THE STORY BAG
A WORLD OF EXPERIENCES IN STORYTELLING
AND CREATING BOOKS IN MINORITY LANGUAGES
A lecture by author, storyteller and editor
Anne Pellowski
organised by Inizjamed
Monday, 28th March 2011
OH101, University of Malta, Msida, 6.15pm
info: clare.azzopardi@um.edu.mt
The talk is open to the general public. It will be of particular interest to educators, pre-school
and day care providers, librarians, parents, writers, and those interested in children's books.
Entrance to the lecture is free.
Anne Pellowski, a former librarian at the New York Public Library and
renowned storyteller, teacher, and author, has published such titles as The
Story Vine, World of Children’s Stories, The Family Storytelling Handbook,
and, most recently, Drawing Stories from Around the World.
She has performed and conducted storytelling workshops in over 100
countries. Since 1996, she has been a volunteer with IBBY, the
International Board on Books for Young People, giving workshops in
developing countries, like Bolivia, Cape Verde, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya,
Mongolia, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Zambia, on the creation of books for children.
She is also a founder and director of the Information Center on Children’s Cultures, part of the
United States Committee for UNICEF [United Nations Children’s Fund.]
Anne Pellowski has been called a “world resource,” and received the United States National
Storytelling Network Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Anne Pellowski grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, among many other PolishAmerican families who had settled there after arriving in the 1850's and 1860's.
A Fulbright Scholarship took her to the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany, in
1955-56, where she met Jella Lepman, the founder and the person who began the organization
that eventually became known as the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
After that, Anne served as a children's librarian and storytelling specialist for the New York
Public Library, for almost ten years. Following that she founded and maintained the Information
Center on Children's Cultures for the US Committee for UNICEF.
She is the author or editor of 21 books, and has lectured at universities and libraries in
many countries.