Stories in My Pocket: Tales Kids Can Tell
Gr. 4^-7. A strong collection of 30 tales for beginning storytellers, conveniently arranged according to the difficulty of the telling. Among those included are Aesop fables and such favorites as "Tilly," which is designed to make an audience jump at the end. The introductory material, written directly to student tellers, contains advice on how to remember stories and develop characters, along with tips on working out the difficulties of telling stories to live audiences. Story text, broken into segments, appears on one side of the page, with suggestions for actions and gestures on the other side. A few guidelines for adults--event planning and handling stage fright, for example--are also included. Source notes cite multiple variants for most tales.Karen Morgan