Around the world each night, parents tell stories to children as they put them to bed. Margaret Read MacDonald a folklorist, storyteller, and children's librarian uses bedtime tales in the daytime to end her story hours on a calm note. Here she includes five of her favorites from around the world. Chin Chin Kobokama tells the story of a young Japanese girl who overcomes her fear of the dark and learns there are good reasons to clean up her room. Snow Bunting's Lullaby, a lovely Siberian tale, ....

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

Children's Books

MacDonald, Margaret Read

Literature & Fiction

August House Publishers

If everybody loves a scary story, nobody loves them more--or repeats them more--than children. In the great tradition of campfire tales, the Youngs have gone to the source, the kids themselves, and collected 23 favorites from around the country.

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children: 23 Tales Newly Collected from Children Aged 5 to 10

Young, Richard

Young, Judy Dockrey

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Favorite Scary Stories of American Children

Enjoying the art of Southern hospitality: Menus, recipes, and suggestions for entertaining simply and graciously

Enjoying the Art of Southern Hospitality: Menus, Recipes, and Suggestions for Entertaining Simply and Graciously

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pitzer, Sara

Regional & International

Great American mysteries: Raining snakes, fabled cities of gold, strange disappearances, and other baffling tales

FLOYD, E. Randall

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

Margaret Read MacDonald

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

He was the only son of an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant Navy man. His mother frequently prayed for him to become a priest. But his father warned him, “Son, never get a job where you have to wear a dress to work.” So Ed Stivender compromised. After earning a master's degree in theology, he taught religion in a Catholic high school, where he found his true calling as a jongleur (loosely translated as “wandering minstrel-juggler”), telling stories, sometimes with music and often from the Bible. His many years as both a student and teacher in the parochial school system form the basis for this cycle of stories about growing up Catholic in the 1950s, prior to the reforms of Vatican II. Stivender recalls this indelible experience with affection and precision: leaving room for his guardian angel between himself and his first-grade seatmate; his antic first mass as an altar boy; his first kiss, which made him realize the sacrifices required by his intended vocation, the preisthood; the classroom games of “doctrinal tennis” that often ended with the priest against the wall claiming, ‘It's a mystery of faith,’ when the doctrine wore thin on the abrasive washboard of logic and common sense.” Stivender says he developed these stories for “all the wounded Catholics in the world, as well as for anyone who has ever wondered what it would have been like to be Catholic.”

Raised Catholic (Can You Tell?) (American Storytelling)

Biographies & Memoirs

Stivender, Ed

Community & Culture

H. L. and Lyda, Signed First Edition Book Author Margaret Hunt Hill. A look inside the life, business and family of America's most successful Texas oilman, H.L. Hunt whose oil production President Roosevelt stated was essential to fueling our planes and ships, making it possible for them to win World War II.

H. L. and Lyda

Margaret Hunt Hill

Professionals & Academics

A Place of Care, Love, and Hope: A History of Arkansas Children's Hospital

Steven G. Hanley

Collection of the author's photographs of jazz musicians.

Jazz Party

Arts & Photography

White, Al

edited by Jim Shacter

Music

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