Her work was very helpful in defining story structure, providing specific suggestions for delivery, preparing for delivery, and for dealing with the audience. I do feel this is an excellent basic handbook and references source. I had check out several books of international fairty tales. I quickly found out that I am not, in general, going to be telling many fairy tales. The few I had looked at were plot and character complicated.
Folktales have clear plot lines and fewer characters, and are shorter, therefore easier to tell.