tell.
Wilson, 1988.
Olson,
Margaret J., Tell and Draw
Stories. Freline, 1963.
Schimmel,
Nancy, Just Enough to Make a
Story. Sister's Choice Press, 1988.
Sierra,
Judy, The Flannel Board Storytelling Book. Wilson, 1987.
Sierra,
Judy and Robert Kaminski, Twice Upon a Time: Stories to tell, retell, act
out, and write about. Wilson, 1989.
Tashjian,
Virginia, Juba This and Juba
That. Little Brown, 1969.
Some magazines for
children:
Cobblestone.
History for ages 10 up. Often contains retellable stories.
Each issue concentrates on one subject.
Cricket.
Good literature for 7‑11 year olds. Usually contains retellable
stories. Also see Spider
and Ladybug for younger children, other stories.
Good places to find holiday stories.
Stone
Soup.
Publishes writing and art by children up to 12.
Your students can submit their writing to this.
Other Books:
Brooke,
William J., A Telling of the
Tales: Five Stories. Harper
and Row, 1990. (Interesting twists to several favorite tales.)
Egan,
Kieran, Teaching as Storytelling: An Alternative Approach to Teaching and
Curriculum in the Elementary School. Univ. of Chicago, 1989.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird. Harcourt, 1995.
Whipple, Laura. If the Shoe Fits. McElderry, 2002.
Wolkstein,
Diane. The Magic Orange Tree
and Other Haitian Folktales. Knopf,
1978.
