Bringing it Alive!

Storytelling in English Teaching

British Council, Macedonia 14th-15th
June 2013

Course Follow-up: More books on storytelling and story

sources
This list includes the titles I brought for the course, plus references to one or two more. There
are many more such books, and looking for the ones below will give you directions for finding
other ones. Be prepared to read a few books of stories before you find ones you really want to
tell!

More Books about Storytelling:

Colwell, Eileen Storytelling (A classic from a UK storyteller and librarian)
Watts, E Storytelling (simple, practical book)

Especially useful for Stories in English Language Teaching:

Barton, B & Booth, D Stories in the Classroom
Ellis, Gail Tell it Again (relates stories to the while curriculum)
Morgan, J and Rinvolucri, M Once upon a Time (the first book of this kind, from 1983)
Paran, A & Watts, E Storytelling in ELT (published by IATEFL)
Phillips, S Young Learners
Wright, Andrew Creating Stories with Children
Wright, Andrew Storytelling with children (mentioned in the course)

Some sources of stories to tell:

Corbett, Pie The Gingerbread Man (texts of stories, plus audio CD)
Corbett, Pie Storyteller, for ages 4-7 (teachers book for the title above; with
DVD)
Cvetanovska, Danica (& others) The Moon in the Well and other Macedonian folk Tales
Holt, David & Mooney, Bill Spiders in the Hairdo (Urban Legends for older children)
Laird, Elizabeth A Fistful of Pearls, and other tales from Iraq (one of many by
country)
Lupton, Hugh Tales of Wisdom and Wonder (and more collections by this
author)
MacDonald, Margaret Read Five Minute Tales (plus many others by the author, a US
storyteller)
Schwartz, Alvin Scary Stories to tell in the Dark (one of a series of US
campfire stories)
Thomas, Taffy & Killick, Steve Telling Tales (subtitled Storytelling as Emotional Literacy)

There are many more books of story sources. Try UK publishers such as Barefoot Books, Frances
Lincoln, and Watts and be prepared to hunt down out-of-print collections, through second hand
sources such as Amazon, ABE Books, and The Book Depository below.

Extra websites suggested during the course:

British Councils English Teaching http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/
British Council Brit Lit pages http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/britlit
You Publish (online stories) http://www.issuu.com/
Rosetta Project (Childrens Books) http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm
The Book Depository (free delivery)http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
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