Storytelling and Story Creating in the classroom
Children Tell Stories, an award-winning 288 page book by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, comes with a companion DVD showing demonstrations of storytelling use in classrooms, as well as 25 printable stories. Aimed at teachers of grades K-8, this Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice Award-winning book/DVD provides clear and detailed directions for teaching storytelling. This resource offers extensive tips for integrating storytelling into the curriculum, shows how storytelling links to state standards, and provides extensive bibliographies for all aspects of storytelling.
Uncle Remus' stories feature a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit ("Brother" Rabbit), who uses his wits to slide out of trouble and gain the advantage over the slower witted other animals, many of whom are trying to eat him. Br'er Rabbit stories were mostly collected directly from the afro-american oral story-telling tradition and are said to be a direct interpretation of Yoruba tales of Hare. This book contains 11 unique stories and was the last one published before the author's death.