Storytelling With Puppets, Preps & Playful Tales
Nationally known Mary Jo Huff is a multi-award winning early childhood educator, storyteller, author, recording artist, keynote speaker and consultant devoted to children and the art of storytelling. She has a passion for all children and understands the importance of promoting good listening skills and often shares with children how to telling a good story will lead to better writers and readers in our society.  She has trained teachers nationwide on the importance of language and literacy through the power of telling stories. Mary Jo is the author of seven resource books for early childhood and has recorded three multi- award-winning, interactive CD's with stories, songs, and finger plays.  Her book, STORYTELLING WITH PUPPETS, PROPS, AND PLAYFUL TALES, has received the coveted Pegasus award from the National Youth Storytelling Network.  Mary Jo has 30 years of experience and a passion for the power and importance of storytelling and how it relates to young children. She has a magical humor in her high-energy performance and lively mix of rhythm and rhyme for any storytime.  "After 30 plus years in Early Childhood education, Mary Jo says, it is time to give back and to share all the wonderful ideas that have worked. Her experience is vast and she believes in the power of oral language as a literacy, math, science and social connection for children and adults." Join Mary Jo as she shares her version of many old and new stories.