storytelling

Explains how to introduce children to computers and electronic resources, providing forty complete storytime programs incorporating Web sites, CD-ROMs, and videos with songs, fingerplays, and popular picture books.

Offers tips for librarians to consider when purchasing and presenting scary stories for the kindergarten through sixth-grade audience, with lesson plans and activities, an annotated list of resources, and highlights of selected stories.

Contains twenty folktales designed for audience involvement and provides notes on storytelling techniques and devices.

Twenty biographies of modern heroes and heroines with lesson plans aimed at grades three to seven.

Every October for the past 20 years, storytellers from all over the world have gathered in Jonesborough, Tennessee to share tales from the past, tell stories of the present, and evoke wonderful memories with words as they weave their magic into the imagination of the listeners. In that spirit the historic town of Jonesborough has become the heart and soul of a growing American movement called "Storytelling". This is a full length stories video that taped at the 20th anniversary of the National Storytelling Festival.

Master storytellers Olga Loya, Alice McGill, Jon Spelman, and Joe Bruchac share their tallest tales.

Jonas wants to keep the memory of his beloved Gullah grandfather alive by representing his family at the traditional storytelling contest, even though he feels like a nervous child trying to do a man's job.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

Offers advice for teachers, librarians, and other educators on how to create a Guest Readers Program for upper elementary and middle school levels; featuring specific program plans, each with a suggestion for a read-aloud book, ideas for discussion topics and demonstrations, a list of related books, and activities.