Alliance Theatre Institute for Educators and Teaching Artists
Storytelling
June 28, 2012
Barry Stewart Mann, M.F.A.
barrystewartmann@hotmail.com
barrystewartmann.com
Additional Resources: Bibliography and Webography
Books:
How To Tell Stories
Birch, Carol and Melissa A. Heckler (1996). Who Says?: Essays on Pivotal Issues in
Contemporary Storytelling. Little Rock, AR: August House Publishers.
Brenneman, Lucille N. and Bren Brenneman (1983). Once Upon a Time: A Storytelling
Handbook. Chicago: Nelson Hall.
Cassady, Marsh (1990). Storytelling Step by Step. San Jose, CA; Resource Publications,
Inc.
Davis, Donald (1993). Telling Your Own Stories: For Family and Classroom
Storytelling, Public Speaking, and Personal Journaling. Little Rock: August House.
Fujita, Hiroko [adapted & edited by Fran Stallings; translations by Mitsuko Harada and
Satomi Obata] (1999). Stories to Play With: Kids' Tales Told with Puppets, Paper, Toys,
and Imagination. Little Rock, Ark.: August House.
Haven, Kendall & Mary Gay Ducey (2007). Crash Course in Storytelling. Westport,
CN: Libraries Unlimited.
Haven, K. (2000). Super simple storytelling: A can-do guide for every classroom, every
day. Greenwood Village, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.
Hamilton, Martha and Mitch Weiss (2001). Through the Grapevine: World Tales Kids
Can Read & Tell. Little Rock: August House.
Lipman, Doug (1999). Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell
Stories in Work or Play. Little Rock: August House.
Livo, Norma J. and Sandra Rietz (1986). Storytelling: Process & Practice. Littleton,
Colo.: Libraries Unlimited.
MacDonald, Margaret Read (1993). The Storyteller’s Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning,
Performing, and Using Folktales. Little Rock: August House.
Maguire, Jack (1985). Creative Storytelling: Choosing, Inventing, and Sharing Tales for
Children. Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon Press.
Painter, William M (1994). Storytelling with Music, Puppets, and Arts for Libraries and
Classrooms. North Haven, Conn.: Library Professional Publications.
Pellowski, Anne (1995). The Storytelling Handbook. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Ross, Ramon Royal (1996). Storyteller: The Classic that Heralded America’s
Storytelling Revival (revised ed.). Little Rock: August House.
Trelease, Jim (2006). The Read-Aloud Handbook. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Teaching Storytelling, and Teaching through Storytelling
Bruchac, Joseph (1997). Tell Me a Tale: A Book About Storytelling. San Diego, Calif.:
Harcourt Brace.
Davis, Donald (2000). Writing as a Second Language: From Experience to Story to
Prose. Little Rock: August House.
de Vos, Gail (1991). Storytelling for Young Adults. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries
Unlimited.
Ellis, Brian “Fox” (2009). Content Area Reading, Writing, and Storytelling: A
Dynamic Tool for Improving Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum through Oral
Language Development. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2009.
Hamilton, M. and Weiss, M. (2005). Children tell stories: Teaching and using
storytelling in the classroom. Katonah, NY: Richard C. Owen. (2nd Ed. Comes includes a
DVD).
Hamilton, Martha and Mitch Weiss (2001). Through the Grapevine: World Tales Kids
Can Read & Tell. Little Rock: August House.
Livo, Norma J. and Sandra Rietz (1987). Storytelling Activities. Littleton, Colo.:
Libraries Unlimited.
The National Storytelling Association & Dailey, S. (1994). Tales as tools: the power of
story in the classroom. TN: The National Storytelling Press.
Norfolk, S., Stenson, J., and Williams, D. (2009). Literacy development in the storytelling
classroom. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Norfolk, S., Stenson, J., and Williams, D. (2006). The storytelling classroom:
Applications across the curriculum. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Story Collections
Cole, J., (Selector). (1982). Best-loved folktales of the world. New York: Doubleday.
DeSpain, Pleasant (1996). Eleven Nature Tales: A Multicultural Journey. Little Rock:
August House Publishers.
DeSpain, Pleasant (1993). Thirty-Three Multicultural Tales to Tell. Little Rock: August
House.
Forest, Heather (1996). Wisdom Tales from Around the World. Little Rock: August
House.
Haven, Kendall (2001). That’s Weird!: Awesome Science Mysteries. Golden, CO:
Fulcrum Publishing.
Holt, David and Boll Mooney (2000). More Ready-to-Tell Tales from Around the World.
Little Rock: August House.
Holt, David and Boll Mooney (1994). Ready-to-Tell Tales. Little Rock: August House.
MacDonald, Margaret Read (1992). Peace tales: World folktales to talk about. Hamden,
CT: Linnet Books.
MacDonald, Margaret Read (2000). Shake-It-Up-Tales: Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum
and Act Out. Little Rock: August House.
McDonald, Margaret Reed (2004). Three Minute Tales: Stories From Around the World
to Tell or Read When Time is Short. Little Rock: August House.
MacDonald, Margaret Read (1996). Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation
Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller. Bronx, NY: H. W. Wilson.
Miller, Teresa (Compiler) (1988). Joining In: An Anthology of Audience Participation
Stories and How to Tell Them. Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon.
National Storytelling Association [project director and editor, Mary C. Weaver] (1995).
Many Voices: True Tales from America's Past. Jonesborough, Tenn.: National
Storytelling Press.
Norfolk, B. & Norfolk, S. (2006). The moral of the story: Folktales for character
development. Little Rock, AR: August House.
Olson, Denny (1995). Shared Spirits: Native Americans and Wildlife.
NorthWord Press: Chanhassen, MN, 1995.
Pellowski, Anne (1984). The Story Vine: A Source Book of Unusual and
Easy-to-tell Stories from Around the World. New York, NY: Macmillan,.
Sherman, Josepha (2003). Mythology for Storytellers: Themes and Tales from Around
the World. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference.
Strauss, K. (2006). Tales with tails: Storytelling the wonders of the natural world.
Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Yolen, Jane (Ed.) (1986). Favorite Folktales from Around the World. New York, NY:
Pantheon Books.
Authors to search further
Joseph Bruchac
Pleasant DeSpain
Heather Forest
Martha Hamilton & Mitch Weiss
Margaret Read MacDonald
Anne Pellowski
Jane Yolen
August House Publishing
Libraries Unlimited
Online Resources:
Websites with Stories and Storytelling Information
http://www.americanfolklore.net - site with many genres of stories.
http://www.courses.unt.edu/efiga/STORYTELLING/StorytellingWebsites.htm - list of
storyelling websites
http://www.cuentacuentos.eu/ -- International Storytelling Network/Red Internacional de
Cuentacuentos
http://www.greekmythology.com - site with info and stories form Greek Mythology
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/ -- site with info by and about members of the
larger storytelling community
http://southernorderofstorytellers.org/ -- site of the Southern Order of Storytellers, a
group based in Atlanta and serving the Southeast.
http://www.spellbinders.org - Colorado-based site for using story to connect generations,
with resources, stories, etc.
http://www.storiestogrowby.com - fairy tales, folklore, and scripts
http://www.storyarts.org - educational site with stories, lesson plans, articles, etc.
http://www.storynet.org - site of National Storytelling Network
http://www.storytellingfoundation.net - site of the National Storytelling Center in
Jonesborough, TN
http://www.story-lovers.com - site run by storyteller Jackie Baldwin, with exhaustive
topic-by-topic inventories of folklore and picture books.
Podcasts
Podcast Directories – Podcastalley.com, odeo.com, podbean.com, epnweb.org
(Educational Podcast Network) – to search for appropriate podcasts
www.storynory.com - folktales and other stories read articulately by a variety of readers
http://www.sydlieberman.com/podcast/?feed=podcast - Stories from teller Syd
Lieberman
http://feeds.feedburner.com/storycast - Storycast - scary and literary stories
http://rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/155/all/feed -- Comeuppance, a site from Canada with
various stories
http://secondhandstorytime.com/?feed=podcast - Real-life narratives
http://activated.libsyn.com/rss - from Activated Storytellers, a traveling family story
performance group
http://www.alphadvd.com/CFT.xml - 30 classic fairy tales
http://internationaltales.com/internationalTales/uncontrolled/podcast/internationaltalesPo
dcastAlley.xml - Folk tales and stories in various languages
http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com -- Audio interviews with storytellers. One hour
each.
Videos of Storytellers Telling Stories
Joel Kennedy Atukho – Kenyan teller telling to children in US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z30Jym3VM_E&NR=1
Mayerlis Beltran – “El arcoiris” (in Spanish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlPtTSGS-dI
Daniel Bishop -- a “jump” tale (scary story)
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/video/1984817:Video:34236
Odds Bodkin –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j378Ips30WQ&feature=related
Dianne de las Casas –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_ttJjZU24&feature=related
(many by Dianne available)
Carmen Deedy – “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (about Mama) (TED talk)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKabYHpXlDw
Martha Escudero – a coyote story, told in Spanish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6M3KCP3RY
Eth-Noh-Tec (Nancy Wang and Robert Kiguchi) -- a Tibetan tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQOvvAHgNY
Eth-Noh-Tec (Nancy Wang and Robert Kiguchi) -- a Chinese tale of the Eight Immortals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQBUBRoXjFE
Diane Ferlatte – several clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCzWu7jRvck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8gUg-OmhY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKcNrgaGakM&NR=1
Jeff Gere -- “Pokai Bay: A Hawaiian Forgiveness Story”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2mKfnwbb6Q
Joe Hayes—(in Spanish) “Una Cuchara para Cada Bocado”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBrFnwN_q7g
Joe Hayes –“ The Gum Chewing Rattler”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-LmJlC5kWI&feature=related
Rich Heape – Native American Tales
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlHtzU133NI&feature=related
Rachel Hedman - Why Dogs Chase Cats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejp8wn_rnlA&feature=related
Rick Huddle – Paperbag Princess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XOmBe4Lr8&feature=related
Michael Katz
http://www.youtube.com/group/oralstorytelling (click on name)
Sanyutei Kintaro – traditional Japanese Rakugo storytelling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfK05T1duQo
Leslie Slape -- “Mr. Wiggle and Mr. Waggle” (a finger play story)
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/video/1984817:Video:40052
Michael McCarty -- Anansi tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olELQTvHUS8&feature=related
Margaret Read MacDonald -- telling with Wajuppa Tossa (tandem bi-lingual
Telling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzbK9Bu8LIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrKG-fw_50k&feature=related&pos=0
Masai girl -- storytelling at camp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kwD4PvOGQY&feature=PlayList&p=D3769153C9
0EF7F8&index=82
Clare Muireann Murphy – Celtic Tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-h4r1rzH44&feature=related
(others in Celtic series available)
Bobby Norfolk -- Promo packet (several styles from one teller)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGK8AIi8v58&feature=related&pos=4
David Novak – String Figure Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQkJpTVIyeA
Jay O'Callahan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FScYB1dDJg
Antonio Sacre
http://www.youtube.com/group/oralstorytelling (click on name)
Pete Seeger -- Abiyoyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHR9uJLS3XA
Spencer Shaw
http://storyroute.com/2010/06/21/remembering-spencer-shaw/
Sondra Singer -- a Nigerian story with music
http://www.sondrasinger.com/media_kit.html - video
Brian Sturm – about the art of storytelling, including story of Truth and Beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFC-URW6wkU&feature=fvw
Gene Tagaban – a Raven tale. Gene is Tlingit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXXBY0cDg0o
Alton Takiyama-Chung -- Pearl Harbor and Hawaiian Japanese soldier (historical first
person story)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Am6Ycn6eG8
Aubrey Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWq7Ko3v8s&feature=related
Donna Washington – Uncle Remus Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIN0uhA3Zwo&feature=related
(many by Donna available)
Ugandan storytelling troupe -- singing tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32I4WPRMI2A&feature=PlayList&p=D3769153C90
EF7F8&index=76
Various storytellers, through the The Pratt Library
http://www.prattlibrary.org/home/storyIndex.aspx
Kathleen Zundell -- Frog Prince retelling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTgh8e_uafE&feature=related
Kathleen Zundell -- Old Mother Oak (original story)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suWzXzAdNDI&feature=related
Videos about Storytelling, and about teaching Storytelling
Sean Buvala -- about using gesture in storytelling
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/video/how-to-use-gestures-in
Ira Glass (NPR) -- How to shape a good anecdote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KQ4vkiNUk
Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss - Teaching children to tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrZc6eztoH4
Gene Tagaban -- about storytelling and his performance with Seattle Children’s
Theatre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr0C3mSpspo&feature=related
Gene Tagaban -- about storytelling and its importance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VDzYAasWTc&feature=related