Promotional video created for KCPL. At Your Library by Bill Harley © 2005 Round River Records, used with permission www.billharley.com
This video is part of my third LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is intended for use in a storytelling program for teens. The story Trematodes and Toxoplasma is taken from chapters 2 & 4 from Peeps by Scott Westerfeld.
This video is part of my third LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is intended for use in a storytelling program for teens. The story The Peasant and the Vampire is a Russian vampire legend from Real Vampires by Daniel Cohen.
This video is part of my third LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is intended for use in a storytelling program for teens. The poem, "...and although the little mermaid sacrificed everything to win the love of the prince, the prince, alas, decided to wed another..." is from If I Were in Charge of the World by Judith Viorst.
This story, adapted from the chapter "Patty Cannon: Kidnapper, Murder, Ghost?" Ed Okonowicz's In The Vestibule, was told and recorded as part of a storytelling presentation for adults for LIBR 281 at SJSU SLIS.
This video is part of my first LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is designed to be told to children ages 4-10. This story is based on the book The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza. I wasn't sure I was going to use this one, but wanted to experiment with puppets, so I gave it a go. Since the vast puppet collection at work doesn't include either a wolf or a chicken (I could hardly believe it!), I decided a fox and a rooster would serve just as well for my version (though, ideally, the original char...
This video is part of my first LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is designed to be told to children ages 8-10, though could also be used/adapted for 6-7 and 11-12. This story is based on the book You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer by Shana Corey. It is one of the few biographical books I have found which is accessible to young children. I chose it because I'm really interested in the application of storytelling as a way to transmit nonfiction. While I stayed true to the original story, I did add...
This video is part of my first LIBR 281-10 presentation. It is designed to be told to children ages 6-10, though it would also work well for family presentations, adult discussions of folktale motifs and, if cut a bit, 3- to 5-year-olds. This telling is based on the book Fat Cat by Margaret Read MacDonald which is a retelling of a traditional Danish folktale. In the book's "Tale Notes," she identifies it as a retelling of the folktale Motif Z33.2 The Fat Cat. I remember a similar tale from whe...