The Parent's Guide to Storytelling: How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites

Reference

Margaret Read MacDonald

Catalogs & Directories

Harpercollins

Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About

A collection of folktales from cultures around the world, reflecting different aspects of war and peace.

Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk about

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Linnet Books

The Animals and Birds are getting ready for the big game. Bat wants to WIN WIN WIN--which team will he play on? The Animals look strong and fast, so Bat picks that side. A bat has fur and teeth, after all. But when the Animals fall behind, Bat switches to the Bird team--doesn't a bat have wings? Maybe the Birds will win! Silly Bat learns a lesson about team spirit in this lively story by renowned storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald.

Bat's Big Game

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

scholastic

Elephants and bees cooperate to survive a forest fire, but the bees overstay their welcome. Also a folk tale of how elephants' noses got so long.

Leave, Bees! by Margaret Read MacDonald (2007-05-03)

Hampton-Brown

This edition of Storyteller's Sourcebook complements the original edition published in 1982. The first edition provides descriptions of folktales and references to more than 700 published sources of folktales. This new edition covers folktales from 1983-1999. Both editions include thorough indexing by subject, motif, title, ethnic group and country of origin and a comprehensive bibliography.

Storyteller's Sourcebook: 1983-1999

Literature & Fiction

Brian W. Sturm

History & Criticism

Gale

Presents a collection of folktales for adults to tell elementary-age children, with special techniques for encouraging audience participation

Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller

H.W. Wilson Co

"If you love a story and love sharing it with your audience, the gift of story you give is of great value." ―Margaret Read MacDonald
MacDonald's classic storytelling how-to primer returns, filled with updated resources, classic stories from around the globe, guidelines to tell them with gusto, as well as advice on finding, learning, and telling new tales. Twenty stories, complete with suggestions for chants, songs, dialects, repeating lines, and audience participation, make these multicultural tales easy to learn and tell while satisfying young audiences.
A master of communicating in the story format, MacDonald engages readers just as she does her young audience members in story circles worldwide. She shares a goldmine of practical advice so that both veteran and inexperienced storytellers can:
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<li>Find your unique voice to make the stories your own</li>
<li>Build up a sure-fire story repertoire quickly, and expand it easily using McDonald's recommended resources</li>
<li>Identify traditional story variants to wow audiences</li>
<li>Prepare and rehearse for success using techniques honed over 40+ years</li>
<li>Find the best tales for your style and audience</li>
</ul>
A new generation of school and children's librarians, storytellers, and folklorists can get ready to be inspired! Use this classic handbook to create maximum impact around the story circle―for tellers and listeners alike.

ALA Editions

Finding, learning, performing, and using folktales.
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, an award-winning 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. 
In chapters on learning and performing folktales, MacDonald offers the reader suggestions for finding his or her own performance style. Most importantly, MacDonald presents twelve fool-proof tales that will work for the first-time storyteller. Arranged in ethnopoetic style to relay a sense of rhythm, the stories encourage audience participation and feature enough repetition to make them easy to remember. 
These multicultural tales selected from the folklore of Angola, Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, Siberia, Wales, and Zaire will delight any audience. Includes excellent bibliographies to help the new teller continue to explore the world of storytelling.

The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales

August House Publishers

Oh what a pity, what a pity pity pity! With this refrain, the old woman in the vinegar bottle complains until she gets a cottage ... then a row house ... then a mansion ... How far will she move up before she's satisfied? Storyteller and children's librarian Margaret Read MacDonald pairs a whiny old woman with a no-nonsense fairy in a comical tale of ever-expanding greed and its natural result. Nancy Dunaway Fowlkes's expansive India ink and watercolor illustrations capture MacDonald's high-spirited rendering of this old British fairy tale.

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle

August House

Around the world each night, parents tell stories to children as they put them to bed. Margaret Read MacDonald a folklorist, storyteller, and former children's librarian uses bedtime tales in the daytime to end her story hours on a calm note. Here, with accompaniment on dulcimer and autoharp by musician Richard Scholtz, she includes seven of her favorites from around the world. Each side opens with a lively piece and ends on a sleepy note.

Tuck-Me-In Tales: Bedtime Stories from Around the World

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Books by Margaret Read MacDonald

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The Parent's Guide to Storytelling: How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites

Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk about

Bat's Big Game

Leave, Bees! by Margaret Read MacDonald (2007-05-03)

Storyteller's Sourcebook: 1983-1999

Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller

Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller

The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing and Using Folktales

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle

Tuck-Me-In Tales: Bedtime Stories from Around the World