Storytelling+Resources

**//On-Line Links//**
[|The Storytellers Handbook] A good beginners spot. [|StoryArts] has a lot for storytelling in the classroom http://www.storyteller.net/http://42explore.com/story.htm http://www.storytellingfoundation.net/ [|The Network of Biblical Storytellers] There are storytellers and then there are Biblical storytellers. [|Aaron Sheppard's Storytelling Page] - Many levels- including coral reading - a great place for teachers. [|Storytelling in a Digital Age] - an excellent place to get your juices flowing about storytelling and life. [|Storytellers' Webring] - See many sites one after the other all dedicated to oral storytelling. [|National Storytelling Festival] - probably responsible for the widespread resurgence of storytelling.

**//Books Worth Checking Out//**
Bauer, Caroline F, **//Celebrations.//** This book offers holidays - stories and activities, games and poems. **//Handbook for storytellers.//** Everything you might need to get started is included. Greene, Eloise and Baker Augusta, **//The art of storytelling//**. A great sourcebook for the novice or experienced teller. Augusta Baker was head of Children's Services at New York Public for years! Mallett, Jerry. **//Stories to Draw.//** Think you can’t tell stories or draw this boo proves you wrong! Livo, Norma. **//Joining In.//** A great collection of audience participation stories and how to tell them. Sawyer, Ruth. **//The way of the storyteller//**. A classic in storytelling literature. Schimmel, Nancy. **//Just enough to make a story//**. Excellent book to get you started. Shedlock, Marie. **The art of the storyteller**. Another Classic by one of the early story tellers of this century. Shedlock worked at the New York Public Library under Sawyer and saw to it that story hours became a regular at public libraries everywhere. Warren, Jean. **//Cut and tell.//** These are soo easy. They use paper plates and the kids love them. They come in the following flavors;  stories for Fall, Winter, Spring. Wolkstein, Diane. **//The magic orange tree.//** Wonderful stories from the Caribbean.