The Parent's Guide to Storytelling

by MacDonald, Margaret Read

• ISBN13: 9780874836196
• ISBN10: 0874836190
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: August House Pub Inc

Summary

Children of all ages love hearing stories. Many parents, though, freeze when their children ask them to tell a story rather than read one, or panic when they begin to lose their attention mid-story.

Author Biography

Margaret Read MacDonald holds a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University and teaches courses in storytelling for adults and children in the Seattle area. A former board director of the National Storytelling Association, she works as a children's librarian with the King County Library System

Table of Contents

Why Tell Stories?	1	(6)
How to Tell Stories	7	(6)
For the Youngest Listeners	13	(20)
Favorite Nursery Tales	15	(9)
The Three Bears	15	(3)
The Little Red Hen	18	(2)
The Gingerbread Man	20	(4)
Fingerplay Stories	24	(9)
The Beehive	24	(1)
Foxie's Hole	24	(1)
The Parrot with the Key to Rome	25	(1)
The Lost Mitten	26	(7)
Bedtime Stories, Expandable Tales, and Endless Tales	33	(18)
Bedtime Stories	35	(7)
The Squeaky Door	35	(7)
Expandable Stories	42	(6)
Ms. Mouse Needs a Friend	42	(6)
Endless Tales: The Storyteller's Exit	48	(3)
A Dark and Stormy Night	48	(1)
A Silly Question	49	(1)
The Bird Catcher	49	(2)
Easy-to-Tell Folktales	51	(24)
Participation Folktales	53	(9)
Cheese and Crackers	53	(9)
Folktales with Many Variants	62	(5)
Strongest one of All	62	(5)
Story stretches	67	(4)
Let's go on a Bear Hunt!	67	(4)
Drawing Stories	71	(4)
The Stork	71	(4)
Scary Stories	75	(6)
Telling Terrifying Tales	77	(4)
The Dark, Dark House	78	(1)
The Coffin	79	(2)
Jakes as Stories	81	(6)
Humor as a Starting Point	83	(4)
The Big-Mouth Frog	83	(4)
Family Stories	87	(10)
Tales from Your Own Childhood	89	(1)
Stories About Your Family	90	(3)
Grandpa and the Blacksnake	90	(3)
Folklore from Your Family	93	(4)
The Rat in the Cream Jar	94	(3)
Stories You Create	97	(8)
Stories About Your Child	99	(2)
Tales from Your Own Imagination	101	(2)
Tales from Your Child's Imagination	103	(2)
More Tales and Tellers	105	(2)
Books to Take You Further	107	(4)
Tale Notes and Sources	111	(4)
Index	115