storytelling

After Kenyon squanders the money he has saved for his grandmother's birthday present, he searches for another special gift.

While listening to her uncle as he tells a story about grebes, nine-year-old Cora Lee realizes that he is revealing something about himself through the characters he creates.

Contains six ready-to-use storytimes using fingerplays, scripts, patterns, and music to interest young students in reading.

Shares over two thousand ideas for making five hundred pictures books interactive, showing how elements from the story are turned into activities for children, and includes instructions for creating songs, games, rhymes, plays, and other activities to complement any book.

Presents storytime programs for children ages two through six, with information on preparing children for the program, theme-related annotated book lists, activities, and a craft.

In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.

An English teacher named Pete Ferry sees a car crash into a post, killing Lisa Kim, a young woman; traumatized by the event, Pete investigates the occurrence and starts to slip up in his personal and professional life while narrating the story to his class as the line between storytelling and fact blurs.

Presents an annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales, " a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Includes the general prologue, sources and analogues, and critical essays.