Telling tales : a guidebook & DVD

Whether you're an avid storyteller or "newbie," this new guidebook and DVD set takes you inside the art and magic of making stories come alive for young patrons. From the basics of story structure to planning and performing a story, using props, incorporating gestures, Chasse helps you expand your repertoire and build confidence in your abilities to select stories, engage listeners, and encourage a love of story performance. Chasse covers a wide spectrum of literature genres, including mythology, life-experience tales, legends, family tales, ballads, folk and fairy tales. She also explains storytelling opportunities with unique audiences, including elderly patrons, business patrons, and those in therapeutic settings. You need look no further for great information about digital storytelling, plays, puppetry, copyright issues, online resources, tale activities and more. Plus the DVD will inspire you with examples of storytelling styles by some great tellers.

Background and basics -- Locating and selecting tales -- Preparing and performing tales -- Storytelling with classical mythology -- Family tales, life experience tales, reminiscences, and oral history -- Storytelling with legends and epics -- Ballads -- Folktale country studies -- Digital storytelling -- Other resources for locating tales -- Telling tales with young people in the community and classroom -- More fun! tandem telling, plays, and puppetry -- Final considerations : storytelling course, copyright, planning tale events, storytelling as a profession, and a brief history of storytelling.