Full Description
This book serves as both a textbook and reference for faculty and students in LIS courses on storytelling and a professional guide for practicing librarians, particularly youth services librarians in public and school libraries.
Storytelling: Art and Technique serves professors, students, and practitioners alike as a textbook, reference, and professional guide. It provides practical instruction and concrete examples of how to use the power of story to build literacy and presentation skills, as well as to create community in those same educational spaces.
This text illustrates the value of storytelling, covers the history of storytelling in libraries, and offers valuable guidance for bringing stories to contemporary listeners, with detailed instructions on the selection, preparation, and presentation of stories. It also provides guidance around the planning and administration of a storytelling program. Topics include digital storytelling, open mics and slams, and the neuroscience of storytelling. An extensive and helpful section of resources for the storyteller is included in an expanded Part V of this edition.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Anne Pellowski
Introduction
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD
PART I: Foundation
1The Why of Storytelling
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Melanie Kimball, PhD
2Storytelling to Children in Libraries: A History
Melanie Kimball, PhD
3The Benefits of Listening
Donna Schatt, MLS, MA, and Patrick Ryan, PhD, FEA
PART II: Practice
4Demystifying Selection
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Megan Wells, MFA
5Preparation
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Megan Wells, MFA
6Presentation: Storytelling with Music
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, Megan Wells, MFA, and Jeri Burns, PhD
7Researching Folktales
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, Karen Chace, and Priscilla Howe, MLIS
PART III: Audience
8StoryPlay: Telling Stories to Young Children
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Sujin Huggins, PhD
9Storytelling to Young Adults
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD
10From Listening to Telling: How Children and Young Adults Get Stories Off the Page; Story Theater
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Megan Wells, MFA
PART IV: Programming
11Developing Inclusive Storytelling Experiences: Storytelling to Children with Special Needs
Renee Grassi, MLIS
12Story Programming 101: Advocacy and Administration
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Sujin Huggins, PhD
13Digital Storytelling
Rebecca J. Morris, PhD
14Storytelling with Folktales: History, Community, and Appropriation
Janice M. Del Negro, PhD, and Donna Washington, MFA
PART V: Resources for the Storyteller
Professional Reading
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
