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Stories from Around the World to Tell Or Read when Time is Short
Offers over eighty short stories from around the globe, including Asia, Mexico, and eastern Europe....
Bedtime Stories from Around the World
Presents five folktales for young children, including "Snow Bunting's Lullaby" from Siberia, "Chin Chin Kobokama" from Japan, "The Playground of the S...
Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales Including Twelve Tellable Tales
Instruction on how to tell stories. Includes 12 tales from other countries....
More Stories to Read and Tell When Time Is Short
A companion to Three Minute Tales compiles another delightful collection of entertaining stories from around the world to read or tell on any occasion...
How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites
A quick and easy guide to storytelling for parents and grandparents. Includes nineteen easy-to-tell stories and lists of story sources to help find mo...
Storytelling Across Language Barriers
Working with or without a native speaker, a storyteller can touch the minds and hearts of all listeners—even those with little or no English languag...
Rounds Kids Love to Sing
This handy paperback presents 80 songs designed to be sung as rounds. Each one appears on an uncluttered page or two, illustrated by a simple ink draw...
Twenty Tellable Folktales for Multicultural Festivals
Folktales build bridges to other cultures! Enrich the experience of sharing traditions for your students with this fun, easy, and practical sourcebook...
An old woman complains about all the housework she has to do, but when some fairies come to help her she finds that they are more trouble than they ar...
Stories to Sing, Dance, Drum, and Act Out
Includes twenty folktales that encourage audience participation....
Tales of ghosts inhabiting the Pacific Northwest include stories of haunted houses, departed loved ones, and disturbed Native American burial sites...
Read Along or Enhanced eBook
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Have you ever heard the saying, “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Well, Cat's stomach is bigger than a lot o...
World Folktales to Talk about
Peace Tales contains more than three dozen folktales and proverbs that illustrate these choices. Always fun to read these stories also prompt us to th...
A childless woman's prayers are answered by the arrival of a talking pot, but the new mother knows that Little Pot must learn right from wrong just li...
Twenty Lively Tales for Gentle Tellers
Collection of 20 folktales from around the world with a gentle tone including many that include singing and audience participation....
A Folktale from the Marshall Islands
A bragging contest between Whale and Sandpiper turns into a battle over the beach and sea, until both parties realize that the beach and the sea, as w...
Classroom Connections to Storytelling
This invaluable resource book includes everything teachers and librarians need to know for using storytelling in their classrooms with ready to tell t...
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Gecko may be small, but he has a giant-sized problem. Every night he is awakened by the fireflies outside his window. An...
A Folktale from Panama
In this folktale from Panama, a little rabbit and his Tia Monica outwit a fox, a tiger, and a lion, all of whom want to eat him for lunch....
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this action packed folktale from Panama, a clever little rabbit and his Tía Mónica find ways to outwit a fox, a tig...
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When a rich man is rescued from thieves by a smelly, slobbery dog, the man offers the dog any treasure is his house as a...
Tales of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
This unique and diverse selection of traditional folktales from the countries of the Arabian Peninsula appeals to a broad audience, ranging from story...
In this retelling of a Shona folktale from Zimbabwe, a girl promises a crocodile he can come to a party in exchange for a favor, but since crocodiles ...
A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children, 1983-1999
The first edition provides descriptions of folktales and references to more than 700 published sources of folktales. The new edition covers folktales ...
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Sandpiper finds her daily stroll on the beach interrupted by Whale, who boasts that he is ruler of the sea. Sandpiper re...
An African folktale about a mouse who pays close attention to her surroundings and avoids being tricked by the cat....
Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller
"With this classic storybook. revitalized for a new generation of storytellers, master storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald shares twenty timeless, eas...
The stories of some 340 holidays from over 150 countries are told, wherever possible, in quotations from books, journals, biographies, and other first...
Talk in a Southern Indiana Community
This book discusses the art of storytelling in a small community of Southern Indiana. Based on audio-taped participant observation in the rural commun...
Growing Up Among the Ngoni of Malawi
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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this timeless tale from Thailand, A girl cannot decide which of her many silken dresses and lavish jewels to wear to ...
Inspired by a Chilean Folk Tale
A cumulative tale from Chile that begins with a hen and ends with sixteen different animals and a guitar....
Quack, moo and neigh along to this riotous cumulative song that features animals of all shapes and sizes. Inspired by a folk tale from Chile, this cla...
Examining storytelling through the distinct voices of ten traditional tellers, this text offers a look at their lives and art as they discuss their re...
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: A clever, singing rabbit eats his way through the pea patch until Little Girl snatches him up and he is soon singing a n...
In this British variant of a traditional tale, an ungrateful woman who complains constantly about her house is granted increasingly grandiose wishes b...
101 Programs to Use with Preschoolers
Suggests programs for preschoolers featuring books about science, the seasons, holidays, the imagination, travel, art, and music....
101 Creative Themes to Share with Young Children
Presents thematically arranged programs featuring songs, books, poems, activities, films, art projects, and craft ideas....
Presents a collection of stories and songs adapted from folktales around the world....
A Thai Folk Tale
A Thai tale. During a fire, some bees fly into the elephants' noses and direct the elephants to safety. The beeds decide not to leave, however, and as...