Pete Seeger's Storytelling Book

by Seeger, Pete

• ISBN13: 9780151003709
• ISBN10: 015100370X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Harcourt

Summary

Pete Seeger brings more than fifty years of performing folksongs to the art of storytelling in this unique collection of tales, ideas, and music. He and Paul Jacobs have put together fresh versions of familiar tales; stories based on songs, family histories, and America's past; as well as entirely new tales created just for this book. Each section describes the origins of the stories and there are suggestions for retelling and personalizing the tales to turn them into family favorites for bedtime or family time. And in keeping with the theme that a story never really ends-in fact gets better and better each time it is told-the book concludes with some beginnings, story openers to get you going on the path to creating your own storytelling tradition. Pete Seeger, a Grammy Award winner as well as the recipient of the N.E.A. National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors, has spent sixty years singing in peace rallies and civil rights marches, at schools and camps, and for unions. His internationally recognized songs include, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "If I Had a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn." He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife of over fifty years, Toshi Seeger.

Author Biography

Pete Seeger, a Grammy Award winner as well as a recipient of the N.E.A. National Medal of Arts and Kennedy Center Honors, has performed all over the world for audiences of all ages--at peace rallies, civil rights marches, union meetings, schools, and camps. He lives in Beacon, New York, with his wife of over fifty years, Toshi Seeger. Paul DuBois Jacobs is a freelance writer and poet

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
Stories From My Father	9	(62)
Introduction	10	(5)
The Trailer and the Flood	15	(8)
The Foolish Frog	23	(11)
Yop Up Peas	34	(8)
Pink Pills for Pale People	42	(7)
The Magic Comb	49	(6)
The Little Train	55	(7)
The Oatmeal Pot	62	(9)
New Versions of Old Stories	71	(44)
Introduction	72	(3)
Noah and the Ark	75	(6)
Jonah and the Whale	81	(8)
Foolish Hans	89	(8)
Stone Soup	97	(6)
The Boy Who Drew Cats	103	(7)
The Two Frogs	110	(5)
Stories From Songs, Rounds, and Lullabies	115	(56)
Introduction	116	(3)
Sam the Whaler	119	(11)
The Falls! The Falls!	130	(7)
Dick Whittington and His Cat	137	(9)
Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase	146	(7)
Abiyoyo	153	(7)
Abiyoyo Returns	160	(11)
Some Stories from America's History	171	(36)
Introduction	172	(3)
King of America?	175	(6)
The Emancipation Proclamation	181	(4)
The Preacher's False Tooth	185	(4)
Takashi Ohta Crosses the Ocean	189	(6)
Some American Struggles	195	(12)
The Down Rent Wars	195	(3)
The Coal Creek Rebellion	198	(2)
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.	200	(7)
A Few of My Own Stories	207	(38)
Introduction	208	(3)
The Little Baseball Man	211	(3)
The Intelligent Lightbulbs	214	(8)
The Deaf Musicians	222	(4)
The Magic Thinner	226	(13)
Head of Cabbage	239	(6)
Story Beginnings	245	(14)
Introduction	246	(1)
Goldilocks	247	(3)
The Spot Bug	250	(2)
The Magic Mower	252	(2)
David and Goliath	254	(3)
Sky-high Scrambled Eggs	257	(2)
The Maple Tree	259