The story-teller's start-up book : finding, learning, performing and using folktales : including twelve tellable tales /
By: MacDonald, Margaret Read.
Publisher: Little Rock, Ark. : August House Publishers, 1993Description: 215 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0874833043; 9780874833041 :; 9780874833041; 0874833051 (pbk.); 9780874833058 (pbk.).Subject(s): Storytelling
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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) -- The 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.
Instruction on how to tell stories. Includes 12 tales from other countries.