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Dan Yashinsky's son Jacob died tragically in a car accident at the age of 26 when Dan fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. All his life, Jacob had struggled with Prader-Willi Syndrome, but rather than let it defeat him, he became an advocate for people suffering from PWS as well as people coping with various other disabilities. His voice has been captured and carried in this unique book, which goes beyond the terrible grief of losing a child ...

Jack has a good heart, and is a great cook--but he's not so good at following directions. With the help of a friendly fox, he finds love AND succeeds at the quest his father has set for him. But there are some pretty big pitfalls en route.

Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world, each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights.

Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world, each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights.

Long before the emergence of the printed word, human beings gathered to hear stories. These tales, carried in the head of the storyteller, ensured that a community remembered its history and its beliefs. Now our stories come from a range of sources, but there is still something magical about the spoken word. In this collection of stories and thoughts, Dan Yashinsky shares gems from his treasure trove of material. We travel from the neonatal IC...

Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Centuryby Dan YashinskyIn Suddenly They Heard Footsteps, Dan Yashinsky, one of North America's best-known storytellers, shows how an old tradition has become the new avant-garde. Storytelling is very much alive in the digital age despite the pressures of an "on-demand" society. Yashinsky admits that people no longer have to hear and retain information with the same urgency requir...

A manifesto for storytelling's future and a handbook of stories and inspiration

In this mix of midnight stories, Dan Yashinsky has collected ghost stories and other strange and scary tales from around the world. From Cathy Miyata's ghost story from Japan to Jamie Oliviero's Central African tale about the limits of grief to Gail de Vos's contemporary legend about a ghostly premonition from Canada, Ghostwise offers true stories, tall tales, and scary yarns.