Storytelling Folklore Sourcebook

(Paperback)

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Packed with folktales, poetry, aphorisms, songs, and legends, this comprehensive sourcebook is appropriate for use with upper elementary and secondary students or as a resource for the professional storyteller. The source material covers costumes, customs, dances and drama, food, games, and legends, as well as forms of oral literature (music, proverbs, rhymes, riddles, tales, beliefs, and superstitions). An extensive guide to the world's folklore, it is ideal as a resource for creative writing projects.

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"A valuable resource for teachers, artists, writers, performers, and those interested in exploring the origins of ideas."-Bloomsbury Review
A valuable resource for teachers, artists, writers, performers, and those interested in exploring the origins of ideas.-Bloomsbury Review
A voluminous compendium of everything related to storytelling.-Library Talk
An invaluable tool for any small or medium-sized library doing children's or folklore reference work.-School Library Journal
Contents include information of the technique of storytelling, customs, heroes, cultural artifacts, and patterns.-Elementary School Library Collection
Opens new vistas for the storyteller and will help him or her escape from the cuteness that has dominated the field for a remarkably long time.-Australian Library Review
"A voluminous compendium of everything related to storytelling."-Library Talk
"An excellent source filled with cultural resources...Guaranteed to make for fascinating reading...Highly recommended."-Emergency Librarian
"An invaluable tool for any small or medium-sized library doing children's or folklore reference work."-School Library Journal
"Contents include information of the technique of storytelling, customs, heroes, cultural artifacts, and patterns."-Elementary School Library Collection
"Opens new vistas for the storyteller and will help him or her escape from the cuteness that has dominated the field for a remarkably long time."-Australian Library Review

Author Bio

Norma J. Livo, Professor Emerita, University of Colorado, Denver is the author and co-author of numerous books, many of them award-winners, including Storytelling: Process & Practice (Libraries Unlimited, 1986), Folk Stories of the Hmong (Libraries Unlimited, 1991), and Bringing Out Their Best (Libraries Unlimited, 2003). She served on the board of the National Storytelling Association, and is Founder of the Rocky Mountain Storytelling Conference. She has a national following as a storyteller and received NSN's 2002 ORACLE Award for Lifetime Achievement in storytelling.