Starting Points: Guide to Storytelling

Nonfiction   l  Children's  l   Audio   l   Videos  l   Additional Material  l    Web Sites
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Nonfiction - 3rd Floor  

Storytelling - Art and Technique - 372.64 Bak                 

Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller - 372.64 Mac               
                                                                                      
Creative Storytelling - 372.64 Mag               

The Way of the Storyteller - 372.64 Saw                  

Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play - 372.642 Lip               

The Power of Personal Storytelling: Spinning Tales to Connect with Others - 372.642 Mag                      
                                               
The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival - 372.642 Sob                    

                                                  
Tales with Tails: Storytelling the Wonders of the Natural World - 372.7 Str

Bringing the Story Home: The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents - 649.58 Lip

 
Children's Department  - 2nd Floor

Tell Me a Story - Creating Bedtime Tales Your Children Will Dream On - PS 372.64 Col                   

Storytime Theme-a-saurus - The Great Big Book of Storytime Teaching Themes - PS 372.64 War     

Once upon a time: using storytelling, creative drama, and reader’s theater with children in grades preK-6 - PS 372.642 Fre

The Storytelling Handbook - A Young People's Collection of Unusual Tales and Helpful Hints on How to Tell Them - j372.642 Pel

     

Audio-Visual Room  - 2nd Floor

  The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture - AC 808.543 Ful

     
   
  Videos - 3rd Floor

Storytelling: Learning and Sharing - Video 372.642 Sto

Finding Additional Material

Dewey Decimal browsing numbers: 372.64, 398.2
In addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way to find good sources of information is to do a subject search in our Library catalog. You can access the Library catalog from the Library or from your home computer by going to our Web page (www.wppl.org), then to Search Our Catalog.  A good subject search for this topic is storytelling.

eBooks
Visit EBSCOhost to search the collection of thousands of eBooks the Library has to offer. Library card required. Contact a reference librarian for additional details.

Articles
The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing with your topic:

·            The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature - Adult Reference  R 050 R
       Search for articles on a subject within any given year.

       Literature Resource Center, EBSCOhost, and Infotrac Onefile  - Access from the Library or at home using your library card
       number at www.wppl.org.  Search for full-text articles in these online databases using your choice of keywords. You can limit the search to a
       certain year or even a certain magazine.

Web Sites

Aaron Shepard’s Home Page: Resources for teachers, librarians, storytellers, kids, and children’s writers.                              

American Folklore: Retellings of American folktales, Native American myths, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from all 50 United States.  Includes categories for “Tall Tales,” “Myths and Legends,” “Spooky Stories,” “Children’s Stories,” and more.  Also a link for lesson plans.    
National Storytelling Network: Dedicated to advancing the art of storytelling - as a performing art, teaching aid, and cultural transformation process. 
      

Stories to Tell to Children: Provides a list of stories and tips on how to tell them.

Story Arts Online: Articles on how and why to tell stories; lesson plans and activities; folktale resources; a webography of storytelling and language arts sites. 
      

Storytelling Web sites and Resources: Extensive collection of informative Internet sites that explain, exemplify and advise on the art of storytelling. 

Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources for Storytellers: Advice, resources, information, links, articles, FAQs, stories, and information on the oral tradition and the art of storytelling.

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