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World Folklore For Storytellers : Tales Of Wonder, Wisdom, Fools, And Heroes

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Josepha Sherman, editor
Publication Details
Book, M.E. Sharpe, 2010
Description
Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Folklore · Classification · Folk literature · History and criticism · Storytelling · Oral tradition · Sherman, Josepha
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Kiviuq : An Inuit Hero And His Siberian Cousins

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Kira Van Deusen
Publication Details
Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009
Description
After decades exploring Siberian cultures, Kira Van Deusen turned to the Canadian north to ask many such questions, looking at them through the versions of one of their most respected legends - that of hero/shaman Kiviuq, an Inuit counterpart to Homer’s “Odysseus” - told by forty Inuit elders. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Inuit · Nunavut · Folklore · Legends · Russia · Siberia · Shamanism · Storytelling · Kiviuq (Legendary character) · Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E99.E7 V36 2009 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E99.E7 V36 2009	AVAILABLE

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A Partisan’s Daughter

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Louis de Bernières
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Book, 1st U.S. ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Description
She?s Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito?s partisans. And although she?s not a hooker, when she?s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She?s a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Middle-aged men · Fiction · Young women · Serbs · England · London · Nineteen seventies · Storytelling · London (England) · Social life and customs · De Bernières, Louis
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6054.E132 P37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6054.E132 P37 2008	AVAILABLE

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Digital Storytelling In The Classroom : New Media Pathways To Literacy, Learning, And Creativity

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Jason Ohler ; foreword by David Thornburg
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Book, Corwin Press, 2008
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Integrating digital storytelling with instruction becomes a creative opportunity for both novice and technologically experienced educators when using Jason Ohler’s Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Ohler links digital storytelling to improving traditional, digital, and media literacy, and guides teachers on how to empower students to tell stories in their own native language: new media and multimedia. Aligned with NCTE standards and covering important copyright and fair use information, this text provides information on integrating storytelling into curriculum design and using the principles of storytelling as a measurement of learning and literacies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Storytelling · Data processing · Literature and technology · Internet in education · Digital storytelling · Ohler, Jason
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(LOWER LEVEL) LB1042 .O37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	LB1042 .O37 2008	AVAILABLE

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Mister Pip

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Lloyd Jones
Publication Details
Book, Dial Press, 2007
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Description
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens?s classic Great Expectations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Books and reading · Fiction · Storytelling · Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) · Jones, Lloyd, 1955-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR9639.3.J644 M57 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR9639.3.J644 M57 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Story Is True : The Art And Meaning Of Telling Stories

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Bruce Jackson
Publication Details
Book, Temple University Press, 2007
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- Table of contents only
- Contributor biographical information
Description
In The Story Is True, author, filmmaker, and photographer Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Narration (Rhetoric) · Storytelling · Tales · United States · Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN212 .J33 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PN212 .J33 2007	AVAILABLE

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The Anatomy Of Story : 22 Steps To Becoming A Master Storyteller

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John Truby
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Faber and Faber, 2007
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Description
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood?s most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Motion picture authorship · Storytelling · Truby, John, 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PN1996 .T78 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PN1996 .T78 2007	AVAILABLE

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Clinical Education, Storytelling And Perceptions Of Experience From Athletic Training Students An Interpretative Phenomenology

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Jack Plank Tells Tales

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Natalie Babbitt
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic, 2007
Description
Yes, Jack Plank stared out to be a pirate. Jack did the only thing he could do-he went ashore to look for another line of work. The town was called saltwash, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, and he had a lot of helpful advice from the people in Mrs. DelFresno’s boardinghouse. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Pirates · Juvenile fiction · Storytelling · Babbitt, Natalie
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 B112j AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 B112j	AVAILABLE

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The Amnesia Clinic

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James Scudamore
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Harcourt, 2006
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Description
Before long, the relationship between these two fifteen-year-olds becomes one conducted entirely through the medium of storytelling, and they lose sight of the boundaries between fact and fiction. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Best friends · Fiction · Teenage boys · Storytelling · Scudamore, James, 1976-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6119.C39 A46 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6119.C39 A46 2006	AVAILABLE

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Ten Traditional Tellers

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Margaret Read MacDonald
Publication Details
Book, University of Illinois Press, 2006
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- Table of contents
Description
A fascinating insider?s look at the lives, cultures, and stories of tellers from around the world In this unique collection of stories and personal interviews, folklorist Margaret Read MacDonald examines storytelling through the distinct voices of the tellers themselves. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Tales · Cross-cultural studies · Storytelling · MacDonald, Margaret Read, 1940-
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(LOWER LEVEL) GR67 .M23 2006 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GR67 .M23 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Book Thief

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by Markus Zusak
Publication Details
Book, 1st American ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
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- Publisher description
Description
It?s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Books and reading · Fiction · Storytelling · Death · Jews · Germany · History · 1933-1945 · World War, 1939-1945 · Rescue · Juvenile fiction · Zusak, Markus
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 Z967b DUE 02-08-10

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 Z967b	DUE 02-08-10

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The Dawning Of The Day : A Jerusalem Tale

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Haim Sabato ; translated by Yaacob Dweck
Publication Details
Book, Toby, 2006
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Storytelling · Fiction · Family · Religion · Jerusalem · Sabato, Hayim
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(UPPER LEVEL) PJ5055.4.A24 K43 2006 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PJ5055.4.A24 K43 2006	AVAILABLE

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The Adventures Of Marco Polo

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by Russell Freedman ; with illustrations by Bagram Ibatoulline ; accompanied by archival, period artwork
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, A.A. Levine Books, 2006
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Polo, Marco, · 1254-1323? · Pictorial works · Juvenile literature · Juvenile literature · Explorers · Italy · Biography · Storytelling · Travel, Medieval · Asia · Description and travel · Freedman, Russell
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 910.4 F853a AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	910.4 F853a	AVAILABLE

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Singing Story, Healing Drum : Shamans And Storytellers Of Turkic Siberia

Attribution
Kira Van Deusen
Publication Details
Book, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
Description
Singing Story, Healing Drum explores the shamanic practices, worldview, oral traditions, and music of the Turkic peoples of Tuva and Khakassia (south Siberia), past and present. Set in the context of social change in the post-Soviet period, it includes conversations, folktales, legends, adn shamanic poems that illuminate spiritual traditions, and introduces ethnographic literature in Russian, mostly unavailable in the West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Tuvinians · Folklore · Khakassians · Music · History and criticism · Religion · Shamanism · Russia · Siberia · Storytelling · Tuva (Russia) · Social life and customs · Khakasskaia respublika (Russia) · Van Deusen, Kira, 1946-
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(LOWER LEVEL) GR345 .V357 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GR345 .V357 2004	AVAILABLE

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