TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacDonald,Margaret Read
TI  - The Storyteller's Start-up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales including Twelve Tellable Tales 
SN  - 0874833043 :
AV  - LB1042 .M23 1993
U1  - 372.64/2 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Little Rock, Ark.
PB  - August House
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Storytellers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Folklore
N1  - 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, a 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; Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index; An invitation to storytell --
Your place in tradition --
Learning the story in one hour --
Performing the story --
Thinking of story as an event --
Playing with story --
Teaching with story --
Teaching others to tell --
Telling it everywhere --
Finding the story --
Looking at stories critically --
Defending the story --
Accepting the role of storyteller --
Networking with other tellers --
Why tell? Examining the values of storytelling --
Belonging to the story --
Stories audiences have loved --
Turtle of Koka (Ki-Mbundu/Angola) --
The little old woman who lived in a vinegar bottle (Wales) --
Puchika churika (Selkup/Siberia) --
Marsh hawk (Athabaska) --
Gecko (Lango/Acoli) --
Kudu break! (Basotho) --
What are their names! (Ki-Mbundu/Angola) --
Aayoga with many excuses (Nanai/Siberia) --
Kanu above and kanu below (Limba) --
Ko Kóngole (Nkundo/Zaire) --
Ningun (Nigeria) --
Yonjwa seeks a bride (Nkundo/Zaire) --
Works cited --
Index
ER  -